Solar Powered Aircraft Takes to the Skies
Leave it to the Swiss to come up with some incredible new challenge. A few weeks ago there was a guy that strapped wings and rockets to himself and actually flew around pretty fast without killing himself. Now, there are people that are coming close to realizing the close to impossible. Direct from solarimpulse:
In a world depending on fossil energies, the Solar Impulse project is a paradox, almost a provocation: it aims to have an airplane take off and fly autonomously, day and night, propelled uniquely by solar energy, right round the world without fuel or pollution. An unachievable goal without pushing back the current technological limits in all fields…
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