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World’s First Environment Friendly F3 Car Runs on Chocolate!!! Made from Carrots…..

For all race lovers caring for environment its a good news. Warwick Innovative Manufacturing Research Center (WIMRC), part of Warwick University has developed an F3 compliant race car which is made of sustainable and environment friendly material. The most important of that, its powered by waste chocolate and vegetable oil. Using so much friendly material it still reaches the awesome speed of 125 mph which is must for these cars.

The Race Car with its Fuel and Components!!

The Race Car with its Fuel and Components!!

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Originally posted 2009-05-06 08:18:41. Republished by Old Post Promoter

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The Air Car

The world has truly realized the dangers posed by ever-increasing amounts of green house gases on our environment and their contribution to global warming. With fossils fuels running out the research has intensified for alternative energy sources specially for automobiles. A french automobile company has developed a car that runs on air. Well yes it does, the car utilizes compressed air,compressed to about4,500 pounds per square inch, as fuel. It takes about four hours to fill the tank to full pressure and then cold air is then released gradually to power the pistons and to the joy of eviroment lovers only fresh air comes out of the almost frozen exhaust pipe when it is moving at low speeds. The man behind this technology is Guy Negre, a former F1 automobile engineer.

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Originally posted 2009-06-12 12:18:17. Republished by Old Post Promoter

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Kite Powered Cargo System Initiated by SkySails

This is the world first ship partially powered by a large kite. The cargo ship started its maiden voyage from Germany to Venezuela last month. The Giant kite is fitted with a giant computer-guided kite, which helps the engines to power the ship, thus reducing fuel consumption and emissions by 20 percent.pmw_skysail_wideweb__470x3400 Read the rest of this entry »

Originally posted 2009-04-23 20:45:35. Republished by Old Post Promoter

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