Racing car made out of nut shells

[lala]

Don't know if you've already seen this car yet . . . . :D

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/8236764.stm

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[offsite:1gy1xmtv]Many people's first vehicle costs peanuts, but a team of Northern Ireland researchers have helped take that a step further by building a racing car using cashew nut shells.

The Formula Three vehicle, which is world's first sustainable racing car, has been constructed using sustainable and recycled products - including hemp, soybean oil, potato starch and recycled bottles.

It runs on bio-diesel and has a top speed of 130mph.

The car has already appeared at this year's Goodwood's Festival of Speed and was driven by A1 Grand Prix champion racing driver Adam Carroll.

Dr Julie Soden, researcher at the University of Ulster (UU), helped make a barge board which is positioned behind the front wheels.

"It is exciting and refreshing to see an actual product coming out of the research lab," she said.

"The next step in the process is the testing and improvement of the first design, so the initial work will be built upon to show the full potential and the scope of the research.

"While the safety critical parts are not made from sustainable materials, the racing car is evidence of the significant advances made by researchers into what is readily achievable in the sustainable composites field."

The project was undertaken in collaboration with the University of Warwick's Innovative Manufacturing Research Centre.[/offsite:1gy1xmtv]

[boycotteverything]

that's the nuttiest post you've ever made.

[lala]

that's the nuttiest post you've ever made.


I'm a descendant from the nut family, my mother was an Almond . . . . . :lol: . . . At least there wouldn't be heaps of wrecking yards . . . .maybe they could put seed's in there to and as they decompose they could sprout . . . I had a car that grew plant life in it . . . . had to park under cover to keep the weeds down . . . :mrgreen:

[GeneralStriker]

Along those same lines- I've long felt that manufactured structures, such as houses, will eventually be grown from bio engineered programmed seeds. Such structures will not only cost nothing but will be capable of recycling wastes and producing food. All important future inventions will be biologically based- even computers, which will be wet and round and instantaneous. Rather than plugging them in we'll be feeding them. So this nutty car of yours may just be prescient, even if primitive!

As side note- the civilizations visiting earth from other solar systems have already mastered this technology. Their transports are alive and conscious. The only things here of interest to them are the uses, for their own purposes, of the genetic material that has naturally evolved on this planet. This is known to a few in the US Government and it freaks them out. Very freaky shit. But true.

[lala]

Along those same lines- I've long felt that manufactured structures, such as houses, will eventually be grown from bio engineered programmed seeds. Such structures will not only cost nothing but will be capable of recycling wastes and producing food. All important future inventions will be biologically based- even computers, which will be wet and round and instantaneous. Rather than plugging them in we'll be feeding them. So this nutty car of yours may just be prescient, even if primitive!

As side note- the civilizations visiting earth from other solar systems have already mastered this technology. Their transports are alive and conscious. The only things here of interest to them are the uses, for their own purposes, of the genetic material that has naturally evolved on this planet. This is known to a few in the US Government and it freaks them out. Very freaky shit. But true.


Why would it freak them out, thats what we are, organic computers, starships, capable of anything if we knew how to work the dam thing . . . . :D

[Foxtrot Oscar]

Dell have been looking at using fast growing Bamboo as a material for a line of PCs.

Can't remember if I read that or heard it from a bloke down'tit pub!

Fox

Hey how many BE's dose it take to tile a floor?










Depends on how thinly you slice the fucker!

Fox

[boycotteverything]

Why would it freak them out,They freaked when they realized that the human race is nothing more than property- in effect, just raw materials for the benefit of the owners.