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Build Your Own Solar-Powered Scooter
An anonymous reader writes "CBC is reporting that the Biomod company in Montreal has released plans for building your own solar scooter for only $1600 (in Canadian funds, no less!) Hopefully the engineering community will take an interest, and add brakes to the blueprints..."
That's almost enough reason to go outside sometime.
Solar scooter? It'll never go fast enough to need brakes ;)
I will buy one when it runs on my cynicism and comes with an ipod holder.
solar-powered headlights?
why are there linux penguins on an msn page?
Hopefully the engineering community will take an interest, and add brakes to the blueprints..."
If it's solar powered, maybe your feet will be enough to stop.
from their message board:
Well BioModers' - Yesterday we did it! - For the first time on Earth (as far as we know), a SOLAR ELECTRONIC VEHICLE traveled over 100 kilometers in one day - on the streets and roads of this planet!
... A Black family took offense at our efforts to hook up with a neighbors' socket after a deserted factories outlet had suspiciously failed. Earlier, an African electrician cab driver had examined the vehicle during a brief stop, and rushed away vibrating with revealed inspiration, a Chinese family as well. After a short hop, we got permission from a factory gardener to use his outlet, with a good sun exposure - and then the cops showed up! They claimed that someone had hopped over a nearby fence! But the rattled OIL OCCUPATION ARMY was no match for the assembled prayers of native circles meeting yesterday around the world!
...So there we were, in the gathering darkness, BLINDED by the oncoming lights of S.U.V.s', going the WRONG WAY down a one-way highway - right through the RED LIGHTS of major urban cross-highways, wiggling through and between oncoming traffic of the acursed MOTOR CARS and TRUCKS - to their complete SHOCK! ....I wouldn't have had it any other way! (emphasis mine)
link to the post quoted
also, it looks like you have to log in to access the "files" part of their site.
These bikes you mention, I've seen some that are solar powered too, they use cool biotech drive mechanisms to convert solar energy to chemical energy... then they burn the chemical energy and give off nothing but CO2, water, sweat, and depending on the means used to covert the solar energy, methane.
Trying to use sarcasm in text-based forums does not work.
Q. What do a scooter and a fat chick have in common?
A. They're both fun to ride - but you wouldn't want your friends to see you on one!
What is that, like $12.89 USD?
so that's like what, $100 usd?
Jokes about how much $1600 CDN is in US dollars in 3...2...1
(it's about $1255 according to xe.com's currency converter)
Why do I have the feeling that the speeds obtained by this solar scooter will rival those of the Slowmobile from the Bureaucracy ("How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back") episode of Futurama?
Bureaucrat: "Oh no, now you've got my slowmobile off course and I'm going to crash!"
Slowmobile moves very, very slowly into a pile of boxes over the next five seconds.
Bureaucrat (in mock fear): "Ahhhhhh."
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At least with a gas powered scooter, you might be able to move fast enough to avoid getting beaten up.
I will buy one when it runs on my cynicism and comes with an ipod holder.
CBG: A cynicism powered scooter? I really doubt that will ever-
[KA-BOOM!]
Highly impractical and only suited for pot-smoking hippies,
I'll have you know some of us pot-smokers proactively trash the environment, you insentive clod!
and if a big wind comes up, it doubles as a hang-glider
Table-ized A.I.
Everyone has a little methane in their somewhere. =P
in girum imus nocte et consumimur igni