FLYWHEEL HYBRID UPDATE: Flywheel hybrid test vehicle nets 22.4% improvement in fuel economy. “The FHSPV vehicle recovers energy via its rear differential and continuously variable transmission and routes that juice into a flywheel. When the driver reapplies the accelerator pedal, the CVT transfers energy back to the wheels. The flywheel and its associated drive system are installed adjacent to the rear axle, in a space normally occupied by the spare tire. The whole system reportedly weighs in at less than 176 pounds.”

BOOST YOUR WI-FI SIGNAL using only a beer can.

UPDATE: An endorsement from reader Geoff Lackey, who writes: “I just tried it with a lowly Coke can, and damned if it didn’t work. Imagine the results a beer can will bring.”

FROM THE ANCHORESS, a 9/11 anniversary link roundup.

BARRY RUBIN: Ten Years After September 11: Who’s Really Winning the War On Terrorism?

MARK TAPSCOTT: The Obama Energy Crisis As You’ve Never Before Seen It. “It’s been eclipsed somewhat in recent months by the continued stagnation of the economy and the increasingly loud Republican presidential nomination battle, but the energy crisis caused by President Obama’s Permatorium on drilling in the Gulf of Mexico is just as serious as it ever was. And it’s going to get worse if something isn’t done soon to lift the bureaucratic strangulation being applied to the oil and natural gas industries by Obama’s Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar.” You’d think by now that people would understand the importance of getting oil from someplace other than the Middle East.

AT AMAZON, bestsellers in Military History.

SO HOW TO NOTE THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF 9/11? In the past I’ve given shooting lessons to a Marine, I’ve taken the day off from blogging, and I’ve even gone to a Tea Party.

This year, as in most past years, I’ll just keep on blogging as usual. And here’s a link to my original 9/11 coverage — just scroll on up.

Here’s a picture by my cousin-in-law Brad Rubenstein, from his apartment that day. You might also want to read this piece by James Lileks.

And here’s a passage from Lee Harris’s Civilization And Its Enemies.

Forgetfulness occurs when those who have been long inured to civilized order can no longer remember a time in which they had to wonder whether their crops would grow to maturity without being stolen or their children sold into slavery by a victorious foe.
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They forget that in time of danger, in the face of the Enemy, they must trust and confide in each other, or perish.

They forget, in short, that there has ever been a category of human experience called the Enemy. And that, before 9/11, was what had happened to us. The very concept of the Enemy had been banished from our moral and political vocabulary. An enemy was just a friend we hadn’t done enough for — yet. Or perhaps there had been a misunderstanding, or an oversight on our part — something that we could correct. And this means that that our first task is that we must try to grasp what the concept of the Enemy really means.

The Enemy is someone who is willing to die in order to kill you. And while it is true that the Enemy always hates us for a reason — it is his reason, and not ours.

I’ve mentioned it before, but it bears repeating today.

You should also watch this memorial, made shortly after the attacks. It’s still quite powerful.

UPDATE: Reader Jim Vinoski recommends this 9/11 column from John Derbyshire. “This is civilization versus barbarism.”

BRUCE BAWER: 9/11 AND THE PASTNESS OF THE PAST. “Nothing is over about 9/11, but the national consciousness pretends it is so.”

DONALD SENSING: A 9/11 Memorial Video Reflection.

RON RADOSH: How Time and Newsweek Memorialize 9/11, or the Sad Demise of one that was once was a Decent Magazine.

ROGER KIMBALL: “The Foreseeable Future”: Thoughts on the Continuing Significance of 9/11.

READER KEN POTTER OBSERVES HIS DAD, GEORGE L. POTTER’S BIRTHDAY BY ASKING ME TO LINK TO HIS DAD’S NEW BOOK: In Search of the Yellow Dog: A Randall Oliver Mystery. Happy birthday! Having a birthday on September 11th has got to be disturbing in some ways, and I hope this makes it a bit better.

MEMORY: 9/11 Inspired Local Man To Join U.S. Marines.

PEGGY NOONAN: We’ll Never Get Over It, Nor Should We.

MARK STEYN: From “Let’s Roll!” to “Let’s Roll Over.”

PHYLLIS CHESLER: What To Say To The Totalitarian Left On 9/11/11.

With particular reference to hatemongering Canadian academic Sunera Thobani.

RATS ON THE WESTSIDE, BEDBUGS UPTOWN: Woman Attacked By Rat On New York Subway.

Perhaps Mayor Bloomberg might focus on the rats and bedbugs and other sanitation issues before attending to things like sodium or gun sales in other states. Go ahead, bite the Big Apple. Don’t mind the maggots!

STACY MCCAIN: On September 10th.

Hey, I covered that drug story. It was kinda buried later, though . . .

CRUSHING CIVIL RIGHTS in California.