Watched - or tried to watch - the ABC's video. What micro-cephalic idiot decided to add that techno-dross soundtrack?
All roads lead to Darwin ahead of solar challenge flag-fall
Australia's second Cruiser-class entry for the World Solar Challenge has joined the teams converging on Darwin for next weekend's start of the World Solar Challenge. TAFE SA's SolarSpirit 3 is the technical education body's third shot at the challenge, and its compliance with the Cruiser rule that there have to be at least …
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Monday 30th September 2013 05:32 GMT Kevin McMurtrie
Ah Wh J ?
First, the abbreviation for amps uses a capital 'A' and hours uses a lower case 'h'. Second, "40 aH" doesn't say anything about power without knowing the volts. The voltage varies by charge, and nobody wants to integrate a curve to read an article on a Sunday night, so watt hours is what's needed here. Amp hours is only used for standard battery packs where the voltage is obvious.
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Monday 30th September 2013 10:17 GMT andreas koch
@ John Smith 19 - Re: Like to see a few pictures of the whole field
The best coverage of the event is not the official website http://www.worldsolarchallenge.org/, but Jeroen Haringman's http://www.solarracing.org/, because he collates a tremendous amount of team data that isn't official.
And don't forget The Register here.
Two years ago El Reg had the SPB down under with the event, which was lucky because the WSC's webserver was crippled for most of the race. This year Lester Haines is fondling LOHAN's mighty orbs, so the SPB is a bit distracted and not on site.
In short, the best collection of info about solar racing: http://www.solarracing.org/ .
(Yes, I'm plugging the site; he deserves it.)
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Monday 30th September 2013 08:14 GMT footloose
Passenger number confusion
Richard says it must have three seats, the ABC article says, must have at least two forward facing seats, manager Gerry Paay in the ABC video says two or more seats and the car has three seats but the World Solar Challenger site says Driver / Passenger: 1 / 1 both facing forwards.
It must be Monday.