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Quantum Of Solace: Introducing Gizmodo’s Solar Car Challenger
Gizmodo has been supporting the University Of Western Sydney’s push to build a Solar Challenge car for this year’s Sun-powered race between Darwin and Adelaide. After much hard work, careful planning and many scrunched up pieces of paper over late nights, we’re proud to help introduce you to this year’s medal contender: The Solace — proudly supported by Gizmodo.
NASA Image Shows The Mayhem That Created Life On Earth
About 4.1 billion years ago, our solar system was a huge cluster of comets bombarding every planet orbiting the Sun and crashing into each other. That period of chaos is known as the Late Heavy Bombardment, and astronomers believe it was key to the formation of life in our planet.
Chasing The Sun: Meet The UWS Solar Challenge Team, Supported By Gizmodo
It’s Saturday morning and a winter fog clings to the hilly paddocks at The University of Western Sydney’s Kingswood campus. Inside block Z, a team of 25 engineering and industrial design students, alumni and multi-disciplined volunteers are building a solar-powered car from scratch. Come October 2013, in stark contrast to weather outside, they hope to race it from Darwin to Adelaide in the next World Solar Challenge. But before the team negotiates the desert, road trains, bush fires and better funded competition – they face immediate design and funding challenges. This is their story, and Gizmodo is along for the ride.
This Eco-Friendly New Zealand Home Is Powered Entirely By The Sun
Great Barrier House, built by Crosson, Clarke and Carnachan in New Zealand’s Great Barrier Island, is a sustainable solar-powered home constructed of sustainably-sourced timber in deference to its ecologically-sensitive island surroundings.
Stylish Sun Shade Is The Easiest Way To Harness Solar Power For Your Home
If you like the idea of getting free energy from the sun, but don’t want to deal with the complications of installing a solar array on your roof, Umbrosa has created a lovely backyard sun shade that does double-duty — turning those rays into electricity.
Why Don’t We Charge All Our Gadgets With Solar Power?
Keeping your gadgets going with power is tricky business, which is a little unusual when you consider that there’s an immense source of power constantly erupting over our heads. At a gadget level, there’s plenty of solar chargers out there, but uptake has been relatively slow — and for a very good reason.
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