Fastest Solar Powered Vehicle - Guinness World Record by Aussies

New South Wales University team is hoping that the solar power will lead them to a Guinness world record for fastest solar-powered vehicle.

“We’ve beaten the record by ten kilometers per hour,” an excited spokesman for UNSW told reporters.

He stated that the solar racer reached a speed of 54.6 mph (88 km/h), but the team believes it can get the car to go faster than 55.9 mph (90 km/h).

The fastest solar vehicle is powered by silicon solar cells which capture energy from the sun; IVy broke the official Guinness World Record in a time-trial on Friday

79 km/h (49 mph) is the previous world record for Fastest Solar Car in the world. The little solar car hit a top speed of 64 mph (103 km/h) during a race from Darwin to Adelaide back in 2009 and the same has broke the record several times in trial runs earlier on Friday unofficially.

Professional drivers Barton Mawer and Craig Davis at IVy’s controls ran official speed test at the HMAS Albatross naval base at Nowra on the New South Wales coast, south of Sydney.

IVy normally uses its solar cells to charge a 25kg storage battery, but same was removed for the Guinness world record attempt as vehicles trying to break the Guinness world speed record for a solar car are required to be powered only by solar cells.

The solar car generates about 1,200 watts in strong sunlight, which is equivalent power as a household toaster uses.

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World's Largest Green Santa Sculpture World Record set by Sudarsan Pattnaik

While People from all over the World celebrating Christmas, on this occasion Santa Claus is appearing in green colour sand and enjoying under the blue sky on golden beach of Puri with spreading the massage of “Go Green” for global warming in the world.

Sudarsan Pattnaik, Internationally acclaimed sand artist from Orissa created world’s longest Santa Claus on sand at Golden beach of Puri on the occasion of Christmas Eve. Pattnaik created 160ft long santa claus for “Limca Book of world Record” to break his won record which was created by him on 2006 for 100ft long sand Santa claus.

Vijaya Ghosh, editor of Limca Book of world record given consent to Mr. Pattnaik by an email to proceed.

For this sculpture Sudarsan with his 15 students of his sand art institute are assisting him to create this. The sculpture is 160 ft long, 30 ft wide and 30 ft high, using 15, 00 tons of sand and he took 16 hours to complete it. He also used green color sand for spreading global warming awareness.

Pattnaik stated that Puri is the place where sand art started in the 14th century and the tourist inflow into Puri is another reason why I chose Santa as the subject at this time of the year.

So far Sudarsan has participated in more than 42 international sand sculpture championships across the world and won many awards including 2008 world championship title at Berlin for the country. Pattnaik also running a sand art school at Puri Beach in Orissa.

120 Minutes in Ice Container, Ice Bath World Record Set by Jin Songhao

Unique competition of ice bath was held at Hubei province, China, where Jin Songhao managed to stay within Ice container for 120 minutes, which lead him to set New World Record.

China’s most experienced icemen, Jin Songhao and Chen Kecai, has smashed previous world record for the longest ice bath.

Wim Hof, Ice Man, a Dutch fellow was the previous world record holder for longest ice bath with 115 minutes, but Chen Kecai, the previous record holder, wasn’t about to just sit by and watch his title get snatched right from under him. Together with fellow iceman Jin Songhao, they staged their own cold-enduring event, on January 3rd, in Zhangjiajie, Hunan Province.

Jin Songhao and Chen Kecai, The two daredevils immersed themselves in plastic boxes and were covered with ice cubes, up to their necks. Within just 40 minutes Kecai started shivering, but he insisted the doctors let him see his challenge through to the end. Eventually, he managed to stay in the box for 118 minutes, thus beating his Dutch rival’s record. Unfortunately for him, Jin Songhao lasted 120 minutes and is the new holder of the record for the world’s longest ice bath. Well, at least Chen Kecai can take comfort in the fact that he lost to a fellow Chinaman.