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    Capstone Turbine Developing Series Hybrid Concept Trucks
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    When you're partnering up to build a green vehicle, Kenworth and Peterbilt may not exactly be the first names that come to mind, but those over-the-road heavyweights are exactly the companies that Capstone Turbine is working with to generate new concepts. Working with these companies, Capstone ...

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    Capstone, CalMotors to offer full-line of hybrid electric microturbine systems
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    Capstone Turbine Corporation, manufacturer of microturbine energy systems, has announced they're partnering with CalMotors, maker of traction drive systems, to offer a full line of turbine-powered Hybrid Electric Drive Solutions. The two companies plan to produce systems for small-to-mid-size ...

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    eBay Find of the Day: Rocket-powered electric bike
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    The modern definition of a hybrid vehicle is any single machine with multiple sources of power. Usually, this means one internal combustion engine and one electric motor with batteries. This is again the case with the Biohazard Jet Bike, though its internal combustion engine happens to be a ...

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    Biodiesel turbine, super capacitor, series hybrid... HUMMER! (60 MPG and 0-60 in 5 seconds)
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    Johnathan Goodwin is the patron saint of green cars (although as of yet, this honor has gone unrecognized by the Vatican). Last April, John was the guy behind the Chevy Impala conversion that smoked a Lamborghini in a quarter mile on the Earth Day special of MTV's Pimp My Ride. Arnold ...

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    New York Metro Transit Authority testing micro-turbine hybrid bus
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    digg_url = 'http://digg.com/environment/New_York_Metro_Transit_Authority_testing_micro_turbine_hybrid_bus'; In New York City the Metropolitan Transit Authority has started testing a new hybrid bus, but this one is different from existing models. Rather than using a conventional diesel engine and ...

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    Unmanned flying ambulances using ducted fans for efficiency
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    Ducted fans are an efficient way to power flying vehicles, but the devices remain largely unproduced because of problems with the control and reliability of their mechanisms. Most flying machines suffer from teething pains like this when they are still in their infancy. Jet turbines are a ...

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    Friday Humor: The world's fastest port-a-potty
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    digg_url = 'http://digg.com/environment/Amazing_Picture_World_s_Fastest_Porta_Potty'; We have brought you stories of turning poo into power. We have shown that human waste can be converted to biofuel. And today, we show you the world's fastest port-a-potty. 'Cause when you gotta go, you gotta ...

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    The Chrysler Patriot hybrid drive Le Mans racer from the mid-90s
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    Click to enlargeThe Audi R10 and Peugeot 908 have garnered an enormous amount of attention for their diesel powered efforts at Le Mans in the last two years but they are by no means the first attempts at alternative power-trains for race cars. One of the more interesting if ultimately unsuccessful ...

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    Tides of change: San Francisco to study use of underwater turbines to generate power
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    While wind turbines provide a clean source of energy, they still have a number of short-comings as well as vocal opponents who often come from the sore-sight front. San Francisco, which probably wouldn't have the space for a field of wind turbines anyway, is proposing to decrease the city's ...

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