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[The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future] The Oil Drum | Drumbeat: September 10, 2010: Fifty years after its founding, OPEC is as influential and important to the oil market as it ever has been, even as it confronts the gradual decline of the petroleum age, says a former oil minister who has been closely involved with the group for decades.

[Popular Science - New Technology, Science News, The Future Now] The Flying Car Gets Real | Popular Science: And when the engineers at Terrafugia in Woburn, Massachusetts, let me sit inside their just-finished proof-of-concept vehicle and grab the steering wheel, it’s easy to imagine piloting this thing up and out of traffic, into the open skies.

[CNET News.com] Why the flying car may be too much for humanity | Technically ...: "We're not going to have a flying car, as people think of it, for a while," Anna Dietrich, Terrafugia's chief operating officer, told Computerworld. "I would never say it's not going to happen, but today, the infrastructure is not there, nor is the training, nor are the avionics that would make the training unnecessary.

[AOPA Pilot Blog: Reporting Points] AOPA Pilot Blog: Reporting Points » Blog Archive » Flying car or ...: over 120k less than the Terrafugia, or about the price of a nice little vacation cabin close to the lake thats close to the shortfield airstrip that only something like the STOL Patriot II can easily get in and out of while the Terrafugia, incidentally, cannot. It needs more distance up or down than a Cessna, Which is another limitation in available destinations.

[Dr. Augustine Fou's Online Scrapbook] Dr. Augustine Fou's Online Scrapbook: Terrafugia Transition Flying ...: Unlike so many other pie-in-the-sky tech masturbation fantasies masquerading as projects that'll see the light of day, Terrafugia's Transition flying car amazingly looks like it really will go on sale next year, as its creators claimed .

[Geek With Laptop] Flying Cars: The Future Is Now | Geek with Laptop: Gotta admit, these vehicles look a bit like flying saucers and will operate more like a hovercraft even though Moller has specifically stated they are not hovercraft. Whatever the case, they will hover perhaps 10 feet off the ground (if they did go any higher, they would technically be classified as aircraft) and will be capable of vertical take offs and landings.

[Curious Read] World's first flying car on the roads next year | Curious? Read: The firm's website, 'Terrafugia.com', says of prospective owners: ‘Your deposit doesn't just reserve your very own roadable airplane, it gives us proof that today's pilot community is ready for this dream to finally become reality.

[CNET News.com] Flying car ready for takeoff? - CNET News: DW.pageParams = { siteid: '3', edid: '3', prtnr: 'CNET Networks, Inc.', ptid: '2100', onid: '11389', asid: '6040007', pgnbr: '', astId: '1' }; DW.regSilo = '1';

[Thinking Tech Blog RSS | SmartPlanet] NASA plans to fly a spacecraft directly into the sun - SmartPlanet: As with all NASA projects, in working out the details of a spacecraft that can survive in that hot an environment, researchers will come up with lots of technologies that can be used in non-exotic areas that will directly benefit the rest of us. As with all basic research, you can't predict what you will discover - you just have to be alert to possibilities as you explore new challenges.

[Samizdata.net] We might finally get those flying cars... | Samizdata.net: We are also a varied group made up of social individualists, classical liberals, whigs, libertarians, extropians, futurists, 'Porcupines', Karl Popper fetishists, recovering neo-conservatives, crazed Ayn Rand worshipers, over-caffeinated Virginia Postrel devotees, witty Frédéric Bastiat wannabes, cypherpunks, minarchists, kritarchists and wild-eyed anarcho-capitalists from Britain, North America, Australia and Europe.

[Thinking Tech Blog RSS | SmartPlanet] Another Tesla test drive ”” this time on the highway - SmartPlanet: I've driven many rented Prius and even that humble Hybrid EV has great acceleration and performs very well on the freeways of Los Angeles (and can deliver nearly 50 mpg at 75 MPH). But for pure-electric vehicles, the recharge cycle is prohibitive.

[Belmont Club] Belmont Club » The Age of the Demon: Space power and space industries and space travel to the outer System would all be wonderful if we had them, but the problem is that the first step is a really high one and we haven’t found any way to produce significant payoffs short of the final product. So, that either leaves it up to governments, whether in the interests of national prestige or perceived military advantage, or up to those wealthy individuals who can indulge their enthusiasms.

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