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Maine Daredevils Power Car on Soda and Mentos (Set Record)
New York Daily News ^ | Friday, December 9 2011 | BERENICE GARCIA

Posted on 12/09/2011 3:23:11 PM PST by nickcarraway

Set record with 239-foot drive

A pair of daredevils from Maine have powered a small car to a world record fueled by soda and candy.

Fritz Grobe and Stephen Voltz created a car that was powered by 54 bottles of Coke Zero and 324 pieces of Mentos. The car, named Mark II, set a record by traveling 239 feet.

To get it moving, the rocket car uses a simple piston mechanism, they explain on their website EepyBird.com. However, they warn that the force is powerful and no one should try it home.

Their previous attempts got it to travel 220 feet.

Despite their excitement, Grobe and Voltz warned other amateur thrill-seekers not to try this at home.

“There is a huge amount of power involved, and we don’t want you to get hurt,” they said.


TOPICS: Hobbies; Miscellaneous; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: cokezero; fritzgrobe; maine; mentos; stephenvoltz

Video at Site.

1 posted on 12/09/2011 3:23:19 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

It is safer than the Chevy Volt. What’s the MPG of it?


2 posted on 12/09/2011 3:33:07 PM PST by ExCTCitizen (Cain/West 2012....what would the RACISTS LIBERALS say???)
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To: nickcarraway

It is the next generation of great ideas from Government Motors, what is the carbon footprint of this car?


3 posted on 12/09/2011 3:34:30 PM PST by Trueblackman (Posting on FR since 1998 and 100% teleprompter free post as well.)
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To: ExCTCitizen

Using the Volt method of determining mileage (where you ignore all energy input except gasoline), the Mentos car gets Unlimited MPG.


4 posted on 12/09/2011 3:35:23 PM PST by Bryanw92 (The solution to fix Congress: Nuke em from orbit. It's the only way to be sure!)
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To: nickcarraway

Great video! A couple of REAL Americans!


5 posted on 12/09/2011 3:39:36 PM PST by JennysCool (My hypocrisy goes only so far)
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To: nickcarraway

Daredevils??????? More like morons. 54 liters of zero? Must be government motors.


6 posted on 12/09/2011 3:40:24 PM PST by waynesa98
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To: ExCTCitizen
It is safer than the Chevy Volt. What’s the MPG of it?

11.356 Mentos per gallon.

7 posted on 12/09/2011 3:41:41 PM PST by KarlInOhio (Herman Cain: possibly the escapee most dangerous to the Democrats since Frederick Douglass.)
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To: nickcarraway
EHHHHH! Put some wings `n a tail on that sucker and aim it toward Penobscot.
8 posted on 12/09/2011 3:58:32 PM PST by bunkerhill7
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To: ExCTCitizen

Uh, that was FEET per gallon!! And, who gets to try to keep the streets clean while we car all traveling to gramma’s house for CHRISTmas in our Colacars.


9 posted on 12/09/2011 4:01:33 PM PST by wizr (If God isn't on your side, who is?)
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To: bunkerhill7

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNGhKhFoOhs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNyzwnQ2Qe8


10 posted on 12/09/2011 4:03:25 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Obamacar ping.

Thanks nickcarraway.


11 posted on 12/09/2011 5:43:38 PM PST by SunkenCiv (It's never a bad time to FReep this link -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Trueblackman

It must be HUGE!!! all it is is CO2 coming out of solution, right? BTW someone said 54L of Coke Zero, it should be 108L of Coke Zero (2L bottles, right?)


12 posted on 12/09/2011 10:01:54 PM PST by class8601_nuke (don't just be critical, be prompt critical.)
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