Pat Bayers, 57, suggests designing a waterfront park along the river in New Port Richey with easy access for canoes, kayaks, paddleboards and outrigger boats, complete with a place to dock or store them. “New Port Richey has beautiful riverfront areas with abandoned buildings that could become a mecca for paddlers and for folks wanting to picnic or walk,” she wrote. Seems worth a look in other places as well. Several of the designs for the new St. Petersburg pier include features that would suit kayaking and water activities.
After Solyndra went belly up, Issa held a hearing called “How Obama’s Green Energy Agenda is Killing Jobs,” during which he accused the Obama administration of waging a “war on carbon-based energy” and exaggerating claims of new “green jobs.”
“During the same time, we continued development of our patent-pending composite manufacturing system that enables energy efficient vehicle production by drastically reducing vehicle weight (by as much as 30%) while tripling its strength. This same patent pending system allowed us to finish the surface of our composites without manual finishing and without the high capital cost of a typical automotive paint shop. In all, the process would save nearly $750-million versus a typical volume auto assembly plant start-up.
“Young people want transit and young people are what a city needs to keep it thriving,” he wrote. “Once we have a great transit system, downtown Tampa will flourish even more, creating a central hub where people can actually live.”
“By making the region more commuter, visitor and student friendly (as well as relieving significant amounts of congestion), the feel of the whole area is improved,” wrote Lauren Berns of St. Petersburg.
As with most cars in the competition, the thing looks like a thin, worn-down bar of soap with a bubble for the driver’s head: both the drag coefficient (a trout-like 0.11) and the frontal area (I’m guessing about 1 m², but probably less) are trimmed to the most absurd imaginable limits. From these numbers, I compute a freeway-speed aerodynamic drag of about 60 Newtons and a rolling resistance of about 25 N, for a total of 85 N: about 35 percent of what we computed for a “comfortable” car. Solving for the speed at which the combination of air drag plus rolling resistance requires 1.8 kW of power input, I get 26 m/s, or 94 km/h, or 58 m.p.h., which is very close to the reported speed.