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OSU student gets out just in time (Solar Vehicle
Explodes)
gazettetimes.com ^
| July 16, 2011
| Graham Kislingbury
Posted on 07/17/2011 8:48:24 AM PDT by PROCON
Driver escapes seconds before solar vehicle explodes
Nick Sitts was driving a solar vehicle north along 15th Street toward the formation area of the da Vinci Days parade shortly after 11 a.m. Saturday when he heard a pop.
Moments later there was an explosion, and soon the $100,000 vehicle was engulfed in flames.
Sitts got out just in time - right after he heard that initial pop, said Hai Yue Han, co-captain of the Oregon State University Solar Vehicle Team, which constructed the vehicle from 2008 to 2010.
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TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: globalwarming; solarpower
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This is in Corvallis, Oregon, an elite liberal bastion, where once a year the elites parade their "earf" friendly vehicles; worked out real well, huh?
Viva Algore!
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posted on
07/17/2011 8:48:38 AM PDT
by
PROCON
To: PROCON
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posted on
07/17/2011 8:50:06 AM PDT
by
WOBBLY BOB
( "I don't want the majority if we don't stand for something"- Jim Demint)
To: steelyourfaith; Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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posted on
07/17/2011 8:52:17 AM PDT
by
PROCON
(Don't even get me started on man-made globalwarming!)
To: PROCON
Gaia is trying to tell us something here.
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posted on
07/17/2011 8:52:31 AM PDT
by
Huskrrrr
To: PROCON
Chemical engineering students playing with electricity and epoxy based composites. I’m sure he will never forget the smell of burning carbon fibre.
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posted on
07/17/2011 8:54:42 AM PDT
by
mazda77
To: PROCON
Good that he volted in time...took his leaf...
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posted on
07/17/2011 8:56:32 AM PDT
by
bigbob
To: PROCON
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posted on
07/17/2011 8:58:29 AM PDT
by
ken21
(liberal + rino progressive media hate palin, bachman, cain...)
To: PROCON
So much for driving close to or parking near electric cars!
To: Red Badger
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posted on
07/17/2011 9:01:32 AM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: PROCON
My hometown in MS has 2 solar car racing teams, boys and girls. They have won numerous awards. The county has less than 20,000 people so this is a huge accomplishment for these students. Look up Sundancer Solar Car. Go to this site:
http://sundancersolarcar.blogspot.com/
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posted on
07/17/2011 9:01:41 AM PDT
by
MamaB
To: PROCON
I knew the mods could deliver a zot...
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posted on
07/17/2011 9:03:36 AM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: PROCON
Was there a grade connected with this project by OSU? May I suggest an F?
To: PROCON
WOW, POLLUTION!!!
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posted on
07/17/2011 9:05:56 AM PDT
by
Huskrrrr
To: PROCON
This story makes me happy...
I wish I could have been there to see it.
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posted on
07/17/2011 9:06:15 AM PDT
by
Sir Francis Dashwood
("Arjuna, why have you have dropped your bow???")
To: Army Air Corps
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posted on
07/17/2011 9:06:23 AM PDT
by
PROCON
(Don't even get me started on man-made globalwarming!)
To: PROCON
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posted on
07/17/2011 9:09:20 AM PDT
by
Texas Fossil
(Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one)
To: PROCON
$100,000 taxpayer dollars and 3 years free(slave) labor up in smoke.
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posted on
07/17/2011 9:15:10 AM PDT
by
fella
("As it was before Noah, so shall it be again.")
To: PROCON
Yeah, the whole 'green' infrastructure is a bit worrying...
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posted on
07/17/2011 9:19:52 AM PDT
by
IYellAtMyTV
(Je t'aime, faire du bruit comme le cochon.)
To: PROCON; holdonnow
Somebody needs to make sure Rush sees this story.
It’s a shame there are no pictures.
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posted on
07/17/2011 9:22:16 AM PDT
by
OrangeHoof
(Obama: The Dr. Kevorkian of the American economy.)
To: PROCON
Well, now they know one way how NOT to build a solar car.
(apologies to TAE)
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posted on
07/17/2011 9:23:08 AM PDT
by
Roccus
(Obama & Holder LLP, Procurers of fine arms to the most discerning drug lords (202) 456-1414)
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