{"id":15083,"date":"2009-06-25T20:38:52","date_gmt":"2009-06-26T03:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=15083"},"modified":"2009-06-26T15:09:50","modified_gmt":"2009-06-26T22:09:50","slug":"sailing-automobile-misc-record-breaking-wind-powered-car-gives-a-glimpse-of-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=15083","title":{"rendered":"Sailing Automobile Misc. &#8211; Record-breaking wind-powered car gives a glimpse of the future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Just as the Formula 1 technologies of today filter down into the production cars of tomorrow, so Richard Jenkins, the designer of the wind-powered Greenbird, believes the technologies behind his record-breaking vehicle could herald a new era of environmentally-friendly transportation. Jon Severn reports.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">On the morning of 26th March 2009 at Ivanpah Dry Lake on the California\/Nevada border, USA, the Ecotricity Greenbird broke the world land speed record for wind-powered vehicles. Greenbird recorded a top speed of 126.4mph (203.4km\/h), and sustained a speed of 126.2mph (203.1km\/h) for the required time of three seconds, beating the previous, American held, record of 116mph (186.7km\/h), set by Bob Schumacher in the Iron Duck in March 1999 at the same location (Fig.1).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Greenbird project is a partnership between &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engineerlive.com\/Power-Engineer\/Renewable_Energy\/Record-breaking_wind-powered_car_gives_a_glimpse_of_the_future\/21861\/\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<center>[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just as the Formula 1 technologies of today filter down into the production cars of tomorrow, so Richard Jenkins, the designer of the wind-powered Greenbird, believes the technologies behind his record-breaking vehicle could herald a new era of environmentally-friendly transportation. Jon Severn reports. On the morning of 26th March 2009 at Ivanpah Dry Lake on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,7,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-misc","category-automobile","category-sailing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15083"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15224,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15083\/revisions\/15224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}