If you’re going to drive around in a solar-powered vehicle, you might as well make it a snazzy one. Enter the Terrestrial Shrub Rover, a solar-powered vehicle that looks, as you may have guessed, exactly like a large shrub.
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How can a \’car\’ without any solar panels be solar powered?
It’s easy… the sun provides energy to plants, photosynthesis occurs and they grow. They get eaten by animals and small dinosaurs, then larger dinsaurs eat the smaller dinosaurs. Eventually, they all die, and the sun once again lends a helping hand to cause them to decompose. Hundreds of millions of years later, underground pockets filled with fossil fuels are exploited to remove and process the surrounding natural gas, rendering it usable in natural gas electric generation plants. These plants generate electricity that is shipped to the the terrestrial rover via “extension cord” which charges its batteries. Le voila… solar powered electric (shrub) car!
I pity the dog that lifts a leg on this shrub — zap! ouch!
Why?
We are the knights that say NEE and we demand a shrubbery!!!
Very awesome article. Truely..
If I had a nickel for each time I came to http://www.inhabitat.com... Superb post!
Honey, the car needs mowing…
That shrub moves at a pretty good clip!
hahah this is fantastic!!
derek