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eBay Find of the Day: Rocket-powered electric bike

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 propane-fed turbine engine which spins at up to 112,000 revolutions per minute and produces forty-five pounds of thrust. The electric motor is powered by twenty-four volts of juice and is said to be good for eighteen miles per hour for up to twenty miles. ... Read more →

Biodiesel turbine, super capacitor, series hybrid... HUMMER! (60 MPG and 0-60 in 5 seconds) Lascelles Linton

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 ...

New York Metro Transit Authority testing micro-turbine hybrid bus Sam Abuelsamid

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 ...

Unmanned flying ambulances using ducted fans for efficiency Jeremy Korzeniewski

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 ...

Friday Humor: The world's fastest port-a-potty Jeremy Korzeniewski

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 ...

The Chrysler Patriot hybrid drive Le Mans racer from the mid-90s 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Click to enlarge The 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 ...

Tides of change: San Francisco to study use of underwater turbines to generate power 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

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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