Word: detroit
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...auto companies and academics who have heard of this design think the Rosens are spinning their wheels. Of course, the auto companies thought the Japanese didn't have a clue either, but they've also invested billions of dollars in flywheel technology without coming up with much. Says Harold: "Detroit never took hybrids seriously. They weren't thinking broadly enough." Chrysler tried, and failed, to field a race car with a turbo-flywheel power train (the engine and transmission) a couple of years...
...carbon fibers into shrapnel. "In the final analysis, the design needs a lot of work on housing and containment. I don't think he has the ultimate power train. No disrespect intended. This is simply an observation that these guys with very limited funds are trying to do what Detroit did over decades." Chrysler's flywheel failure mirrors these concerns...
This is not a vision that anyone in Detroit shares. Instead, the industry is working closely with Rosen competitors like U.S. Flywheel, Trinity Flywheel and Unique Mobility. That's a badge of honor to Harold and Ben, who are clearly thrilled to be working together. When they were younger, Ben was very much the little brother walking devotedly in the older brother's footsteps: he followed Harold to Cal Tech, and then to Raytheon Corp. in the 1950s, when Ben got his very first job working for his brother, building missiles. Their paths diverged when Ben went East...
...Lester Weiss, a geneticist based in Detroit, spends much of his time these days "visiting" his patients via telephone. He calls not to chat but to analyze the details of their care through telemedicine links between Henry Ford Hospital and clinics across rural Michigan. Weiss runs Ford Hospital's Genetics and Birth Defects Center, a regional research hub. Telemedical technology brings his world-class experience to locales hundreds of miles afield--and to more than one place at once...
Sitting in his office, Weiss scans a computer-enhanced image of a newborn baby lying in intensive care in Saginaw, Michigan, 100 miles north of Detroit. The child was born wrapped inside a rare membrane that causes its skin to peel away in gobs, leaving the baby dangerously exposed to infection. Viewing a high-resolution picture of the youngster sent to the hospital and displayed on a PC, Weiss is able to diagnose the condition, known as lamellar ichthyosis, and suggest a treatment. "It was pretty horrendous," he says of the infant's condition. "But we were able to tell...