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 Posted: Wed, 06 May 2009 02:32:57 Post Subject: Chocolate-powered car takes to the race track |
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| Quote: | The WorldFirst Formula 3 racing car can do 125mph around corners, say its creators. "On Friday, we tested it around the campus car park, and we hope to get it on the track later this week," project manager James Meredith at the University of Warwick told TG Daily.
The car meets all Formula 3 racing standards except for its biodiesel engine, which is configured to run on fuel derived from waste chocolate and vegetable oil. Formula 3 cars currently cannot use biodiesel. The team hopes to enter it in some sort of race soon, though, said Meredith.
Components made from plants form the mainstay of the car’s make up, including a race specification steering wheel derived from carrots and other root vegetables, a flax fibre and soybean oil foam racing seat, a woven flax fibre bib and plant oil-based lubricants. |
Read more about it here:
http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/42304/135/
And here's the link to the article over Warwick University website:
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents/pressreleases/racing_car
BTW, my colleague to work is going for a business trip to Warwick, Enlgand, next week...so I suggested him to try and have a visit there and hopefully take some pictures of it and really have a look at it... 
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| Jason wrote: | | I saw that on Fox News... But umm, where exactly does waste chocolate come from?!? |
Hehehe... Good question?  Maybe from chocolate eaters like me...  But than it's not really chocolate, but .....  (though the color is the same...  ).
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There is no such thing as waste chocolate 
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| heylinder wrote: | There is no such thing as waste chocolate
Hope your colleague can get more pics |
Yeah, I hope so as well, even though I doubt he'll be able to get a close look at the car while he'll be in Warwick...
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| Jason wrote: | | I saw that on Fox News... But umm, where exactly does waste chocolate come from?!? |
Waste Chocolate...is that the last few bites of a king size Snickers that you just cant seem to put down with out feeling sick? |
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| Blake wrote: | | Jason wrote: | | I saw that on Fox News... But umm, where exactly does waste chocolate come from?!? |
Waste Chocolate...is that the last few bites of a king size Snickers that you just cant seem to put down with out feeling sick? |
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| heylinder wrote: | | Hope your colleague can get more pics |
The guy just came back. And yeah, he went to Warwick University, but unfortunately, when he arrived there, it turned out that the car was taken away from they (to show it somewhere else...) a day before he arrived... 
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| Blake wrote: | | Jason wrote: | | I saw that on Fox News... But umm, where exactly does waste chocolate come from?!? |
Waste Chocolate...is that the last few bites of a king size Snickers that you just cant seem to put down with out feeling sick? |
What comes out after it passes through you maybe. In that case you can guess what the exhaust would smell like |
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