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Dutch Win World Solar Car Challenge

Posted by simoniker on from the netherlands-in-rapture dept.

Sick Boy writes "The Dutch solar car Nuna II, using ESA space technology, finished first in the World Solar Challenge, a 3010 km race right across Australia for cars powered by solar energy. Having set off from Darwin on Sunday 19 October, Nuna II crossed the finish line in Adelaide in a new record-breaking time of 30 hours 54 minutes, beating the previous record of 32 hours 39 minutes set by its Dutch precursor Nuna in 2001."

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  1. Smoke and a pancake? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    No? I zee zat zere ees no pleesing you. Zee dutch won! Iznt zat veird?

    1. Re:Smoke and a pancake? by Crash42 · · Score: 5, Funny

      No? I zee zat zere ees no pleesing you. Zee dutch won! Iznt zat veird?
      No! No! No! that is German.
      In Dutch it's more like : I see dat der is no pliesing joe. Issent det wierd ?

      Congrats to the Dutch Team !!

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  2. Doesn't sound that incredible by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Nearly 31 hours to cross a country the size of Australia doesn't sound a fantastic effort. From memory a Florida team went from canada to mexico in a little over 50 hours, and australia is at a guess a third the size of here. Are there more solid restrictions in the australian race?

  3. Solar energy propulsion... by aaribaud · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...now we've got a fRying dutchman.
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    Someone had to do it.

  4. Simpsons quote by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    "I prefer a vehicle that doesn't hurt Mother Earth. It's a go-cart, powered by my own sense of self-satisfaction."

  5. Point of origin by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny
    Having set off from Darwin
    OK, you can stop there. That pretty much explains everything...

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  6. Re:Are solar panels really all that great? by pommiekiwifruit · · Score: 5, Funny
    Well Australia was of course called "New Holland" before the pommies got there.

    In Australia they have signs on the road every 50km or so saying "Drowsy Drivers Die". In other countries they have an alternative to keep them awake, called "scenery".

  7. Re:Two Points by Cronan · · Score: 2, Funny

    Perhaps for the UK a car running on rainwater would be a better idea?

  8. Solar Panels bah! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Just wait till the Dutch team arrives at the Annual Windmill-powered-car Challenge next year!

  9. "Cheeseballs" by gwappo · · Score: 2, Funny
    For the casual slashdot reader; the Dutch and the Belgians appear to have a "thing" with eachother, whereby the Belgians are quite convinced the Dutch are cheap and eat only cheese. The Dutch, on the other hand, are convinced the Belgians are stupid & dumb.

    From this, the casual Slashdot reader can immediately conclude two points, 1) The Dutch are not cheap, nor do they only eat cheese since, if this were true, the profound intelligence required to reach such a conclusion would mean Belgians are not stupid. 2) Given -1-, the writer of this post must obviously be Dutch.

    :-P

    Klasse lui!