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世界上首款用残余巧克力做燃料，用胡萝卜、土豆淀粉和亚麻布等材料制成的F3赛车于近日问世。这款赛车最高时速可达135英里，能在2.5秒内起步加速至60英里，并且绝对环保。据介绍，这款赛车名为罗拉，是由英国华威大学的研究人员耗时9个多月，投入20万美元研制出来的。这款赛车的大部分材料都可以在集贸市场或垃圾堆里找到，报废后可以被埋入任何一个垃圾填埋点，不会对环境造成任何污染。另外，它的散热器还能在运行过程中把臭氧转换为氧气，因此，可以说是一款“自己污染、自行清理”的赛车。[文章版权 禁止转载:考试与评价 8Gq` ?A%5jSY~;i
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Fueled by leftover chocolate and with components made from carrots, potato starch and flax, the world's first sustainable Formula 3 racing car has a top speed of 135 miles per hour and can go from zero to 60 in 2.5 seconds.
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Sound nuts? Not yet -- brake pads made from cashews are still under development.
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Meet Lola, the England's University of Warwick's blend of muscle and eco-friendliness and the world's first racing car retrofitted with renewable and sustainable materials.
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Researchers from the British university showed off their prize possession at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT) energy conference in Boston.
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"She's incredibly green, taking materials that would otherwise have ended up in a landfill. It lets people engage with recycling without the finger-wagging," said Kerry Kirwan, one of the car's designers at the university.
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"The public has really taken the car to its heart, because she's fun," he said.
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Many of the car's components would more usually be found at a farmer's market -- or in a trash bin, since most of the materials are actually industrial waste.
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The 2.0-liter BMW engine has been converted to diesel from gasoline and configured to run on fuel derived from waste from chocolate factories or other plant-based oils.
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Among Lola's other unique features is a radiator that converts ozone back to oxygen.
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"It's a racing car that cleans up as it goes along," said Steve Maggs, another member of the design team.
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The World First Formula 3 racing car took the university more than nine months to develop and cost around $200,000.
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Kirwan said that the thinking behind the project was to find a way to really put recycled materials to the test.
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"A lot of these technologies were a huge leap of application, something that shows the material under a really demanding application."
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