Solar Swedes
In what is becoming a common sight on the Stuart Highway in Australia, teams in the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge tilt their solar panels towards the sun to get the last few drops of energy into...
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This amazing looking car is named Priscilla and was put together by the Australian Technology Network, which is a collaboration between five universities in Victoria, New South Wales, South Australia,...
View ArticleHover Car
This beautiful machine which appears to hover is called Violet, A solar powered cruiser from the Sunswift team, based at the University of New South Wales. The Cruiser class of vehicles have much more...
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Solar Ute
This Solar Ute is the most unique vehicle at the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge. I arrived in Adelaide just after the last team crossed the finish line. Fortunately, the lovely people from Tafe SA...
View ArticleFinal Parade
This is the Cambridge University Eco Racing teams car, Helia, leaving the centre of Adelaide a few moments ago for the final parade of the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge. It has been an epic race of...
View ArticleDust Storm
I drove through this dust storm shortly after crossing the border from South Australia into Victoria earlier today. I have never experienced anything like it before. I did not expect it to include...
View ArticleCherry Sacrifice
This is Paul, a Horticulturalist from the Cherry Dale Orchard in New South Wales. He is stood in front of his oldest cherry trees which he has been forced to let die so his only water source, a...
View ArticleSnooze Smoke
The is the smoke from the New South Wales fires in Coopernook Forest. Although this forest was not on fire the smoke has been hard to avoid as it currently covers almost all of the North-East corner of...
View ArticleNew Year
Happy New Year 2020. Like much of Sydney, I have been asking myself whether to do the fireworks this year considering the city is surrounded by bushfires. My solution is this picture, created from the...
View ArticleState Forest
This is the Hampton Pine Plantation near Oberon. There has been a good dose of rain in the last week which has helped suppress many of the fires in Australia. Most of the national parks in the Great...
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