Solar-powered aircraft are electric aircraft that can be an airplane, blimp, or airship and use either a battery or hydrogen to store the energy produced...
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an electrically powered airship go back to the 19th century, and to 1917 for a tethered helicopter. Electrically powered model aircraft have been flown...
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A solar vehicle or solar electric vehicle is an electric vehicle powered completely or significantly by direct solar energy. Usually, photovoltaic (PV)...
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Solar Impulse is a Swiss long-range experimental solar-powered aircraft project, and also the name of the project's two operational aircraft. The privately...
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produced by Solar-Powered Aircraft Developments under the direction of Freddie To. On 13 June 1979 it became one of the first solar-powered aircraft to fly...
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A solar-powered watch or light-powered watch is a watch that is powered entirely or partly by a solar cell. A model produced from 1978 by the Riehl Time...
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Tree Solar chimney Solar-powered waste compacting bin Solar cooker Solar dryer Solar-powered fan Solar furnace Solar inverter Solar keyboard Solar lamp...
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A human-powered aircraft (HPA) is an aircraft belonging to the class of vehicles known as human-powered transport. As its name suggests, HPAs have the...
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Development of a solar-powered car has been an engineering goal since the 1980s. The World Solar Challenge is a biannual solar-powered car race, where...
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The Solar Challenger was a solar-powered electric aircraft designed by Paul MacCready's AeroVironment. The aircraft was designed as an improvement on...
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NASA Pathfinder (redirect from Helios (solar aircraft))
Pathfinder Plus were the first two aircraft developed as part of an evolutionary series of solar- and fuel-cell-system-powered unmanned aerial vehicles. AeroVironment...
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AeroVironment Helios Prototype (redirect from Helios aircraft)
Prototype was the fourth and final aircraft developed as part of an evolutionary series of solar- and fuel-cell-system-powered unmanned aerial vehicles. AeroVironment...
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China Science and Technology Daily, Question: how far does the solar-powered aircraft fly in the end?, http://www.stdaily.com/oldweb/gb/dengxiaoping/...
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Solar air conditioning, or "solar-powered air conditioning", refers to any air conditioning (cooling) system that uses solar power. This can be done through...
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the use of a solar photovoltaic panel. Solar-powered household lighting can replace other light sources like candles or kerosene lamps. Solar lamps have...
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solar-powered pumps is more economical mainly due to the lower operation and maintenance costs and has less environmental impact than pumps powered by...
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Solar-powered calculators are hand-held electronic calculators powered by solar cells mounted on the device. They were introduced at the end of the 1970s...
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crewed aircraft to fly on solar power. It was also only the second solar-powered aircraft to fly, after the uncrewed AstroFlight Sunrise, which had first...
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Solar powered flashlights (American English) or solar powered torches (British English) are flashlights powered by solar energy stored in rechargeable...
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Space-based solar power (SBSP or SSP) is the concept of collecting solar power in outer space with solar power satellites (SPS) and distributing it to...
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New Jersey. They demonstrated their solar panel by using it to power a small toy Ferris wheel and a solar powered radio transmitter. They were initially...
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the calculator powered by a single solar cell to remote homes powered by an off-grid rooftop PV system. Commercial concentrated solar power plants were first...
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Airbus Zephyr (category Solar-powered aircraft)
the Zephyr 8/S flew for 64 days. The unmanned aerial vehicles are powered by solar cells, recharging batteries in daylight to stay aloft at night. The...
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A rooftop solar power system, or rooftop PV system, is a photovoltaic (PV) system that has its electricity-generating solar panels mounted on the rooftop...
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Department of Defense announced on 12 August. Solar Impulse 2 becomes the first solar-powered aircraft to circumnavigate the world and the first to do...
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has limitation in installing ground based solar power plants. However it is leading in rooftop solar powered plants installations by adopting fully flexible...
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ordinary AC-powered equipment. Solar power inverters have special functions adapted for use with photovoltaic arrays, including maximum power point tracking...
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airplane is equipped with solar cells but is not able to fly directly on solar power, thus is accurately described as a battery powered electric airplane that...
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photovoltaic power station, also known as a solar park, solar farm, or solar power plant, is a large-scale grid-connected photovoltaic power system (PV...
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solar-powered boats is a list of boats powered by the sun, typically solar panels providing electrical power to motors. Aditya, India's First Solar Ferry...
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