Scientists unveil chocolate-fueled race car

AP on Yahoo ^ | 5/5/09 | Meera Selva - ap

[dirtboy]

The car runs on vegetable oils and chocolate waste that has been turned into biofuel. The steering wheel is made out of plant-based fibers derived from carrots and other root vegetables, and the seat is built of flax fibre and soybean oil foam. The body is also made of plant fibers.

Great. Park it in the driveway and come out the next morning to find it's been devoured by rabbits.

[Atlas Sneezed]

For the Hershey Highway?

[DonaldC]

How much fossil fuels are burned to create a green car?

[NormsRevenge]

It won’t be running at Indy this year, but they have had it up to 60 mph as they make adjustments and do additional testing and tweaking.

[subterfuge]

The car runs on vegetable oils and chocolate waste that has been turned into biofuel. The steering wheel is made out of plant-based fibers derived from carrots and other root vegetables, and the seat is built of flax fibre and soybean oil foam. The body is also made of plant fibers.

And in other news, chocolate wast, plant-based fibers, carrots and soybean prices skyrocketed.

[GlennBeck08]

All that is missing is the ranch dressing...

[Darksheare]

Do they know how much of this car will simply rot within three moths?
The big three in Detroit couldn’t POSSIBLY out do that amount of stupid.
And some of them worked pretty hard to make cars that broke quickly.

[Some hope remaining.]

Yep. There may be enough chocolate waste to fuel a few cars here and there but what do you do when everyone wants one? How many million barrels a day of chocolate will we have to make to replace oil?

[mikrofon]

Not a Ferrari or Rolls, but a Ferrero Rocher...

[NormsRevenge]

ya crash it, ya eat it.

[BuffaloJack]

Dumbest thing I’ve ever heard of.
Why use a material that is in short supply as a fuel?

[Darksheare]

BIOfuel.
Soylent fuel solutions for a better future..
*cough*

[CitizenUSA]

I’m thinking it was extremely complicated and expensive to build, and the raw materials are in short supply when compared to millions upon millions of drivers. Just how many cars do they actually think they can run on chocolate waste?

The truth? There are no easy solutions. Every engineering solution creates new problems, and the easiest and least expensive solutions are the ones most commonly used today. Oil and coal are just too easy to get and too easy to use compared to chocolate waste, flax seed, or whatever (although I wouldn’t mind eating the processed chocolate that resulted).

[ItsForTheChildren]

Soylent fuel solutions for a better future..

What's your MPP?

[Balding_Eagle]

powered by waste from chocolate factories

We used to feed our hogs outdated Snickers and Gummy Worms. Imagine a semiload of Gummy Worms. They were melted and mixed with the rest of the ingredients, corn, soybean meal vitamins etc. The hogs loved it.

[grjr21]

[Darksheare]

Fuel economy now measured in Miles Per Person!
*I’ve created a monster*

[Rebelbase]

"I got your fuel right here..."

[ItsForTheChildren]

So grandma can go with us on vacation after all!

Well... at least part of the way.