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...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...
...flywheel, but so does braking, which in today's cars produces energy that is lost. The same goes for fuel. With a catalytic "combustor" on the turbine that burns gas more efficiently, the power train will produce what is, by EPA standards, "zero emissions." According to the Rosens, the turbo-flywheel combination will at least double the gas mileage of the car in which it is used, produce a satisfying sound not unlike that of a Lear Jet (albeit far quieter), and push a Mercedes-Benz from 0 to 60 in a tidy six seconds flat, 0.6 seconds faster than...
TIME: Borland [another Microsoft competitor] charges that you used vaporware [the preannouncement of a nonexistent product] to screw up the development of Turbo BASIC. Which you did, right...
Over the weekend, about a dozen American Eagle pilots refused to fly ATR-72 turbo prop jets -- the model that crashed in Indiana a month ago -- believing that they are unsafe in cold, rainy weather, according to a report today in the Chicago Tribune. The management of American Eagle said a number of Sunday's flights had been cancelled. Meanwhile, the Association of Flight Attendants made public a letter sent last week to American Eagle expressing its members' safety concerns surrounding the planes. The flight attendants requested the airline ground the planes during icy weather until a federal review...
What's the surest thing to come after Christmas? If you said taxes, you were on the right track. For parents who enjoy doing their own taxes (such as is the case with mine), "Turbo Tax '93" and "MacIn Tax," both from Chipsoft, will no doubt be received warmly (if not as a reminder of a tough tax season...