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eBay find of the day: Bradley GT powered by a jet engine

Let's get this straight right off the bat: this is not a green car. But, since we've shown you Jay Leno's EcoJet, we thought that you might like to take a look at something along those same lines... only much, much cheaper! Like Leno's EcoJet, which is based on the underpinnings of a modern Corvette, the Bradley GT is a kit car based on the running gear of the ubiquitous Volkswagen Beetle. In the case of this one on eBay, though, that original air-cooled horizontally-opposed four cylinder is no longer present. In its place happens to be a jet ... Read more →

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Dennis Bushnell is the chief scientist at NASA's Langley Research Center in Virginia, so what he says should probably be given some credence. Bushnell is saying that we could be powering aircraft with biomass from saltwater plants, or halophytes, grown in the desert. Bushnell said, "This is ...

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