11-20-2002, 03:58 PM
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retired
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Toronto, Canada
Posts: 1,930
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That 5000 Kilometers distance graph and the size of the sun spot reminded me that ...
according to Guinness World Records:
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Longest Journey By Solar-Powered Car
The Radiance, a sleek solar car built by the Queen's University Solar Vehicle Team of Ontario, Canada, travelled 7043.5 km. (4376.62 miles) across Canada from Halifax, Nova Scotia, to Vancouver, British Columbia, in 29 days from July 1–29, 2000. Radiance was built for the annual World Solar Challenge between Darwin and Adelaide in Australia, and achieved second place in 1999.
The record-breaking solar car crossed the whole of Canada at a cost of just five Canadian dollars, compared with the CAN$3,000 (US$2,030) fuel costs incurred by the support truck that tailed the car. The Radiance was not only able to convert the sun's rays into propelling energy, it could also store the sun's energy by using it to charge a set of over 1,000 nickel batteries – which are similar to those used in laptop computers.
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Last edited by Nic Name; 11-20-2002 at 04:07 PM.
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