• Question: will cars be poweed by wind in the furture

    Asked by dondon1 to Cathy, Jaz, Mark, Roma, Rory on 23 Jun 2014.
    • Photo: Jaz Rabadia

      Jaz Rabadia answered on 23 Jun 2014:


      Some great questions.

      Looks like you are into transport being more environmentally friendly !

      We already have wind powered transport… such as sailing boats..
      checkout this.. the fastest wind powered vehicle on Earth!
      http://www.greenbird.co.uk/

      i think its possible we will use some form of this in cars… but what happens when the wind dosnt blow?

      Jaz

    • Photo: Cathy Fraser

      Cathy Fraser answered on 23 Jun 2014:


      Why not! The wind is a great source of energy – although, when it doesn’t blow there is an issue!

      I’m not sure if this will happen in the future, it’s something that is possible – but I can’t see it being a all-the-time solution!

    • Photo: Mark Greaves

      Mark Greaves answered on 23 Jun 2014:


      You could use a wind turbine to charge an electric car…I reckon that is about as good as you may get from wind power.

    • Photo: Roma Agrawal

      Roma Agrawal answered on 23 Jun 2014:


      That sounds like fun! I hope they can make cars with big turbines attached on top- would be funny!

    • Photo: Rory Hadden

      Rory Hadden answered on 24 Jun 2014:


      Not directly, I don’t think. But as Mark says wind is a great renewable resource (as well as solar, tidal and other) that can be used to generate electricity to power cars (and lots of other things too!)

      Rory

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