jet-powered VW-BUG, I want one now !

What an absolute waste of good engineering know-how. After all the time and money spent, the guy could have had an EV for every member of his family. With his resources and ingenuity, those EVs could have been developed to cruise at 70 MPH and have a range of 200 miles or more between charges.

Instead, he has developed something that cannot be used, other than an occasional drive around some race track with no other vehicles anywhere near. All he has really accomplished is to find yet another way to burn fossil fuel, contaminate the atmosphere, and add noise.

You sound like a fun guy!

I am, but wastefulness kind of dampens my humor - especially when it affects the environment.

Did you ever think that this may be useful? Maybe it would revolutionize aviation or something. Guys like you are fixated on the past and want us to go back to the dark ages in the name of the environment (lets all ride bicycles instead of driving cars). There is no proof that man has as much as an effect on the environment that most greenie weenies say, but they get instant media credibility every time they open their mouths with no proof or supporting evidence of their claims.

Here is a good example, nuclear power could provide an exponential amount of power over regular power plants, but the weenies claim it was unsafe, can't do anything with the waste, etc. Nobody ever sought to construct a Cherynobyl type plant, and the waste can be disposed of properly but not by killing any attempt at research.

Instead we get all the doubletalk and false claims that make these bozos seem smart when they say "save the planet". How stupid would they sound if they kept saying they were going to "save the world"? We are talking about the same thing. As long as China and most of Europe pollute as they do, there is no way the world will be cleaner if the US just shut down everything tomorrow.

Sonny, you have a lot to learn. I am an engineer who has been in aviation when you were still in diapers. I participated in the Apollo program and the Space Shuttle, and helped develop the electronics that led to calculators, personal computers, and the cell phones that you probably have stuck in your ear every minute of the day.

So don't tell me what is useful, what might work, and what might affect the environment. You just don't have a clue. Meanwhile, try opening your mind to the real data. Politics has nothing to do with it, facts do.

You and Al Gore.