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Kids Build Soybean-Fueled Sports Car

High school kids (including drop-outs) design car that can go from zero to 60 in four seconds and get more than 50 miles to the gallon on soy bean oil.

Preface Comment

by Sterling D. Allan
Pure Energy Systems News

Feb. 30, 2006

I spoke this morning by phone with Simon Hauger who is the director of the West Philadelphia High School auto program.

He said that his students have been working on this car for a couple of years, and that they ran it in the Tour de Sol and won their division in May 2005. The 50 mpg mileage was well documented there.

They were then able to enter the car into the Philadelphia Car Show, where the car was the star of the show.

The Philadelphia Inquirer ran a feature, which CBS News then noticed and came to the school to run the feature which they aired a week ago.

Hauger said that the camera crews were there for an entire day and took four hours of footage.

"You never know what they will select to include in their three minutes of air time," he said.

The coverage had generated a lot of favorable media interest.

The question that gets asked over and over, he said, was "Why aren't the major automobile manufacturers doing this?"

"It kind of begs the question," he said.  "This is all off-the-shelf stuff.  These kids are not geniuses, and look at what they have been able to come up with on a shoestring budget."

What's under the hood is a VW turbo diesel in the back, and an AC propulsion electric motor in the front.

They're still working out some issues with the hybrid aspect of the car, and did not use that in winning the Tour de Sol.

In other words, the technology exists in presently-manufactured automobiles to achieve these kinds of efficiencies and power.  Why aren't the major automobile companies doing this as a matter of course?

Maybe they should take Hauger's course.

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Originating Comment

by Leslie R. Pastor, New Energy Congress
(Feb. 28, 2006)

Have you ever seen the movie “Finding Forester”  starring Sean Connery and Rob Brown?   I love it when he says, “Punch the Keys,” referring to his 16 year old ‘literary’ prodigy, who is just beginning to be tutored by the famous Forester who was ‘found’ when Jamal Wallace attempted to rob Forester’s apartment in the run down slum neighborhood of New York.  Forester takes a shine to Wallace, reading his writings, making corrective and instructive commentary on the young prodigy’s ‘intuitive and pronounced’ writing ability.  Forester’s relationship with Wallace develops into a fruitful exchange of ideas and goals of ultimate accomplishment, where both tutor and teacher are well rewarded.

This brings to mind a recent CBS News program showing how stereotyped kids, who were deemed to be unable to do anything, or anything good or useful for that matter, absolutely astounded the modern industrial manufacturing world of production engineering.  They built a car that runs on soybeans, as a bio-diesel fuel.  And not just any car, a modern sports car, any avid racing entrepreneur would be proud of.  It can go from 0 to 60 in 4 seconds, and it gets 50 mpg.  Simply astounding.  High School Drop-Outs can do what Detroit can’t. 

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The story 

Kids Build Soybean Fueled Car - High School ‘Drop-Outs’ Build Soybean Bio-diesel Car From Scratch - That Go From Zero to 60 in 4 Seconds - at 50 mpg. (CBS News; Feb 21, 2006)

The little hybrid engine that could - W. Phila. High's team will display its award-winning car at the auto show. (Philadelphia Inquirer; Feb. 5, 2006)

Research:

by Leslie R. Pastor

Bio-Diesel Benz

http://www.noendpress.com/caleb/biodiesel/index.php

What is Bio-Diesel?

http://www.hempcar.org/biofacts.shtml 

The Argument in Favor of Industrial Hemp

http://www.andykerr.net/ChieftainCols/Col19.html 

http://shop.store.yahoo.com/hemp-organic/hempinfo.html 

Hemp For Fuel

http://www.artistictreasure.com/learnmorecleanair.html

Hempoline instead of Gasoline

http://www.artistictreasure.com/flier6.html 

Cars That Could Run On Hemp

http://www.mattpeiken.com/Journalism/Scene-Trend/hemp.htm 

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=20050828&articleId=872

http://www.naihc.org/hemp_information/hemp_facts.html

http://www.hempcar.org/diesel.shtml

http://www.fullcircleherbs.com/wp/?p=214

Powering A Car On Waste Vegetable Oil

http://www.thevoicenews.com/news/2003/0411/Features/f01.html

Hemp: The Renewable Resource

http://www.ratical.org/renewables/ 

Hemp Guide

http://www.naturalcollection.com/organic/hemp-guide-new.asp?sc=T

All About Hemp

http://www.lightparty.com/Energy/Hemp2.html

Rising Gasoline Prices - Put Hemp In Your Tank

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=MIL20050828&articleId=873

Hemp Facts:

http://www.whutaworld.com/2hempfaq.html

http://hempevolution.org/ecology/ecology.htm

http://www.illuminati-news.com/marijuana-conspiracy.htm

http://www.ratical.org/renewables/hemp.html

http://www.tucsonweekly.com/gbase/Opinion/Content?oid=oid%3A71111

http://www.randomactofkindness.com/comments.php?id=P471_0_1_0 

Hemp Imports Run Afoul Of DEA Rules

http://www.votehemp.com/PDF/articles/LATimesDEA_1-16-02.pdf

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Last updated March 01, 2006