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The worlds biggest solar photovoltaic cell manufacturers
2016-04-25 01:00:00| Power Technology
The solar photovoltaic industry is growing in leaps and bounds as constant technological improvements work to position solar power as a genuine contender to traditional power sources. Power-technology.com lists the worlds biggest solar photovoltaic
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Solar plane makes 62-hour non-stop flight without refueling
2016-04-24 19:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BS Comment: The flight team, which had prepared the plane in Hawaii, flew ahead to the landing stage in Silicon Valley to prepare the mobile hangar to shelter the plane. A solar-powered airplane on a journey around the world was preparing to land in California on Saturday night to complete a risky, three-day flight across the Pacific Ocean. Swiss pilots Bertrand Piccard, an explorer, and Andre Borschberg, an engineer, have taken turns handling the plane ever since it embarked upon a journey around the...
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Solar Impulse 2 lands in California after Pacific leg
2016-04-24 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CNN: An experimental plane flying around the world without a single drop of fuel landed in California after a two-and-a-half day flight across the Pacific. Piloted by Swiss explorer and psychiatrist Bertrand Piccard, Solar Impulse 2 touched down in Mountain View just before midnight (3 a.m. ET). "It's a new era. It's not science fiction. It's today," Piccard told CNN from California after his successful voyage. "It exists and clean technologies can do the impossible." Images of the elegant solar aircraft,...
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Solar Plane Lands in U.S. on Record Voyage
2016-04-24 15:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: The team that's attempting to make the first solar-powered flight around the world completed another milestone Sunday, when its craft landed at Moffett Airfield in California's San Francisco Bay area. Having taken off from Hawaii, this was the ninth leg of the trip and represented the team's first return to the air since last July, after weather and repairs to its plane led to a delay in the project. At the helm of the Solar Impulse 2 on this leg was Swiss adventurer Bertrand Piccard. The solo...
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VIDEO: Kenya's affordable solar power projects
2016-04-22 13:42:35| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Entrepreneurs in Kenya are harnessing solar energy to provide ordinary Kenyans with power for their homes.
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