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No Winner In NASA's Moon-Dirt Digging Competition

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the not-even-close-and-still-no-cigar dept.

Engadget is reporting that NASA's recent moon-dirt digging competition has concluded without a winner being named. "The excavator built by Technology Ranch was able to notch first place by relocating just over 143-pounds in 30 minutes, but fell quite short on picking up any award monies. So for those of you who weren't exactly ready to go mano-a-mano with these guys and gals this time around, next year you've all got $750,000 on the line."

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  1. Re:Better Link by mpe · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    When your computer power supply is rate for 300 W, that means that it doesn't use more than 300 J of energy every second.

    It may well mean that it can supply no more than 300J of electrical energy. Though as the sum of the maximum power ratings of each of its outputs.
    In order to do this it has to take in more than 300W. This extra energy typically appears as heat.