Tuesday, January 6, 2015

Driving On Air

We went on another tour, this time to a lab working to harvest wind energy. I had thought we would mostly be looking at various wind turbine blades and how certain shapes might be better than others (which we did), but to my surprise we were shown really cool projects highlighting what is possible to do with harnessed wind power. For example, drive a car. Personally, I had thought this was a bit like an impossible task (drawing from sailing experience as well as a failed experiment involving a wind surfing sail and a long board) but the box car they had set up was much more advanced (it even had a custom carbon fiber frame)
Where the carbon fiber frame was spun from

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