American Oil Crisis » human aviation http://americanoilcrisis.com American Oil Crisis News and Info Tue, 22 May 2012 15:21:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Eco Transport 2.0: It’s Leaps and Bounds http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/gas2/org/~3/AdrYkTVJPmI/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/gas2/org/~3/AdrYkTVJPmI/#comments Fri, 31 Jul 2009 21:05:36 +0000 Susan Kraemer http://gas2.org/2009/07/31/eco-transport-20-its-leaps-and-bounds/

When I was nine years old - I just knew something along just these lines was in our futuristic future!

My Jetpack: finally! Here it is; invented by German aerospace engineer Alexander Boeck, and first seen (by me) in the Chinese Olympics. Here, finally, on sale in stores near you, at $269; is that new high tech transport!

I am so down for casually commuting to work at 25 miles an hour, and striding nine feet at a time, and loping gracefully along with the occasional leap over a short building or two.  All while looking like some kind of robotic gazelle - - and one that is two feet taller than me!

And the carbon footprint of this amazingly delightful form of transport? It’s Zilch!

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