PIAXP April 2009 Registered Teams B-Roll Footage

On April 7, the Progressive Automotive X PRIZE announced a complete list of the 111 Registered Teams. Watch a 3-minute B Roll video update on the competition.

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[Anothercoilgun]

Winner better not use gas at all. I will be pissed.

[bennymcfarlane]

This would be an interesting contest if it was meant for electric cars.

[rstevewarmorycom]

@juankrlox Lead is far too easy and valuable to recycle, it only takes

550 F degrees to remelt it. And lithium is harmless in the environment,

it's the lightest metal if you don't count hydrogen as a metal, even

though it is! And it's just rare enough to be significantly profitable

to recycle it, and it's easy to recycle.

[rstevewarmorycom]

@juankrlox Vehicles are 45%, followed by electrical

generation from coal, gas, and diesel at 38%, and the

rest is distributed among industrial processes like cooking

the CO2 out of limestone Ca(CO3) for concrete. The carbon

from fossil fuels has less C14 in it, which is how they can

demonstrate its origin, ancient plants have the same balance of

carbon isotopes, old plants mean fossil fuels, and who's burning

fossil fuels if not us? It's not volcanos, & not animals, from the

isotopes.

[juankrlox]

@rstevewarmorycom poor countries dispose their wastes to the sea or anywhere cheaper than recycling.. anyway you may be right.. but I dont think that cars are the main source of carbon emissions

[MyMMC]

zero tracer probably the fastest...

but this thing tcost fucking 100k .-(

[rstevewarmorycom]

@ClownFight If you don't believe any of this is necessary to avoid

an extreme hit to our complete way of life, I think you have a lot more reading to do. The one thing that might save us if it hurries up is the

decline in petroleum extraction because the fields are running dry.

If prices on petrol go up fast enough it might just limit the otherwise

expected mass deaths in the third world and in desert regions.

[rstevewarmorycom]

@ClownFight And mandate LED lighting only for interior lighting, and expansion

of mass transit and extremely high efficiency vehicles, such as

light weight electric enclosed vehicles using much lighter materials

and bicycle/moped level structural technology, and limit airline

travel encouraging and giving tax incentives for teleconferencing

and minimizing materials transport to necessities, and then expand

solar and wind based renewable energy with the materials and energy

saved.

[rstevewarmorycom]

@ClownFight You don't "get" much. And donkeys

aren't important. We can't breed enough horses in time.

What we need is to curtail unnecessary travel, by mandating

housing near place of work, maximizing weatherization and

insulation and solar self-heating capacity of buildings using

proper glazing and reflectors, and mandate limits on how far

food can be shipped if there are similar foods available locally.

[ClownFight]

@rstevewarmorycom OK, I get it now. You're a carbon nutjob who believes your own bullshit that the world will end in 30 years unless we all ride donkeys. Do the world a favor and speed up the process by 29 years and kill yourself now to avoid the rush.

Where do you people come from? Friggen moonbats. Sheesh.

[rstevewarmorycom]

@cdowell1976 The problem is that the rich back what

they think will sell, and they don't actually know shit about

that, so they often back losers. They think they know what

is feasible, and they don't, so they lose some money and

run away screaming behind them. Rich people are spoiled

assholes who have no education in what will work or what

will sell, yet to them is entrusted the future of technology.

Better we left it to scientists and get something that works

decently at least.

[rstevewarmorycom]

@kousoulides What you don't realize

is that Chevy and Ford and etc are well-known NOT because

their shit worked the best, it usually didn't, but because it

looked like something they could make cheap and sucker

people into buying, and then the rich made it famous by

throwing great gobs of money at it and stupid commercials

talking about your masculinity and your sex life to make you

think you needed it to get laid or think you weren't just a putz.