Environmentally Friendly Race Cars, Military Vehicles

jackelfish writes "The non-profit organization IdéeVerte Compétition has created a 'space age' race car that runs on Liquefied Petroleum Gas (propane or butane) and is lubricated with sunflower oil. Sponsored by the European Space Agency, the car recently broke the 'LPG powered vehicle' speed record of 315 km/h. The car also utilizes space technologies such as a titanium fuel tank, heat shielding developed for the Ariane launch vehicles and an EGNOS satellite navigation system to determine the speed, acceleration and position of the car in real-time." And reader gkbarr writes "Is the DoD feeling the crunch of sky-high gasoline prices or are they being overrun by a bunch of Greens? Who cares, the latest Humvee looks to be a more capable and greener machine than its predecessors."

Comments

Don't panic

[halftrack]

But don't worry, a green-friendly Humvee is fairly low-priority on the DoD's list of innovations.

So relax, will ya... The DoD's not going to start respecting things. And with the Hummer you don't have to either.

Re:Environment Friendly Military?!

[imsabbel]

Think different!
More military->more wars->less humans-> better enviroment :)