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Rutgers solar race car team receives 1st vehicle BRENDAN BRIGHTMAN STAFF WRITER
The Rutgers solar race car team received a vehicle from a team at Stanford University. Three club members traveled to California to pick up the solar-powered car to bring it to New Jersey. They brought it back in a U-Haul, which saved costs. COURTESY OF ANTHONY SCALIA
The Rutgers Solar Car Team has obtained its first solar-powered vehicle from Stanford University, which it will work on to ultimately use in the Formula Sun Grand Prix race in July. Anthony Scalia, a School of Engineering junior, said the car is 65 percent complete, with missing parts such as the motor and wheels. The solar-powered race car needs to be repaired after it was used by Stanford University in the Australian World Solar Challenge in 2015. To get the vehicle, three team members flew out to California and brought it back in a U-Haul, he said. “(The solar car) is a student-college project,” Scalia said. “They are very similar to the cars you race around a track, but the solar cars take it a step forward from that.” The solar cars have improved since they were built in the 1980s. At the time, they could travel 15 to 20 miles per hour and could seat one person at
a time. Today, solar cars drive on roads and highways as fast as 55 miles per hour and seat up to five passengers. “It has been exciting to see these competitions go from just one person in one car, treating (solar-powered cars) like race cars, to making them more practical,” Scalia said. The new car provides physical proof of the work the team is doing, he said. In past years, when the team did not have a car, members would pitch to potential sponsors with pictures of other solar cars or sketches. The team was able to raise $3,000 from sponsorships from the Alumni Association, Conti Solar, football concessions and Governors Ball concessions. “We are hoping that we can sort of use this to leapfrog into an established team,” Scalia said. The team also works out of a packaging building on Busch campus, which is slated for demolition in four months. A new garage is planned to be built and completed in two years, Scalia said. SEE VEHICLE ON PAGE 5
Study finds new way to predict sea breezes CATHERINE NGUYEN STAFF WRITER
A Rutgers study has developed a new technique using advanced forecasting to interpret sea breezes, benefiting the offshore wind farms industry by making them a more predictable source of energy, according to Rutgers Today. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientist Greg Seroka, who received his Ph.D. in physical oceanography from Rutgers, said how sea breezes behave and how oceans affect them has largely been a mystery until his team developed the technique. Seroka, the lead author of the study, collaborated with associate professor Josh Kohut, assistant professor Travis Miles and distinguished professor Scott Glenn in the Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences. “We have developed a technique to characterize and predict sea breezes, which could be critically beneficial for of fshore wind turbine construction planning, operations and maintenance — and help make wind a reliable substitute for fossil fuels,” Seroka said. The team conducted research on sea breezes crossing the New Jersey Wind Energy Area, which
is a zone off of Ocean, Atlantic and Cape May counties designated for the construction of huge wind turbines. Their study combines statistical analysis and weather forecasting to interpret sea breezes both nearshore and offshore, the first of its kind. Nearshore breezes blow towards the beach from the ocean, while offshore breezes blow the opposite direction, towards the ocean. During the summer, sea breezes occur on warmer afternoons when there is a higher demand for energy. These conditions change when winds from other directions push water on the surface of oceans away from the shore. This causes the water that hits beaches to be colder, since it came from the bottom of the ocean, which not only chills swimmers but also makes sea breezes from offshore more intense and occur earlier. According to the study, winds on land, or land breezes, prevent nearshore breezes from moving more inland, but do not have much effect on offshore sea breezes. With these findings, offshore sea breezes will be more predictable for the offshore wind industry. The Rutgers researchers hope to improve their predictions by learning more about the various kinds of sea breezes.
Two types of sea breezes are nearshore and offshore. Nearshore breezes blow toward the beach, while offshore breezes blow toward the ocean. Land breezes can prevent nearshore breezes from coming inland, but not offshore breezes. FLICKR
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