http://www.greencarcongress.com/2006/08/pmls_inwheel_mo.html

80 mpg with a standard internal combustion generator.  And 2 hours driving on batteries before you need to use it.

With a solid oxide fuel cell of the new CeO2 variety coupled to a microturbine this car could get 400 mpg on any liquid fuel.  Destruction of Earth's climate as we know it could be stopped with this technology.

http://greenlagirl.com/2006/08/27/interesting-quote-how-to-fix-agriculture

My comments on her thread:

Well he forgot to add: Take half the money saved from eliminating corporate welfare and turn it into tax incentives for small, local, organic farming. use the other half to pay down the deficit.

Use a few percenty of the first half to fund research into robotic farming designed to make organic farming using renewable electric power more efficient than chemical, diesel fueled, labor intensive farming.

That way organic farmers with a few acres can do it themselves on their computer connected robot that fertilizes (organic), waters, weeds,plants, harvests, all the stuff you would need to break your back doing, or break someone eles back, for below minimum wage.

Why do people use herbicide? Too much time and effort it takes to do it manually. Same with fertilizer, irrigation, and pesticides. Squash potato bugs manually? Yikes.

But a robot will vacuum them up and feed ‘em to your chickens, bwwaaaacckk (happy chicken music).

Now go tell some really rich garden loving people about this you LAers, maybe Laury David will fund this? You go LAgirl!

http://thefraserdomain.typepad.com/energy/2006/08/franklin_fuels_.html

This could make a backup generator for electric cars based on fuel cell/microturbine technology a reality.

True multi-fuel capability, high efficiency, low weight, and low cost; all the qualities that are needed to replace internal combustion.

Since the new nano tech lithium ion batteries are so very expensive, only about a 50 mile range for an electric car is practical on batteries alone. 

That is enough for most driving miles, but a good backup generator is needed to make electric cars able to compete in terms of utility with internal combustion.  This sounds like the technology that will do it.

Coupled with a microturbine and electric drivetrain in an economy car it could give 200+ mpg on liquid fuel alone.  And it would run on the cheapest liquid fuels.

And the whole design would fit into the space normally dedicated to an ICE (internal combustion engine), transmission, and related systems,  at equal to or less that the ICE weight.