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Solar-powered plane soars above Switzerland
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http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6362S420100407
(Reuters) - A solar-powered airplane designed to fly day and night without fuel or emissions successfully made its first test flight above the Swiss countryside on Wednesday. The Solar Impulse, which has 12,000 solar cells built into its wings, is a prototype for an aircraft intended to fly around the world without fuel in 2012. It glided for 87 minutes above western Switzerland at an altitude of 1,200 meters (3,937 feet) with German test pilot Markus Scherdel at the controls.
"Everything went as it should," Scherdel told Reuters Television at Payerne military base after landing. It took six years to build the carbon fiber aircraft, which has the wingspan of an Airbus A340 and weighs as much as a mid-size car (1,600 kg).
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 10 April 2010 )
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Written by Washington Post
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In Close Vote, House Passes Climate Bill
Measure Aims to Change Energy Use
By Steven Mufson, David A, Fahrenthold and Paul Kane
Washington Post Staff Writers
Saturday, June 27, 2009
The House narrowly passed an ambitious climate bill yesterday that
would establish national limits on greenhouse gases, create a complex
trading system for emission permits and provide incentives to alter how
individuals and corporations use energy.
The bill passed 219 to 212 after a furious lobbying push by the White House and party leaders won
over farm-state Democrats who had complained that it was too costly,
and liberals who wondered if it was too watered down to work. Even
after that effort, 44 Democrats voted against the legislation.
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 15 July 2009 )
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Written by DOE
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October 29, 2008
DOE Extends Application Deadline for Renewable Energy Loan Guarantee Solicitation
WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
announced today that it is extending the due date for submission of
applications for loan guarantees under Title XVII of the Energy Policy
Act of 2005 for the June 30, 2008 solicitation (DE-FOA-0000005) for
energy efficiency, renewable energy and advanced transmission and
distribution technologies (the “Renewables Solicitation”).
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Written by DOE
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August 29, 2008
DOE Announces Up to $7 Million for Technology Commercialization Acceleration
WASHINGTON
– DOE Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and
Renewable Energy John Mizroch today announced the availability of up to
$7 million to accelerate the movement of clean energy technologies from
DOE’s world-class national laboratories to the marketplace. The funding
will help post-research technologies move toward commercial viability
by providing pre-venture capital funding for activities such as
prototype development, demonstration projects and market research.
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 02 September 2008 )
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Written by news.yahoo.com
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Intel cuts electric cords with wireless power system
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) –
Intel on Thursday showed off a wireless electric power system that analysts say could revolutionize modern life by freeing devices from transformers and wall outlets. Intel chief technology officer Justin Rattner demonstrated a Wireless Energy Resonant Link as he spoke at the California firm's annual developers forum in San Francisco.
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 24 August 2008 )
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