It's all about being on the move, and getting there fast.Here at Club of Pioneers we are especially happy with the news that soon we will be able to travel from Brussels to Sydney, in FOUR hours! How soon , we are not so sure about. The LAPCAT, which stands for Long-Term Advanced Propulsion Concepts and Technologie, is funded by the European Space Agency and powered by hydrogen. Sounds almost too good to be true. Image of Config A2 from Reaction Engines Staying in the air, Virgin Ltd founder and former climate change denier Richard Branson has announced his intentions to power his jets with pond scum infused biofuel. Last week, Virgin announced plans to test fly a Boeing 747-400 from London to Amsterdam using a blend of about 20 percent biofuel and 80 percent jet fuel.
From Autobloggreen we hear that the amazing Luigi Colani, responsible for biodynamic car designs, (amongst other things), has teamed up with toy makers Corgi to develop a 1/16-scale hydrogen fuel cell car. This RC car will be unveiled in early February at the Toy Fair Nürnberg. It will surely be beautiful.

Image by Volker WeberBut the fastest of all must be Prince Charles, who appeared at the World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi, as a hologram!
A life-size, three-dimensional image of the Prince was projected onto the stage, thus maintaining an extremely low carbon footprint and saved 20 tons of carbon waste. Maybe more conferences, summits and stars should use this new mode of “embodied” transport. Perhaps David Beckham should take note, who has recently been touted as having “the largest carbon footprint in history”.