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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.
(Excerpt) Read more at gazettetimes.com ...
TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: globalwarming; solarpower
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To: OrangeHoof
There are pictures at the excerpt or see post #13...
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posted on
07/17/2011 9:27:45 AM PDT
by
PROCON
(Don't even get me started on man-made globalwarming!)
To: PROCON
Sounds like he invented a pop corn popper.
Seems to work fine.
To bad it didn’t singe his back side a bit.
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posted on
07/17/2011 9:56:08 AM PDT
by
jongaltsr
(It)
To: PROCON; Little Bill; Desdemona; Nipfan; carolinablonde; marvlus; DollyCali; markomalley; ...
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posted on
07/17/2011 9:56:26 AM PDT
by
steelyourfaith
(If it's "green" ... it's crap !!!)
To: PROCON
Chevy Volt may be called the Chevy Boom.
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posted on
07/17/2011 10:04:39 AM PDT
by
bmwcyle
(Obama is a Communist, a Muslim, and an illegal alien)
To: IYellAtMyTV
I remember seeing that video from India. Stopped watching when the flames started coming out of the guy's head. Nasty!
No Tandoori jokes, please.
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posted on
07/17/2011 10:04:53 AM PDT
by
katana
To: Huskrrrr
If you’ve been injured in an accident that was not your fault, our experienced injury attorneys are standing by to take your call....
To: IYellAtMyTV
What’s actualy happening in that video? Why was he on the roof? and did he touch the overhead wire or was that a lightening strike?
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posted on
07/17/2011 10:11:06 AM PDT
by
caww
To: caww
What’s actualy happening in that video? looks like a suicide to me...
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posted on
07/17/2011 11:11:39 AM PDT
by
no-s
(B.L.O.A.T. and every day...because some day soon they won't be making any more...for you.)
To: PROCON
...an elite liberal bastion...You may not be seeing the forest for the trees. Corvallis is regarded as a backwards farm town by the elite libs. And in mid-July, here in Coos Bay, it's overcast for the third day in a row. Can't wait to get me a solar car.
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posted on
07/17/2011 11:34:05 AM PDT
by
gundog
(Help us, Nairobi-Wan Kenobi...you're our only hope.)
To: IYellAtMyTV
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posted on
07/17/2011 11:43:26 AM PDT
by
Artie
To: gundog
Corvallis is regarded as a backwards farm town by the elite libs. Huh?
I live in Corvallis; this is one of the most "progressive" small cities in Oregon.
Oregon State University is as liberal as they come.
Not as hob-nob as Haaaarvard, but bad enough..:=)
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posted on
07/17/2011 11:50:27 AM PDT
by
PROCON
(Don't even get me started on man-made globalwarming!)
To: PROCON
Sun must’ve been too hot that day.
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posted on
07/17/2011 2:14:10 PM PDT
by
Tolerance Sucks Rocks
(July 23, 2017 - This is Ellis Wyatt. I am on strike.)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Sun must’ve been too hot that day. Actually, it was cool and rainy, because of man-made globull warming...
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posted on
07/17/2011 2:33:45 PM PDT
by
PROCON
(Don't even get me started on man-made globalwarming!)
To: PROCON
Sitts got out just in time - right after he heard that initial pop Sounds like he was half expecting a *POP* and knew what it meant.
Note to greenies, fuses and circuit breakers are your friends unless it was a cascading battery failure and then nothing is your friend.
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posted on
07/17/2011 2:47:16 PM PDT
by
The Cajun
(Palin, Free Republic, Mark Levin, Rush, Hannity......Nuff said.)
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