It was overhauled last summer, when its original, water-jet propulsion engines were replaced with two inboard propeller engines.
The apparatus he used, known as the Jetlev R200, is a water-propelled jet pack that can shoot a person 30 feet into the air and run for some 4 hours.
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The system is tiny but has a grand name - Warp Drive (Water Alcohol Resisto-jet Propulsion De-orbit Re-entry Velocity Experiment).
The company identified 17 products that met its standard of providing "significant and measurable environmental performance advantages, " including a Lexan film that replaces conventional paint, Harmony water-conserving washing machines, the new fuel-efficient GEnx jet engine and GE's Evolution locomotive, a 208-ton, 4, 400hp workhorse that burns 3% less fuel and puts out 40% less pollution than its immediate predecessor.
If you look around, you see the cameras are ubiquitous, dangling from the mouths of surfers, held up by spectators and strapped to the helmets of Jet Ski-zipping water rescuers.
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The 787 was designed for long over-water routes between midsize cities that couldn't profitably accommodate a larger jet with more seats.
That means more melting ice in the Arctic, dumping fresh water into the salty sea and making a mess of the all-important Gulf jet stream, which makes northern U.S. habitable.
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One quarter of the Hotel des Bergues' rooms are suites, with spacious sitting rooms and windows that look out onto Lake Geneva and the landmark Jet D'Eau, a 140-meter-high geyser of water that is reputed to be Europe's tallest fountain.
The implications of discovering evidence for fresh water are exciting for macro-organisms as well: Rover chief scientist John Grotzinger of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has speculated that we would have been able to drink that ancient water, had we been there some 2, 3, or 4 billion years ago to witness glorious Lake Gale.
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