Idling your car

I just read an article about why you should not idle your car's engine before you drive off or while stopped somewhere for a few minutes. There must have been at least ten testimonials from car shops from around the country advising that idling is really not necessary. They say the engine will warm up just fine if you idle it for 30 seconds or if you start it and go. This is on Yahoo! Let me just say that I have been idling my car for five minutes every morning (for 20 years) before I drive it away and will continue to do so. I was not convinced and habits die hard. Sorry.

Solar powered plane

Well, well - someone thought about building a plane powered by sunlight. Solar Impulse is a Swiss company which has just finished its prototype of a plane that will make its maiden voyage in the Spring of 2010. It is built to also fly at night. Figure that one out. Being the very first one, it will be able to carry a single person only - the pilot. It remnds me of the Wright brothers' first test flight. It weighs about 3,500 pounds but its wing span equals that of a big jet plane. I suspect it will glide much of the time. A round-the-world trip is planned for 2012. Now all they have to figure out is how to get it to carry 300 passengers. This topless woman would probably be brave enough to get on it.

Air Cars

I'm sure you've heard already - there's this company which is manufacturing cars that run on compressed air. I think it's in India but I'm just guessing. It might be in Alaska for all I know. That's not important to me. What's important is the car itself - if it's real. All these years, car companies all over the world have been going along with the oil companies to produce cars that take as much money out of your pocket as possible. Now comes this little upstart company which will cut your car fuel bills by 80% - imagine that!!!! Someone is bound to get in a lot of trouble over this.