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...engine, no steering column and no brake pedal. It requires no gasoline, emits no pollution (just a little water vapor) and yet handles like a high-performance Porsche. It might sound like an environmentalist's fantasy, but there it was on display at the Paris Auto Show last September: the Hy-wire, a politically correct, fully functional prototype that General Motors claims could be road ready by 2010. Other car manufacturers--including Toyota, Honda and Ford--are working on post-fossil-fuel automobiles, but only GM has rethought the car from the ground up, adopting an impressive array of advanced...
...what the Vapir heralds as the very “essence of plant.” With the use of infrared rays, convection currents and its own microprocessor, the Vapir is capable of heating herbs to temperatures up to 400 degrees Fahrenheit, releasing the herb as a barely visible vapor mist rather than as smoke...
...room, wearing Afghan-style pants and slippers. Two men are speaking softly in Arabic. "Let's do this fast," says one. As they leave, a thin cloud of white smoke crawls into the picture. The dog stands on all fours, but its legs buckle. As the vapor rises, the dog topples onto its side, shrieking and writhing. For the next minute, the video shows the dog in the throes of death; the animal moans until finally its shaking tail falls still...
...room, wearing Afghan-style pants and slippers. Two men are speaking softly in Arabic. "Let?s do this fast," says one. As they leave, a thin cloud of white smoke crawls into the picture. The dog stands on all fours, but its legs buckle. As the vapor rises, the dog topples onto its side, shrieking and writhing. For the next minute, the video shows the dog in the throes of death; the animal moans until finally its shaking tail falls still...
...chemical reaction between a hydrogen-containing fuel and oxygen. Fuel cells have been around for decades in exotic applications, powering satellites and spacecraft. They are being developed for commercial use in electric cars and to provide backup electricity for buildings (a truly "green" technology: their only emissions are water vapor and heat). Strapping a power plant to a mobile phone once seemed a silly idea?early prototypes for portable fuel cells were as ungainly as a pair of clogs?but miniaturization has reached the stage where consumers might buy into the concept...