Talk about the Dean of "role models" for an inventor ...
Beyond the Segway: Dean Kamen's Stirling Solution:
http://blogs.business2.com/greenwombat/2007/08/a-visit-to-dean.html
I'd be willing to wager that this one will be a bigger hit then the
Segway ... given enough time.
Changes in latitude, changes attitude? Must be something about the
northern latitudes: NH in the USA and Noway [which probably has as much
oil wealth per capita as Arabia] ... YET...
... still has a high population of ultra-Green environmentalists