Hybrid Scooter That Runs on Anything That Burns

The multimillionaire inventor behind the Segway personal transporter is developing of a new bike that combines electric power and a radical generator which will allow it to burn almost any fuel.
Built around a fairly conventional battery and electric motor combination to provide the drive to the wheel, something experience with the Segway makes relatively easy, the radical part of the design is the inclusion of a Stirling engine to recharge the bike's battery pack.
Based on technology that pre-dates the internal combustion engine by nearly a century, the Stirling engine is closer in concept to a steam engine, using external combustion, and without the need for a fuel that can be injected and burned incredibly fast inside a normal engine's combustion chamber, it can run on virtually anything that burns – opening the door to easily renewable fuels rather than relying on dwindling fossil fuel supplies.