GenevaLunch » solar cells http://genevalunch.com Community Newspaper Online Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:57:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Copyright © GenevaLunch 2010 editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) http://genevalunch.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg GenevaLunch http://genevalunch.com 144 144 Community Newspaper Online GenevaLunch GenevaLunch editor@genevalunch.com no no Solar Impulse in the skies, collecting energy for first night flight http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/07/07/solar-impulse-in-the-skies-collecting-energy-for-first-night-flight/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/07/07/solar-impulse-in-the-skies-collecting-energy-for-first-night-flight/#comments Wed, 07 Jul 2010 06:38:17 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=44548 GenevaLunch.com Lausanne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch.com) - SolarImpulse took off on its maiden night flight early Wednesday 7 July north of Lausanne and, if all goes as expected, the plane will continue flying until early Thursday. Success on this first night flight would make it the longest and highest flight ever by a solar plane. During the day [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/04/07/solar-impulse-takes-to-the-air/feed/ 4 Solar plane will take to the air Wednesday http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/04/06/solar-plane-will-take-to-the-air-wednesday/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/04/06/solar-plane-will-take-to-the-air-wednesday/#comments Tue, 06 Apr 2010 10:23:43 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=39828 GenevaLunch.com Lausanne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Solar Impulse, the wide-winged Swiss plane that is the world’s first designed to fly night and day without fuel or polluting emissions, will take to the air for the first time tomorrow, Wednesday 7 April. The aircraft has a wingspan comparable to that of an Airbus A340 (63.4 m) and a [...]

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