Monday, April 18, 2011

New Design Electric Light Airplane

Via the Smart Planet website: the Fly Nano electric light aircraft. Somehow, I feel like we are living in a new golden era - a time that schoolboys read about in their Biggles novels, and older people in their Saint-Exupery novels. The coming of electric aircraft is a development that I find particularly interesting - here is one more aircraft, a single seat biplane with either electric or hybrid electric and internal combustion engines with ranges of 40 to 70 Km. Yes, this is a rich person's toy at the moment but in time, if the technology is developed, it would suit longer range aircraft for commercial purposes. Look at a Tiger Moth and then at a current light sport aircraft and you can see an evolution. Look at the even more sophisticated Fly Nano and just imagine where this technology would take us in the future . . .

The electric car that's one of a kind in Dubai - The National

The electric car that's one of a kind in Dubai - The National

The Tazzari Zero is one of the new crop of electric cars with expressway capabilities hat is available in Europe. This is an interesting piece in the UAE'a "The National" about the only one in Dubai, owned by a German enthusiast. There's a lot to be said about the owner's courage in buying this car and shipping it to a center of oil production to make a point - perhaps, in time, some of the UAE's rulers would see that cars like these which do not use gasoline or diesel, permit them to export more and earn more money for their country. That can't be a bad thing even for a country as wealthy as an oil emirate!