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Solar-Powered Cars Race fron Austin to Calgary
dblizzard writes "The North American Solar Challenge race is about to start. Travelling at speeds of up to 130km/hr (80mph), these teams will race from Austin Texas to Calgary Alberta all with no non-reusable energy. Here's the race link, and here's some really cool photos of the Queens' University car."
Non-reusable energy? Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it simply is transferred around. What does non-reusable mean exactly? Do they mean non-renewable?
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Programming is like sex... Make one mistake and support it the rest of your life.
Great, so now I can use the same bit of sunlight over and over until I have enough power stored up to finally take over the world!
with no non-reusable energy.
And apparently without no double negatives, too!
Why don't they just use the sunlight as direct propulsion? Then they'd go really fast.
There's probably some reason they don't. Those people are really smart.
Are there rules against travelling at close to light speed in these races? Oh, I see, they go throught towns. That must be it.
Raise your children as if you were teaching them to raise your grandchildren, because you are.
here's some really cool photos of the Queens' University car.
Down here in the States, it's hard enough to get equal marriage rights... but in Canada, there is a whole University just for Queens!
What is Fron? Fron Fron...?? ....From?
.. and I hope it will become a better success than the arctic winter solar car race.
"It's too bad that stupidity isn't painful." - Anton LaVey
no non-reusable energy
no non-nonsense editing
See subject line. The sun is just going down here in Austin, and I see their server is fried. Using the reasoning I have learned here at Slashdot, that means that their server must be solar powered!
Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds. - Albert Einstein
The way the weather has been in Austin this last month, they should have enough power to fly to Calgary... if they don't burst into flames first.
I have a mental image of a non-air conditioned vehicle dodging 18 wheelers on I-35.
Hell on Earth. (Welcome to Texas)
Perhaps it's a clever new form of flamebait?
Thank you. Drive through.
It's going to run out eventually just like oil. We need to start weening ourselves off of this solar dependency right now!