Solar Impulse is the first 100% solar-powered airplane. The project began on November 28, 2003 and the plane is going to fly around the world.
The plane will travel at an average speed of 43.5 mph and has a 262.5 foot wingspan. The pilot will be Bertrand Piccard who flew around the world non-stop in a balloon with Brian Jones in 1999. [Computer Weekly]
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Earlier this month at this year’s TED conference, Bill Gates gave an informative talk on his vision of eliminating CO2 emissions. You can watch it online now at TED.
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Earlier this month at this year’s TED conference, Bill Gates gave an informative talk on his vision of eliminating CO2 emissions. You can watch it online now at TED.
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About 1260 AD, Ibn Khallikan, a Kurdish historian living in the Abbasid Empire (modern Iraq), wrote an encyclopedia with biographies of many famous men (though no women). One of the biographies includes a story about …
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