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I worked on solar racing cars as a student. The main race crosses outback Australia. One of the questions we often got: Does it have A/C?

No, no it doesn’t. A/C uses about as much power as all of the solar cells on the car deliver. We can either move, or power an A/C-unit.

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36 points

Isn’t the outback pretty hot? Think I would channel that power to the A/C and the radio and just include legholes.

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20 points

Yabba dabba dooo!

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13 points

That sounds like a hell of an awesome project

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4 points

It is!

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8 points

We run the A/C until the car is cool, then we move. The rest of the crew is with me on this.

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5 points

So what do you do? Ice vest?

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6 points

Jup. They do that. After an edition of the challenge where someone fainted and crashed due to the heat, they also added regulations for airflow. It might be hot outside-air, but that is still way better than inside-over air.

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4 points

Sometimes, but they only work for so long. Mostly just bring plenty water and power through. Every stint is about 4 hours of driving, and then drivers change.

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4 points

Hope you don’t need a fire suit!

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2 points

What about an evaporative cooler?

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7 points

Either too heavy (these vehicles are below 200kg) or it doesnt work long enough. Or you’re now hot and humid, which is worse than hot and dry

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Wow 200kg is super light. No room for water weight in one of those, makes sense!

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Come on’n get your jamaharon on! There are no real rules—just don’t break the weather control network.

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