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If high energy prices are a virtual tax on consumers, low-and-getting-lower ones are a virtual tax cut, not only for consumers but airlines, shipping and anybody else that uses the ol? internal combustion engine to get themselves or their products around. Cheap oil is an economic stimulus...
The best clue to Kamen's intentions may be the patent application he filed in late 2000 for a series of self-balancing "personal mobility vehicles." It's known that Kamen and his colleagues have been working for years on a clean, sealed-combustion Stirling engine that could run on...
Surf's not up? Chill, dude; the PowerSki Jetboard makes its own waves. Driven by a two-stroke engine that generates 350 lbs. of thrust, the Jetboard can carve up even the glassiest surface in a sport that combines the ease of water skiing with the freedom of surfing. The...
At the abandoned Taliban checkpoints, my driver would slow down without stopping, shout something to the new guards, and speed away. At one such checkpoint, he found some of his old friends. He got out of the car and hugged each one. At another checkpoint, another friend of the driver...
The early days of accident investigations are full of fog and frustration - and the energy of curiosity. The current National Transportation Safety Board search for answers in the crash of American Airlines Flight 587, which killed 262 people, is all of the above. Only more so. Usually some aspect of...