Mentos + Coke = Rocket Science

Ever heard that mixing mentos with coke will create a blast of fun? Well that’s really yesteryear’s stuff, because now people are using it to research as a new form of energy! Well barely, as most part of it is for the fun. The folks over at EepyBird.com did an amazing engineering piece of art (if you call it an art), by mixing both mentos and coke zero, and using the pressure created to combust a car’s piston.

648 tins of mentos, and 108 bottles (2-litre type) of Coke Zero was used. And the structure of the car?

The car uses a piston mechanism: a six-foot long rod sits inside a six-foot long tube attached to each bottle of Coke Zero. When the Mentos drop into the soda, the pressure tries to push the rod out of the tube. With 108 rods all pushing at once, that gives us a lot of power.