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...Intelligent Energy Availability: In early 2007, for less than $10,000 To Learn More: envbike.com The ENV bike looks like a muscular motorcycle but runs more like a moped. Weighing in at 200 lbs., the aluminum bike travels at speeds of up to 50 m.p.h. on its hydrogen-powered fuel-cell engine. Project director Andy Eggleston says that proprietary technology allows the fuel cell to produce more energy than is typical. The ENV runs silently on a 5-oz. canister of hydrogen that costs about $4 and can power the bike for 100 miles. The drawback? California is the only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best Inventions 2005: Roll With It | 11/13/2005 | See Source »

...some sort of modern businessman, and utterly failing to explicitly categorize him in the class of anti-Islamic raving psychopathic murderers to which he belongs. Carl Templin Johannesburg As a veteran of operation Iraqi freedom, I believe that articles about the insurgents and how they train suicide bombers only fuel the terrorists' desire to carry out destruction. Why not report on the good things the U.S. is achieving in Iraq and Afghanistan and what our families back home are sacrificing for the freedom of others? Sergeant Robert E. Williamson Jr. U.S. Army Reserves Hobart, Indiana, U.S. The Agony of Kashmir...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living Better Longer | 11/12/2005 | See Source »

CLEAN CAR General Motors' AUTOnomy concept vehicle is powered by fuel cells instead of an engine. All that comes out of the tailpipe is non-polluting water vapor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Global Visions | 11/9/2005 | See Source »

...every five years, was also a multinational take on what the future might be, with innovations ranging from the practical to the preposterous. Utensils at the food court were made of biodegradable plastic, and electricity was generated by an eco-friendly onsite system (even the garbage was used for fuel). And while the theme in Aichi was Nature's Wisdom, many of the 22 million visitors who flocked to the expo between March and September met robots that could sing, subtract or speak four languages. Shanghai will be the host of the next expo, in 2010. Here are some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Global Visions | 11/9/2005 | See Source »

GREEN ROOM Japan's pavilion, built with recycled materials, had solar air conditioning, geothermal heat and microbe-powered fuel cells...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Global Visions | 11/9/2005 | See Source »

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