Japanese Solar car becomes the fastest
Cars with alternative energy from solar power made in Japan managed to win the World Solar Challenge held in Australia. Japanese mobile is able to walk with a speed of 100 kilometers per hour.
Quoted by AFP, Thursday (28/10/2009), race solar-powered car race, held over two days it worked out a car called the Challenger Tokai is out as the winner.
Tokai had reached the finish, which is located in Adelaide, earlier than its competitors. The total time taken is 29 hours and 49 minutes. Start taking places in the city of Darwin, so the distance to reach the finish until 3000 miles.
The resulting gap of Tokai Challenger with solar car behind him is two hours.
The team from Tokai University is able to walk an average of 100.54 miles per hour to beat Nuon solar car made in the Netherlands. Nuon itself has managed to win a solar car race for four times in a row.
This victory is the first Japanese since the Honda Dream II in 1993.
Solar car race was held to promote solar technology is environmentally friendly. This event is done once in two years since 1987.
Earlier, a young man who came from remote areas in Nepal to create new types of solar panels by using human hair.
The young man was named Milan Karki, believing that he had just found a solution to world energy needs. He also claimed invention allows the availability of environmentally friendly alternative energy and cheap.
“At first I just wanted to provide electricity at my house, and the village where I live. But now, I started thinking to provide electricity for the whole world,” said Milan was quoted as saying by the Daily Mail.
Milan went on to explain that the hair has replaced the function of silicon, because the components are almost the same as commonly used in solar panels. That means, the panel can be made with low cost for those who do not have access to electricity.
In Nepal itself which includes the world’s poorest countries, many rural areas without access to electricity. In fact, in some places that have been illuminated by any power, its use is limited to 16 hours per day.
It was later inspired Milan to create a solution. Along with four of his friends, he then experimented making solar panels from the hair. According to Milan, very easy to use hair became conductor in a solar panel and can update the issuance of energy.
Solar panels are capable of producing power for 9 volts. To him, it takes a fee of 23 Euros, or approximately Rp320.000 alone.
Milan said, if mass produced could be half the selling price or a quarter of the initial capital needed to make it.
Melanin, the pigment in hair coloring, very sensitive to light. It also can function as a conductor. Moreover, the hair is much cheaper than silicon, so the cost can be minimized to make it. Solar panels can also charge the phone for both providers of electricity throughout the night
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