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Originally Posted by Urban Hawk

well you said post my ideas on the fans so here it is:

we aren't planning fans on our robot because they might provide some power but on the whole they probably won't do much. the only real effective means would to be to use a vacuuming unit with its intake on the bottom and its outage on the top to pull it down on the field. The problem with that though is that vacuum's use allot of power and can easily drain a battery. So because of that we decided not to do either.

Your Idea isn't as original as you think, Brabham used the Idea in the 1978 Formula 1 season, It was banned after one race.