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Solar Car Speed Record Smashed
An anonymous reader writes with word from Australia that "There's a new world record for the fastest solar-powered land vehicle: 88 km/h average speed over one kilometre in a lightweight car that uses about the same power as a toaster." As the article goes on to explain, this solar racer, built last year by students from the University of New South Wales, managed to nab that speed record earlier this month on an Australian navy base airstrip.
managed to nab that speed record earlier this month
Kind of like how Slashdot covered it earlier this month?
are photovoltaics required? it would be fun to enter a steam engine / mirror driven vehicle, something large like the size of a tractor trailer with huge mirror collectors. it wouldn't be very fast but unlike the photocell models it could have an air conditioner and heater core.
Snowden and Manning are heroes.
Slashdot's been working on breaking it's own records...only 14 days since this was posted originally.
When I read the (non-slashdot) article when it originally came out, they hold the record for the fastest speed in a vehicle entirely powered by solar panels. Most solar vehicles use the panels to charge batteries, and then run from the battery, whereas this vehicle used the power directly.
Better than getting nailed in the face by 88km/h toast ...
Toasters use about 1.5kW which is about 2 horsepower
I never understood the term horsepower. Show me two horses that can make toast.
Tesla was a genius. Edison however was a overrated hack who liked to torture puppies.