Word: sockets
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...Hope the Boat" --the opening chords of which are a dead ringer for those of Al Stewart's "Year of the Cat" --uses real rock violin, not just classical violin juxtaposed with a rock beat. And in "Overflow," Herlihy plays the socket wrench, with intriguing results...
...transportation and one of the designers of the GM Sunraycer, winner of the 1987 World Solar Challenge across Australia. To run dependably on cloudy days, a solar car would have to carry sufficient power to make the trip on batteries alone. Better to charge the car from a wall socket and use the solar cells elsewhere -- perhaps at power stations to ease the load of generators running on nuclear or nonrenewable fossil fuels. The real value of Sunraycer, says MacCready, was that its improvements in aerodynamics, lightweight materials and motor technology made possible GM's Impact, a non-solar electric...