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...first man to travel the world in a renewable energy car pulled up to Harvard’s Faculty Club in his futuristic brainchild...
...dream came to be nearly 20 years later, when Palmer approached four Swiss universities that funded 200 students to work on the car. The students, aided by companies that donated various automobile parts, completed the project in three years...
...finished product is fully solar powered and emits no carbon dioxide. Half of the car’s energy is produced by solar panels on an attached trailer and is stored in two batteries. The car can go 55 mph for 200 miles on this alone...
...other half of the power, the car must be connected to an electrical outlet. To offset the carbon footprint this creates, Palmer installed six square-meter panels at his home in Switzerland, which contribute to the power grid...
...terror against civilians echoes a tactic used by Colombian drug gangs, who have long sold their cocaine to the Mexican crime families. During the 1980s and 1990s, the Medellin cartel responded to a government crackdown by killing hundreds of civilians with bombs placed on street corners, cars and even one passenger jet. Mexican gangs first started using bombs last February, when an alleged hitman blew himself up in a botched attempt on a police official. In July, two botched car bombs caught fire in the northern state of Sinaloa. The drug gangs have long used grenades in fighting with police...