Industrial Air Compressors
The main home of compressed air is in industry where as much as 20% of electricity is used to power air compressors. It is a safe, economical and effective way of transferring power that is yet to be bettered.
In industry air is used to control pneumatics, operate powered tools, operate production lines, used as part of paint spraying processes, used in conveying processes, you name it, in industry almost all processes require compressed air which is why it is refereed to as the 4th utility (the other three being gas, water and electricity).