solar impulse plane Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Tue, 05 Jun 2012 17:52:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Solar Impulse Takes Off from Madrid to Complete 1,550 Miles of Solar Powered Trip https://www.greenoptimistic.com/solar-impulse-morocco-land-20120605/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/solar-impulse-morocco-land-20120605/#respond Tue, 05 Jun 2012 17:50:21 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=24832 Last week we’ve been telling you that Solar Impulse, world’s first airplane powered solely by solar power had landed in Madrid, the only stop in the trip to Morocco. The “man for the job” is Swiss adventurer Bertrand Piccard, a 54-year-old psychiatrist and balloonist, who will be taking his plane from Madrid to Rabat, Morocco. […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/solar-impulse-morocco-land-20120605/feed/ 0 24832 Solar Impulse: Viable Manned Flight Powered by The Sun https://www.greenoptimistic.com/solar-impulse-plane-20090705/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/solar-impulse-plane-20090705/#respond Sun, 05 Jul 2009 13:20:16 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=3914 Solar Impulse, the first solar powered plane has been unveiled in Switzerland. With a wingspan of a Boeing 747 but lighter than a small car, the plan could fly around the world powered entirely by the sun.

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