Ecotravel News was away celebrating the holiday season but is now back and ready with new travel news for the (almost) new year.USA Today reports on the solar-powered plane that engineers hope will be a prototype to be used for future commercial trips.
While the world's attention was tuned to the recent global climate conference in Copenhagen, in an old airplane hangar on a small Swiss airfield, a group of visionaries, dreamers and engineers was busily assembling a vehicle that is their solution to global climate change and the future of commercial aviation. This airplane uses no fossil or bio-fuels. It is a solar-powered airplane, collecting the sun's rays on 12,000 solar cells spread across its wings to charge the special lithium-polymer batteries that will continue to power the airplane from sunset till the next sunrise.Read the full story: Can a solar-powered airplane be the future of aviation?
Photo by David Grossman
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