The Quiet Achiever
The Quiet Achiever, also known as the BP Solar Trek, was the world's first practical long-distance solar-powered car powered entirely by photovoltaic solar cells. In December 1982, the Australian-made, British Petroleum (BP)-sponsored car performed the first manned transcontinental journey using only solar power, traversing Australia from west to east. The project was promoted by Hans Tholstrup, and the car was developed by the car's driver Larry Perkins and his brother Garry.
Description
The Quiet Achiever was hand-built by Larry and Garry Perkins. The body skin was made of fiberglass, while the skeleton framework was constructed of steel tubing, similar to what might be used in lightweight aircraft. The car had a large curved frontal window for the driver to see through, and side windows of clear fiberglass. The vehicle had a photovoltaic power system rated at 1 kilowatt, which powered it to an average speed of 14 miles per hour (23 km/h). The car's roof-mounted solar array consisted of two rows of ten 36-cell solar panels that were joined together, giving a total roof area of around 91 square feet (8.5 m2).
The Quiet
The Quiet is a 2005 American drama-thriller film directed by Jamie Babbit, and starring Camilla Belle and Elisha Cuthbert. It focuses on a deaf-mute teenage girl, Dot (Belle) who goes to live with her godparents (played by Martin Donovan and Edie Falco) after her father dies, where she slowly learns the disturbing secrets of the family, primarily concerning their teenage daughter, Nina (Cuthbert).
The film was acquired by Destination Films, which released this film in the United States theatrically through Sony Pictures Classics on August 25, 2006, and marketed with the tagline: "Isn't it time everyone hears your secrets?".
The film's soundtrack features songs by Low, Cat Power, Le Tigre, and numerous Beethoven piano sonatas.
Many reviewers complained that it was sleazy, exploitative, and difficult to watch, and that it was too serious to be satire, yet too camp to be taken seriously.
Plot
Dot (Camilla Belle) is a young, orphaned, deaf and mute teenager. After the death of her also deaf father, she is sent to live with her godparents and their daughter Nina (Elisha Cuthbert), with whom she used to be close friends. However, she soon learns the secrets her new family withhold from the rest of the world as well as from one another.
The Quiet (album)
The Quiet is Bella Morte's first album released on Metropolis Records.
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The Quiet
by: Bella MorteAs the rain washes distance from her voice
Something stirs beneath us
And hope awakens to the calm
In the depth of her eyes a promise sleeps
Resting soft, unspoken
In dormant dreams as blue as dawm
May sees the first light shine again
Into a night without an end
And the fear echoes deep within the heart
As I tempt forever
To find her way into my arms
With the dark comes another sleepless night
Longing for the moment
That two wil stand against the world
And through the years one night remains
As clear as trust beneath the rain
In your eyes see this life
Please don't turn away tonight
Or ever more
Let us cry, let us try
We are one within the night
And ever more
We are one, you and I
Please don't turn away tonight
Or ever more
I can see all the fears that lie inside
Please don't turn away tonight
Or ever more
In your eyes see this life
Please don't turn away tonight
Or ever more
Let us cry, let us try
We are one within the night
And ever more