I’d have to drive up there first, wasting fuel. I don’t think this would work out too well.

Posted at 1:57 pm on Oct 1st, 2008 by Spork

How about a car that runs on blood?

Posted at 2:01 pm on Oct 1st, 2008 by spawn

That’d be cool, but how would you get the blood to light???

Posted at 2:17 pm on Oct 1st, 2008 by jasol

Oh if only I lived ANYWHERE(!!) but northern Idaho… I want an excuse to build a fully-electric or hydrogen-electric hybrid I’ve had running around my head for the last year. Alas, I am but a poor college student.

Posted at 2:50 pm on Oct 1st, 2008 by Yoshi

what about an engine running on cigarette butts? there should be plenty around a highway

Posted at 4:23 pm on Oct 1st, 2008 by hajma

@yoshi–you can trade me hometowns. I hope you like emptiness because thats what you’ll get in the middle of the nebraska sand hills. I’ll enjoy your mountains and snow and skiing and hiking and fishing and everything else.

Posted at 6:05 pm on Oct 1st, 2008 by mike

I’d love to make a plug-in series hybrid style car (see chevy volt) but rather then drive the generator/charger via petrol I’d use some sort of steam engine. Probably not all that much wood/burnables along the roadside but it’d be neat to build.

Posted at 7:26 pm on Oct 1st, 2008 by david

@yoshi – I grew up there! Most of my friends just graduated from UofI (I got the hell out before that).

I recommend building a 10×8 foot kite. We did that one summer. Also a trebuchet, and a 33 ft. wingspan hang glider that was fun for running down hills (although hardly flight-capable).

Although I certainly don’t miss the snow, I don’t have the space and freedom to play with fire, medieval seige weapons, etc. that I did when I was up there. Besides, your university has one of the best electric car groups out there, doesn’t it?

Posted at 8:47 am on Oct 2nd, 2008 by Roy

Escape from Berkeley and head for Stanford! :)

Posted at 11:26 am on Oct 2nd, 2008 by Ford Prefect

Can I use plutonium for fuel that’s not oil?

Posted at 9:49 pm on Oct 4th, 2008 by Membrane

@ david that actually might be a way to win the competition though you also can use whats known as a gassifier and run a normal IC engine on gassified wood and trash.
The stock ECU might have to be replaced with a mega squirt controller to make it work with a gassifier if one doesn’t want to bother with reverse engineering the factory ECU’s code.

Posted at 9:55 pm on Oct 4th, 2008 by Membrane

Who *wouldn’t* want to escape from Berkeley?

They could probably scavenge enough patchouli oil on Telegraph Ave to run a VW Microbus all the way.

Posted at 11:26 am on Oct 11th, 2008 by John

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