We’ve reached the end of the world of plenty. When the world had lots of oil, food, copper and other natural resources. Yes, this is the end.
Over the next 30 years humanity will have to learn new tricks. I know that modern society is entrenched, we believe that our society is immobile. That this is [...]

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Oh airships, why did you never become the default way to travel? Oh, yeah, explosions.
I get the feeling that if this had gone through we’d have been seeing a lot more of those explosions …
Floating Mooring Mast Proposed as Way Station for Airships
CONVINCED that battle fleets of the future will require the aid of rigid [...]

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The wave of the future?
India’s largest automaker is set to start producing the world’s first commercial air-powered vehicle. The Air Car, developed by ex-Formula One engineer Guy Nègre for Luxembourg-based MDI, uses compressed air, as opposed to the gas-and-oxygen explosions of internal-combustion models, to push its engine’s pistons. Some 6000 zero-emissions Air Cars are scheduled [...]

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