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First Sustainable Racing Car that Runs on Chocolate

admin — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 19:13:03 +0000

An EPSRC funded researcher, Dr Kerry Kirwan from the University of Warwick, lead a research team who designed the first sustainable racing car in the world, a Formula 3.

In a ScienceDaily report it states that the car is made from woven flax and recycled carbon fiber. The steering wheel is composed of recycled resin and carrot pulp. The race car runs on biofuel that is made from chocolate and animal fats.

The race car is also quite fast, with top speeds clocking in at 135 mph. It goes from 0-60 in 2.5 seconds and it is also turbo charged.

Drivers Lewis Hamilton and Adam Carroll approve of the car as has Ross Brawn, who is the boss of the F1 team. So the car will make its racing debut in the Formula 3 Championship final on October 17th at Brands Hatch.

The success of this sustainable race car will open the door to building more of its kind for both racing and regular civilian car use as well.

There is a video of this car in action at IMPACT! World.

Information for this article was obtained from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

http://www.examiner.com/x-6503-Ft-Lauderdale-Science-News-Examiner~y2009m10d8-First-sustainable-racing-car-that-runs-on-chocolate

Article Credit: Anna Sanclement

Giant Ring Around Saturn

admin — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 19:03:52 +0000

The Spitzer Space Telescope has discovered a new ring around the planet Saturn. However, this ring is nothing like the normal rings that one thinks of encircling the planet. This ring is made up of debris cast out by Saturn’s distant moon Phoebe and is some 8 million miles away from the planet.

Astronomers have suspected that this ring might exist for some time. Due to the enormity of the ring, scientists have only just now, utilizing the advanced suite of instruments on the Spitzer Space Telescope. Scientists deduced that their might be a ring in this vicinity due to the two-faced nature of another of Saturn’s moons – Iapetus. This moon is dark on one side and bright white on its other side.

Although the ring is extremely cold, (at around minus 315 degrees Fahrenheit) it does give off some thermal radiation. It also is tilted – 27 degrees off of Saturn’s main ring system. To get a grip on the size of this newly-discovered ring in comparison with the planet Saturn itself, the image above shows what the complete Saturn-ring system would look like.

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