Grenbird captures world land speed record for wind powered vehicles

Mar 29, 2009 Auto Tech, Green Technologies

Greenbird

Greenbird

Richard Jenkins, a British engineer recently  rewrote the world land speed record for a wind-powered vehicle. He reached 126.1mph (202.9km/h) in his Greenbird car on the dry plains of Ivanpah Lake in Nevada. American Bob Schumacher set the previous record of 116 mph in 1999, driving his Iron Duck vehicle.

The Greenbird was a carbon fibre built vehicles, with a solidwing, instead of sails to harness the power of winds. It weighed just 600 kg, but at high speeds, created enough downforce to avoid being flippping over.

Though wind powered vehicles may not be practical in real life, such initiatives will help focus public attention on alternate sources of energy.

Source: BBC.

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