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Challenge vehicle could travel 3,300 miles on gallon of fuel

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If the aims of projects such as these are research and education - then telling youngsters that Engineering is all about 'squeezing more out of less' is rather dispiriting. 'Gosh if we could only use balsa wood or carbon composites for those canal boats we could use 1 fewer ponies on the tow path' More inspiring would be 'faster, higher, bolder'....(which btw are ultimately more beneficial for mankind and likely to generate totally new kinds of propulsion (some of which may not even emit carbon) on the way).

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3 May 2012

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5:54 pm

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