N. Korea: NK tries out solar-powered bus

Korea Times ^ | 2015-11-02 | Kim Hyo-jin

[Kirkwood]

The bus only goes downhill.

[smokingfrog]

3200 watts equals about 4 horsepower.

[Graybeard58]

Those panels wouldn’t power two of my wife’s hair driers and they want me to believe it carried 140 people as well as the weight of the bus at 40 k/pH?... yeah, sure...

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My thoughts as well. 140 NORK adults, about 10,000 pounds maybe, (if a few of them are “over weight”), plus as you said, the weight of the bus..........didn’t happen.

[Eagles6]

And China uses the norks to sell their missile and nuke weapons tech, giving the implausible deniability.

Yeah. A country that can't produce a bicycle thought up a nuke on it's own.

[beaware]

That is plenty enough to run the radio, windshield wipers and the automatic windows... if you read the article carefully, they never say that the motor was used for actual propulsion...

[palmer]

According to reports, state propaganda released by the ruling Workers' Party in February reads, "Develop and make effective use of wind, tidal, geothermal and solar energy."

Sounds just like our state propaganda.

[TigerLikesRooster]

NK is a role model for certain U.S. inhabitants. For example, they don't waste energy. At night NK is almost pitch-black as you can see from a satellite picture. They yearn for the same pitch-black night so that folks in S. Carolina could see Northern lights at night.

[JRios1968]