A new solar breakthrough may overcome a long-standing efficiency barrier. Researchers used a “spin-flip” metal complex to capture and multiply energy from sunlight through singlet fission. The result ...

The sunlight-powered journey around the world ended in the dark as pilot Bertrand Piccard landed the Solar Impulse 2 aircraft at 4:05 a.m. local time on July 26 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- The Solar Impulse 2 took off from Moffett Field this morning to continue its historic journey around the world. It's headed next to Phoenix, Arizona. RELATED: Solar Impulse 2 ...

Industry Insight from Ethical Corporation Magazine, a part of Thomson Reuters. Governments facing elections this year have been citing cost as reason to avoid climate action But campaigners like ...

Two filmmakers spent more than a year chronicling the Solar Impulse 2 as it flew around the world with no fuel.Their Nova film takes us inside the cockpit. This Solar-Powered Plane Can Now Fly Around ...

Lightweight and energy-efficient technologies that enable the solar-powered Solar Impulse 2 aircraft to fly around the world, are commercially available today and already finding new uses in a wide ...

The second version of the 100% solar-powered airplane, Solar Impulse, has been completed. It debuted April 9 in Payerne, Switzerland. The new airplane will be the one used in next year's attempted ...

On its journey around the world, Solar Impulse 2 (Si2) - after a flight of three days and three nights (71 hours and 8 minutes) without fuel - has completed its crossing of the Atlantic Ocean to land ...

MolecularGRIP TM, a solvent-free surface functionalization technology reducing the need for dangerous chemicals developed by Molecular Plasma Group, was attributed the “Solar Impulse Efficient ...

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