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Eco-Marathon Team Hits 2,843 mpg
At this year's Shell Eco-marathon Americas event the team from Mater Dei High School shattered last year's record by traveling 2,843.4 miles on a single gallon of gasoline. "How did the Evansville, Ind., team come up with its winning airfoil-meets-teardrop design and beat out its largely collegiate competitors? "It comes from trial and error, seeing what works and what doesn't," an unidentified student and team member told a local newscaster Friday. Those top three vehicles, like most in the competition (25 out of 33 total), used internal combustion engines. The goal for all entrants was to travel as far as possible using as little fuel as possible. Vehicles--sans driver--couldn't weigh more than 160 kilograms (352 pounds), while drivers had to weigh at least 50 kilograms."
And adjusted their carburetor. Now it only gets 30 Miles per gallon.
What It could happen...
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what your country did to you
Let us briefly pause whilst my 1988 Mercury Grand Marquis sputters loudly with contempt.
Damn 50 kg skinny people.
/ weights in at 98kg
Just imagine walking out to your car in the morning, getting in, turning the key, and kaboom!
Sorry... This Video. I was changing my .sig and didn't realize that URL was on the clipboard. I'm a dumbass.
Start a happiness pandemic
Well, you could measure how far it could travel before the 1 gallon of gas eventually escaped from the walls of the gas tank.
Anthropic principle: We see the universe the way it is because if it were different we would not be here to see it.
Yeah -- we're all taller than you.
I'm confused. Could you make an analogy to computing?