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Solar Impulse pilot clocks extraordinary 18 hours to Madrid

Ellen Wallace — Fri, 25 May 2012 10:34:41 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Swiss pioneering plane hosted by Morocco as construction begins on world’s largest thermo-solar power plant LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – André Borschberg flew Solar Impulse for 17h 3min 59s Thursday 24 May, to land the experimental solar plane at Madrid’s Barajas airport. He flew from the Payerne aerodrome in Switzerland over the Massif Central towards the city [...]

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Solar Impulse flying over Jura, France en route to Morocco

Ellen Wallace — Thu, 24 May 2012 08:23:04 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Solar-powered plane makes first intercontinental flight, must pass over Pyrenees LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – Solar Impulse, the elegant airplane powered only by solar cells, left Payerne shortly before 08:30 Thursday 24 May, and headed towards the Jura and into France. Pilot André Borschberg expects to land this evening, after midnight, at Madrid Barajas Airport where the [...]

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WRS temporarily down: transmitter under repairs

Ellen Wallace — Fri, 04 May 2012 06:50:51 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Down but not out GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – For those who are asking why WRS radio is not currently on the air, it is simply a temporary problem with the SSR transmitter, which is being repaired as quickly as possible. The station, which has been threatened with closure or sale by its parent, Swiss Public Broadcasting, [...]

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GenevaLunch news taking a small May Day break

Ellen Wallace — Tue, 01 May 2012 11:52:14 +0000

GenevaLunch.com TO OUR FANS: We weren’t planning to celebrate 1 May, since it is not a holiday in Vaud, as it is in some parts of Switzerland (Zurich, for example) and as it certainly is in France. But fate handed us an electrical problem in the building followed by an Internet breakdown just as the Zurich [...]

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Fans rally behind WRS radio

Ellen Wallace — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 09:47:34 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – WRS public radio faces a decision in June by its parent SSR (Swiss Public Broadcasting) to either close it or sell it, but the station’s fans don’t intend to let it die without a fight. A private group has launched a petition-signing campaign, Save WRS, to at least give voice to the [...]

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WRS radio’s future up in the air (update)

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 07:23:43 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Update 12:15 GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – WRS, World Radio Switzerland, says Wednesday morning 4 April, that SSR (Swiss public broadcasting, also known as SRG), its parent company, is considering the possibility of selling the station and privatizing it or closing it down. The station cites SSR chief executive officer Roger de Weck as saying English-language radio [...]

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Olympic Museum in Lausanne 1st Swiss museum to join Google Art Project

Ellen Wallace — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 13:44:37 +0000

GenevaLunch.com LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – The Olympic Museum in Lausanne has provided the Google Art Project with 104 artworks by 33 artists, from its collection. The museum is one of 155 worldwide to share part of their collection online and it is the first in Switzerland to do so. Art Project now includes Hans Erni’s 1983 “Basketball” [...]

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Six-legged calf ok but farmer Knutti surprised by media circus (update)

Ellen Wallace — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 17:31:53 +0000

GenevaLunch.com BERN, SWITZERLAND – Farmers Andreas and Franziska Knutti have been completely caught by surprise by the media hype from abroad over their six-legged calf Lilli. Blick ran the story, which was picked up by AP in English and other languages, and soon the family was receiving media calls from The Netherlands and Sweden, reports local [...]

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Lausanne astrophysicists succeed in measuring black holes

Ellen Wallace — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 18:25:23 +0000

GenevaLunch.com LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – It takes a black hole to: measure another black hole, it turns out. Researchers at the EPFL polytechnic in Lausanne have been using, for the past two years, what they call “supermassive black holes acting as gravitational lenses” to measure, for the first time, other black holes. Scientists at the university’s laboratory [...]

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Google Maps unveils first train rides, in Switzerland, land of trains!

Ellen Wallace — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 11:16:30 +0000

GenevaLunch.com ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – What better country than Switzerland to start showing train lines on Google Maps Street View, and what better line than the Unesco World Heritage site Albula/Bernina line on the Rhaetian Railways! The new views were unveiled Thursday at the Transport Museum in Lucerne. The rail company and Google worked together in October [...]

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