The Vehicle Design Summit is a collaborative effort by 25 college teams around the world to build a plug-in electric, hyper-efficient, “clean” car – in order to ward against what one environmentalist calls, not “global warming,” but “global weirding” (i.e., the putative dire consequences of a rise in average global temperature). (New York Times)

And think of the crimp such an invention would put in the machinations of oil-producing nations that sponsor terrorism!