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Re: tanks!!

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Originally posted by tenfour
Why is fuel an issue. Just mount more tanks on the rover. Make it real nice.

Seriously, the real challenge here is not mechanical. I think that we could easily get the controls mounted and designed. We could also easily mount the sensors. The difficult part is in the programming. We need to find a few "cracker-jack" programmers that can program a concrete block.
Unfortunately, it may not necessarily be as simple as increasing the amount of fuel, though that it the most obvious solution.

To do things efficiently, it's a matter of balancing fuel economy with fuel consumption. You could use one of those small RC Gas engines, but their consider how much fuel you'd have to carry on board to make the entire trip. I doubt that engine is capable of moving the weight of the necessary fuel over that distance, nevermind everything else.

Also, keeping something from breaking itself while operating in harsh conditions over ten hours is a mechanical issue. It's not a cake walk for the design of the vehicle itself, either.
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