FAI celebrates today the 10th anniversary of the start of Solar Impulse’s historic round-the-world flight, the first-ever circumnavigation powered solely by solar energy. On 9 March 2015, the ...

The solar industry has come of age, developing into a technology that is rapidly replacing coal, oil, and natural gas Before the first modern solar panels were invented by Bell Laboratories in ...

Assuming a nozzle efficiency of 0.9, the exhaust velocity of this system will be 4725 km/s, or about 1.575% of the speed of light (a specific impulse of 482,140 seconds ... opening the door to faster ...

on board the now iconic Solar Impulse plane. More recently, the United Nations Goodwill Ambassador for the Environment, Special Advisor to the European Commission, and Founder and Chairman of the ...

Humanity's fascination with the unknown is a timeless impulse, rooted in curiosity and ... in industries from insulation to cushioning. Invented in 1937 by Otto Bayer and his team in Germany ...

His other inventions included flying machines, armored vehicles, concentrated solar power ... was an American entrepreneur and engineer who invented the railway air brake and pioneered the ...

In 1917, Low and his team invented the first wireless rocket ... One obvious source was solar power. This led to some interesting solar-powered drones being developed, including the AeroVironment ...

175 million euros allocated in startups of the energy and ecological transition €75 million euros committed in the BNP Paribas Solar Impulse Venture Fund, created in 2021 with the Solar Impulse ...

Agence France Presse-March 9, 2015, 2:38 pm 0 ...

A NASA spacecraft will make its second close brush with the sun. The Parker Solar Probe made its record-breaking first pass ...