A bit off-topic, but I thought it was worth a mention :)

  • kiddblur@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Super cool idea (I don’t think it’s off-topic at all!). I like how they’re doing a blend of vegetable oil and solar as well. Ideally it would be fully carbon free but I can’t imagine the logistics of traveling with enough solar/wind/etc to power everything. Ideally to get certification all of these tracks will be required to provide 100% carbon free energy to the paddock in the future. That way they can do bigger permanent installations (or just source carbon free energy from the local electric utility)

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      1 year ago

      I’m also betting that trialing this is a way to strong arm circuits into compliance with a “see? We can do it and travel”. Street courses may remain a challenge, bit they likely also have a better grid to pull from than some remote facilities.

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        1 year ago

        Yeah that was kinda my thought too. Have the purpose-built race tracks build their own clean power generation, and have the street courses contract with their electricity provider to provide clean energy