Solar splash.An electric boat powered only by the sun sped across water recently at a record 25 miles per hour. The Trojan Warrior, designed and built by engineering students at the University of Arkansas The University of Arkansas strives to be known as a "nationally competitive, student-centered research university serving Arkansas and the world." The school recently completed its "Campaign for the 21st Century," in which the university raised more than $1 billion for the school, used in Little Rock, sports an aluminum hull and an engine adapted from an industrial forklift. In last month's regatta regatta: see rowing; sailing. A high-end Unix-based pSeries server from IBM. Introduced in late 2001, the model p690 incorporates mainframe class self healing capabilities and partitioning to the pSeries (RS/6000) family for the first time. on Lake Michigan, the craft, powered by solar cells solar cell, semiconductor devised to convert light to electric current. It is a specially constructed diode, usually made of silicon crystal. When light strikes the exposed active surface, it knocks electrons loose from their sites in the crystal. and sun-charged batteries, raced 300 meters in 26.38 seconds. In a test of endurance, Golden Eagle, a hydrofoil hydrofoil, flat or curved finlike device, attached by struts to the hull of a watercraft, that lifts the moving watercraft above the water's surface. The term is often extended to include the vessel itself. built by Japan's Kanazawa Institute of Technology, traversed 30 kilometers in 2 hours. |
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