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Nuna 3 wins World Solar Cup for the 3rd Time

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the check-their-urine-for-steroids dept.

jberends writes "The Dutch TU Delft team wins for the third time in a row the World Solar Challenge in Australia. The average speed of Nuna 3 was 102.75 km/h over the 3021 km strech which is the first time that an average speed above 100 km/h is achieved in the Challenge. It is also the first time in the history of the race that a team wins 3 times in a row."

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  1. Proud to be Dutch by mwvdlee · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yet another time :)

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  2. Re:Congradulations by romka1 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yeah but look at them its not your everyday car with some solar pannel straped on top, its very aerodynamic and not cofortable for the driver at all...
    30 hours in that thing the driver diservers some props

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  3. Re:Solar power is not the way to convert people. by pe1rxq · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Wish me luck, I want to take this to my old physics prof.

    Why? Do you enjoy being laughed at?

    Jeroen

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  4. Re:Rules for next year's competition by pe1rxq · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Your comparisson is flawed...
    SUVs are normally used to drive ONE ass (or at most a few) around. Those Locomotives are pulling entire trains with assess or freight.
    So the total amount of pollution/work is a lot better for them than for your SUV.
    About the only justification for a SUV is either having a pet elefant to feed or having an incredibly big ass in which case you indeed have better things to worry about.

    Jeroen

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  5. Re:Rules for next year's competition by SillyNickName4me · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ok, how about not worrying about SUVs when there have been 1) locomotives (in the past which were an integral part pollutions early roots),

    Your typical locomotive, esp. nowadays uses very little fuel for what it transports, esp. when compared to other ways of transporting things. Improvement would be most welcome here still of course.

    2) Tractor-trailers & 3) the smog put out by practically every company in north jersey.

    The fact that there are possibly worse problems does not mean that you should not solve a problem you can do something about yourself.

    im really a little more than annoyed at people who bash the SUV to no end while at the same time - over looking the trucks that carry 90% of americas goods through the country. even if SUV's dissappeared tomorrow - we'd still have a incredible amount of tractor-trailers... and they'd still be putting out smog and using gas in quantities that make SUVs look like the dream solution to polution.

    Doing away with trucks and using a better, cleaner form of transport would be an excelent idea indeed..

    how about we stop putting the blame on commonplace people and give it back to who it belongs to - the companys whos business relies almost exclusively on trucking and burning oil.

    1. Those are seperate issues which both happen to polute things.
    2. For the large majority of people, a SUV is a luxory. There are exceptions, but those are that, exceptions. Many industries are a lot more then a luxory. SUVs are a directly solvable problem, poluting industries are not.

    Fix the problems you can solve easily first and then go on to the more difficult to solve problems. That way you do get the best result.

  6. Re:WSC Map Feature by Juliemac · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Ummm. It works in IE.