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Well, it looks like some sort of personal movement device... like a motorised scooter... but different?
look at this line:
quote:Concerns include whether the invention will fit into current regulations, and if huge corporations will erect obstacles to it.
We all know that if something is released that rivals the car/petrol consumption the big oil companies will try to put a stop to it. You can't tell me in all these years we haven't been able to come up with a viable alternative source of energy, or a fully working electric car? If we stop needing the oil/petrol - whole middle eastern countries would lie destitute and oil barrens and metanationals would loose megabucks. What HAS happened to our Hydrogen Fuel Cells and those two French guys who 'discovered' cold fusion? Huh?
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The two French guys are resting with Jimmy Hoffa.
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Well they HAVE started with Hybrid-cars that have alternative fuel, like electricity or vegetable-oil, I don't remember. I guess the car-companies want to do this at their own rate, so as to slowly dismantle the oil/petrol need, and squeeze as many bucks out of the remains as well...
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2.) "You can't tell me in all these years we haven't been able to come up with a viable alternative source of energy, or a fully working electric car?"
In all these years, no one has been able to come up with a cheaper and easier to use source of energy than fossil fuels, and electric cars still aren't able to meet the transportation needs of most car owners.
3.) "and those two French guys who 'discovered' cold fusion?"
They were laughed out of the scientific community for making unsupportable and unrepeatable claims.
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I heard the two French guys work was repeatable... But it wasn't fusion, it was a chemical reaction- one that could be done easier in different conditions.
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quote:his device will be an alternative to products that �are dirty, expensive, sometimes dangerous and often frustrating, especially for people in the cities.�
This implies that it's more than likely a transportation device. That scooter thing would be my bet, but if so, I'd have to question the justification for all the hype. Y'know?
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I think this whole thing's funny as hell. If in fact it does turn out to be something lame like a stupid scooter, which'll be "out" by 2002, then why the secretiveness? I think it's a bomb.
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FWIW, my roommate thinks that the new invention is an engine that will use any combustible material as fuel. As I understand it, he is vaguely more informed on this sort of thing than most people, but not necessarily by much. (Dean Kamen went to my college, BTW.)
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QUOTE: "When he demonstrated it, Bezos laughed � which may mean it has entertainment value or it�s so simply brilliant, people may wonder why they didn�t think of it."
Or perhaps it was so stupid that he couldm't hold back his laughter.
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