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F1 to trial own paddock power station to slash carbon emissions (www.motorsport.com)

submitted 1 year ago by The_one_and_only to c/[email protected]

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A bit off-topic, but I thought it was worth a mention :)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Super cool idea (I don't think it's off-topic at all!). I like how they're doing a blend of vegetable oil and solar as well. Ideally it would be fully carbon free but I can't imagine the logistics of traveling with enough solar/wind/etc to power everything. Ideally to get certification all of these tracks will be required to provide 100% carbon free energy to the paddock in the future. That way they can do bigger permanent installations (or just source carbon free energy from the local electric utility)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm also betting that trialing this is a way to strong arm circuits into compliance with a "see? We can do it and travel". Street courses may remain a challenge, bit they likely also have a better grid to pull from than some remote facilities.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah that was kinda my thought too. Have the purpose-built race tracks build their own clean power generation, and have the street courses contract with their electricity provider to provide clean energy