Environmentally Friendly Race Cars, Military Vehicles

jackelfish writes "The non-profit organization IdéeVerte Compétition has created a 'space age' race car that runs on Liquefied Petroleum Gas (propane or butane) and is lubricated with sunflower oil. Sponsored by the European Space Agency, the car recently broke the 'LPG powered vehicle' speed record of 315 km/h. The car also utilizes space technologies such as a titanium fuel tank, heat shielding developed for the Ariane launch vehicles and an EGNOS satellite navigation system to determine the speed, acceleration and position of the car in real-time." And reader gkbarr writes "Is the DoD feeling the crunch of sky-high gasoline prices or are they being overrun by a bunch of Greens? Who cares, the latest Humvee looks to be a more capable and greener machine than its predecessors."

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RTFA, submitter!

[Doc Ruby]

FTA: "The Shadow RST-V's reduced fuel consumption wasn't created to make it better for environment, it was designed make it the stealthy and efficient multi-purpose attack vehicle of the future."

gkbarr either didn't read the article they posted, or their military fetish blocked the truth from penetrating the brain layer that controls the posting hand. If the military even uses this tech, rather than just spend billions of our dollars on corporate welfare and PR about "khaki green", they'll use it twice as much on double the efficiency. And all that "space age" tech consumes more energy in manufacturing, and spews more pollution under Pentagon exemptions. Then they send it out to destroy environments with a hail of artillery and other lethal poison. How "green" are the uranium shells littering the Iraqi landscape? While "there are none so green as the dead" (Bruce Sterling), a million American military personnel taking the subway or biking to work, rather than manning strafing runs and firefights, would be actually better for the environment.