"John Norris (AngryDrifter)" (angrydrifter)
04/24/2016 at 08:45 • Filed to: None
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"John Norris (AngryDrifter)" (angrydrifter)
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This first read to me as a green internal combustion conspiracy, but I think it’s just a confused USA Today writer:
... They made it to California in three days, on schedule, despite having nearly run out of fuel, according to a tweet from the pair. ...
Tweets from Solar Impulse:
https://twitter.com/solarimpulse
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From the Solar Impulse Website :
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... Solar Impulse is not the first solar airplane, but it is the first to fly day and night, without any fuel, only using energy stored in its batteries. ...
It’s certainly not cheap:
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... and he says it has cost about €150m since 2003 ...
... “Projects like this, everything is expensive,” he says, while noting that his budget is only about 4% of what a Formula 1 team spends. ...