Would Bill, could Bill Gates get behind this sort of technology and

[HysteryDiagnosis]

DRIVE it forward?? If he really wanted to help turn things around and perhaps keep ocean levels down he might consider this sort of startup as a good place to put $$, or perhaps he could just buy it up and make it his own, either way the environment wins. Of course, if you are going down the road and your windshield turns blue with some cryptic warning it could be a problem.

http://www.evworld.com/article.cfm?storyid=1294
Open Access Article Originally Published: July 20, 2007

These three gentlemen have a secret. They are planning to bring affordable electric cars to the rest of us.

The group that is working to bring Mexico City a thousand or more converted electric Nissan Tsurus (See "Viva la R-EV-olucion!"), is also quietly working on a new program, this one tailored specifically for United States drivers. While I am not at liberty to disclose all the details of the program, Electro Autos Eficaces de Mexico's representatives have granted me permission to release some generic information about it.

Victor Juarez and Xavier Niebla, who is one of the partners in EAE in Mexico City, were in Portland last week to arrange for MetricMind, a small, but highly-respected conversion shop, to convert what Juarez describes as a "modern, 3,000 pound, four door, family sedan with full services" from gasoline to all-electric drive. And it won't be a bare bones model like the Tsuru's in Mexico City. It will have the usual options most U.S. drivers have come to expect in an automobile: air conditioner, power steering, power brakes, electric door locks, stereo sound system.

[Deja Q]

1. If he's truly philanthropic, yes.

Which means there's a chance he actually would. He's done other good things, I cannot deny that.

(I'm trying to curtail my usual sense of cynicism; that's poison to the soul and as I use, and recently have been applauding some Microsoft products, I really can't be cynical after a certain point...)

[HysteryDiagnosis]

2. Me too, XP was a breath of fresh air, that new one not so much. On

the same lines as the electric car, from the same site I found this, Tesla would be proud.

http://www.evworld.com/article.cfm?archive=1&storyid=1248&first=5583&end=5582

Faster Supersonic Flight
The electrically powered engine that could theoretically propel an aircraft to a flight speed of Mach 1.5 could be modified to operate at higher speed. The engine intake would be modified to an "Oswatitsch" design with variable geometry. That design would generate (weaker) oblique shock waves at the entrance to the engine as well as be able to "dump" excess air or duct in extra air depending on flight conditions.

The faster engine may use a single-spool axial flow compressor that has more pressure ratio (up to 15 to 1 with variable stator blades) to raise air temperature. The aircraft may carry water in special tanks and electrolysis gear to generate hydrogen that may be injected ahead of the nozzle of the engine. The combustion of the hydrogen would increase the air temperature and raise the exit velocity of the gas that leaves the engine. Flight speeds of Mach 2 to Mach 2.4 may be possible.