{"id":463225,"date":"2010-03-23T13:01:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T17:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-03-22-indulge-your-wettest-dreams-of-low-carbon-flying-with-jetlev\/"},"modified":"2010-03-23T13:01:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-23T17:01:00","slug":"the-jetlev-indulges-your-wettest-dreams-of-low-carbon-flying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/463225","title":{"rendered":"The JetLev indulges your wettest dreams of low-carbon flying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tby Ashley Braun <\/p>\n<p>Are your arms tired of holding up frequent-flyer guilt? Don&#8217;t like the hassle of gassing up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodcleantech.com\/2007\/08\/the_personal_blimp_the_beginni.php\">a personal blimp<\/a>? Doubtful about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.triplepundit.com\/2010\/03\/breaking-virgin-gallactic-defends-space-tourism\/\">pie-in-the-sky eco-claims of recreational space tourism<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Same here. That&#8217;s why we&#8217;re on cloud nine over the launch of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jetlev-flyer.com\/en\/\">JetLev<\/a>, which allows you to fly by the seat of your wetsuit with the ease of a rocket and the carbon emissions of a small motor boat. It&#8217;s personal transportation for the wet jetsetters.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/science\/archive\/2010\/03\/finally-a-flying-device-too-wacky-even-for-me\/37783\/\">James Fallows of The Atlantic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Like what you see? <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.grist.org\/member\/email-subscriptions\/\">Sign up to receive our email roundup of pun-usual green news<\/a> just like this&#8212;we call it &#8220;The Grist List&#8221;&#8212;every Friday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-03-24-sarah-palin-nature-documentary-dreams-to-become-reality-tv\/\">Sarah Palin&#8217;s spendy nature documentary dreams to become reality TV&#8212;on TLC!<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-03-18-a-happy-meal-still-looks-fresh-on-its-first-birthday\/\">A Happy Meal still looks &#8216;fresh&#8217; on its first birthday<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-03-18-performance-issues-Chicago-mens-room-reek-water-conservation\/\">Performance issues in Chicago men&#8217;s room reek havoc on water conservation<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=82935e79bd4aa7631dffda2764f8163f&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=82935e79bd4aa7631dffda2764f8163f&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<!-- foo --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Ashley Braun Are your arms tired of holding up frequent-flyer guilt? Don&#8217;t like the hassle of gassing up a personal blimp? Doubtful about the pie-in-the-sky eco-claims of recreational space tourism? Same here. That&#8217;s why we&#8217;re on cloud nine over the launch of JetLev, which allows you to fly by the seat of your wetsuit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":765,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-463225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/765"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}