World Solar Challenge Started in Australian Desert 113
photonic writes "The World Solar Challenge has just finished the first racing day. It is a 3000 kilometer race from Darwin to Adelaide for cars that are powered by solar energy only. The results from this day have not yet been published, but intermediate results suggest that the Dutch Nuon Solar Team is again on the lead. This team from Delft University of Technology has a reputation to uphold since they also won the previous two races in 2001 and 2003, the last one in a record breaking 97 km/h average.
The Tesseract team from MIT was less fortunate: during the qualification they got off track and rolled over. After some fixing up they still managed to qualify into 7th place on battery power, but with substantial damage to the solar panel their challenge will be finishing rather than winning."
Those wacky australians... (Score:5, Funny)
Upside down country did it, the solar car was merely trying to right itself.
Another oddity, that khaki colour car there looks like a 4 door GTO 'coupe'
Strange
Imperial units (Score:5, Funny)
97 km/h = 8.03640075 furlongs per minute
Re:Imperial units (Score:4, Funny)
Re:I really respect these guys (Score:5, Funny)
Nuclear advocates bound to chime in... (Score:4, Funny)
Google Fight - Solar vs Nuclear power! [googlefight.com]
Ohh hell, whatever... you guys can have this one but we'll be back.