Kingman, Arizona had an excellent vista.
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A view up from the hotel
Looking around Kingman:
Since I do not have a photo of the University of Arizona solar car team somewhere in Arizona, I have decided to share this little story here. Somewhere in Arizona the University of Arizona team stopped on the side of the road to resolve some issues with their car. Once resolved, the team went back on the road and accidently left behind a box labeled "Battery Box". The Arizona highway police came across this box. Just to digress a little, the word "battery" has a few different meanings depending on context. According to
Merriam-Webster, "battery" can mean "use of force on a person without the person's consent", "a single cell that furnishes electric current", "a number of similar articles, items, or devices arranged, connected, or used together" or "a grouping of artillery pieces for tactical purposes". Which one did the police think of when they saw the words "Battery Box"? The last one. So they took the box into the desert and blew it up. Yes, really. And what was in the box? Tools.
Next morning:
Purdue University departing
MIT
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology with University of Missouri - Rolla
Lincoln Land College
A unique feature of Lincoln Land's solar car was that it used a hybrid power system of a solar array with batteries and a hydrogen fuel cell.
