Wind powered cheer
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Photo credit – Peter Lyons
Back in the UK now. I’ve been on holiday for a week, which is a rare event (ask my partner… 🙂 ) and sod’s law determined that an even rarer event would coincide with that – the perfect conditions for a land speed record attempt.
My disappointment at not being there though was marginal compared to the huge excitement of the result – the smashing of the record.
All the credit for this goes to Richard Jenkins of course (with just a little to the gods of wind… 🙂 ).
Richard’s the guy who’s been pursuing this dream for a decade. To say he’s dogged would be an enormous understatement. (more…)
Greenbird smashes world record
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Hiya – Paul here standing in for Dale.
Just thought you might like to know this bit of breaking news from over on the Greenbird site 😀
Richard and the Ecotricity Greenbird have only gone and smashed the World Land Speed Record for Wind Powered Vehicles!!!
Yay!! Big congrats from all of us Richard!
More details to come soon….
Greenbird rattling Top Gear’s cage
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We thought the Greenbird had flown silently past the deafening roar of Top Gear towers, but we were wrong. Check out this link to watch the good ol’ Top Gear boys practically combusting internally at the prospect of cars powered by the wind. They got the wrong end of the stick of course – the fun end of the stick though – shame it ended up in the out-take bin…
Our record attempt thwarted by climate change
TransportThis year’s Greenbird land record attempt is a washout. I didn’t even get to Australia…
The lake is normally dry in September, but this year it’s wet due to uncharacteristic rain fall. There was over 29 mm more rain in July and August this year than 2007. And July had twice its monthly average fall in 2 days at the end of the month. Plus August had its monthly average quota fall over just 12 hours. These unusual and changing weather patterns, typical results of the impact of climate change, have scuppered our record attempt. (more…)
Looking for Green Gold
down under…
TransportHard on the heels of a record Olympics for the Brits…….:)
I’m off to Oz in a few days to join the Greenbird team and attempt to take the world land speed record – powered only by the wind.
Greenbird, the awesome looking craft in the picture above, we named as a nod to Donald Campbell and his historic Bluebird. We reckon the world is at a watershed, the age of fossil fuels is passing and we’re moving (back) to the age of renewable energy – Greenbird symbolises this perhaps better then anything else.
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