Solar Plane Almost Ready for Record Flight (Environmental News Network)
In Switzerland, two pioneers are coming closer and closer to a flight around the world powered only by solar energy. It doesn’t make good business sense, physics sense, or much of any kind of sense, to try to fly an airplane on solar power. Not yet. With the state of the technology, and how relatively young the solar sector still is, such an endeavor would be considered quixotic today—let alone …