Okay, so a typical stirling engine of this size won’t move you too fast, but if you can pick up some trash from the roadside and put it in the combustion chamber?  How about some of the wood chips they’re leaving along the roadside (wait I already use those – forget the last sentence!)?

If Dean Kamen can dream it and bring it into the real world, it just might make our roads cleaner and get us to where we’re going.  Hmm: wonder how far I could ride on a dollar meal – packaging included?

Hybrid Electric Scooter Runs On Anything That Burns : Gas 2.0.

I'm going to eat on the lower east side.

Not ready for prime time, or even prime locations – yet.  Four architects were asked to draw up plans for the house of the future without regard to cost, but the end result had to be attainable (no “entropy-vortex-reverse-plasma-rediculum-bizbah er, engine that runs everything, kinda”)  The results?  A “Tree House”, a “Reptile House”, and “Edible House”, and more.

The Green House of the Future – WSJ.com.