CleanTechnica’s last two articles about the zero-fuel Solar Impulse plane flying around the world described a visit to the plane’s temporary hangar in the Lehigh Valley of Pennsylvania and interviews with the craft’s two Swiss pilot/adventurers, Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg. However, our continuing coverage dates back to 2009. (See … [continued]
I don’t think I’ll ever look up again when I hear a plane overhead. The finest flights, like a bird’s, are now soundless to me. The drone of internal combustion engines is no longer state of the art for aviation. By powering human flight, a new kind of energy has … [continued]
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The major causes of climate change and air pollution are the burning of fossil fuels for electrical generation and transportation. Bill Gates accepts that but thinks that technical solutions don’t exist already and need to be discovered. Thiel doesn’t even accept climate change, but still thinks we need to invest … [continued]
Originally published on The Climate Reality Project. The sky’s the limit? Not when you #PutSolarOnIt Solar power is a technology with extraordinary potential. With all the advances in efficiency, cost, energy storage, and flexibility – and cells improving seemingly every day – you can put solar on practically anything. Houses? … [continued]
Aviation has always been an industry greatly affected by technology, since without it, there would be no industry at all. Numerous technological advancements and shifts have occurred over the years with remarkable regularity, too. From concerns over fuel efficiency and airline profitability to increased safety measures and attempts to improve … [continued]
Originally published on 1Sun4All. BREAKING NEWS from Solar Impulse 2 (Si2): Irreversible Damage To Overheated Batteries In Si2 Pushes The Second Half Of Round-The-World Solar Flight To Early Spring 2016. Despite the hard work of the team to repair the batteries which overheated in the record-breaking oceanic flight from Nagoya to Hawaii, Si2 will stay in Hawaii until … [continued]
Originally published on 1Sun4All. In the latest news from Solar Impulse 2 (Si2), the team says that, despite having completed the longest and most difficult leg of the round-the-world solar flight — the record-breaking oceanic flight of 5 days and 5 nights (117 hours and 52 minutes) in a solar-powered airplane — the record-breaking aircraft of Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg has suffered battery damages … [continued]
Originally published on 1Sun4All. You may already have seen the announcement that Solar Impulse 2 (Si2) arrived safely in Hawaii on Friday, July 3. Now you can read all the stats in the latest news from Solar Impulse: The longest and most difficult leg of the round-the-world solar flight attempted since last March … [continued]
