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Google-Backed Wind-Powered Car Goes Faster Than the Wind 393
Posted by timothy from the duh-it's-pushed-by-the-google dept.
sterlingda writes "A wind-powered car has been clocked in the US
traveling downwind 2.85 times faster than the 13.5 mph wind. The
definitive research by Rick Cavallaro of FasterThanTheWind.org
is being funded by Google and Joby Energy. The run should now
settle the DWFTTW (downwind faster than the wind) debate that
has been raging for some time on the Internet about whether or
not such a feat was possible."  Google-Backed Wind-Powered Car
Goes Faster Than the Wind  Comments Filter:   • Debate?
(Score:5, Interesting)      by Mikkeles (698461) on Sunday June
06, 2010 @05:45AM (#32474252)      Sailing vessels can go faster
than the wind, why shouldn't a car be able to?      • Re:Debate?
(Score:5, Insightful)        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June
06, 2010 @06:09AM (#32474338)        Sailing vessels only go
faster than the wind