Solar Power Plane (Solar Impulse)
The plane powered by solar power, even thought we reached far ahead in space technology innovations, but when we hear the term SOLAR POWER RUN PLANE many says it’s impossible
In the year 2003 two friends namely BERTTEN PICKARD and BORESBEGH natives of Switzerland believed that they can make plane run by solar power.
By attempting 1st solar flight round the world, they want to show the world that clean technologies, renewable energies can achieve the impossible
SOLAR IMPULSE-1
They tried to focus on their goals. The result of this came in front with the name “SOLAR IMPULSE-1” which aimed to revolve around the earth only with the use of solar energy without a drop of any type of fuel.
Since 2003 they started working on it, first plane came up in the year 2009
With the involvement of 50 engineers, 180 technical experts they first built SOLAR IMPULSE-1 in the year 2010 it stayed and flight around 26 hours in the sky
SOLAR IMPULSE-2
After fixing the technical issues in it SOLAR IMPULSE-2 built
Features of it
Unlike other planes it can’t lift 100’s of passengers; only one person who sits in poilet chair cant travel in it
Its wings which are like similar width and parameters with that of booing plane but its weight is 23000 kilograms
To both sides of its wings it contains 17248 solar cells which are used to run the motors that are fixed to its wings
To take off in night times these cells also powers the lithium batteries when provides power to flight at night times
The cost of this project till now is 600 crores
In day time it can fly up to altitude of 28 thousand feet at night’s 5 thousand feet
Its weight is round 2800 kilograms (the real flight is around 1 lakh 60 thousand kilograms)
Toyota, Google, Omega are the sponsors of this project
The round the world flight of solar impulse started on march 9th 2015 departed from Abu Dhabi (UAE), the stop over’s of the flight are at
- Oman
- India
- Myanmar
- China
- And then after crossing Pacific Ocean through Hawaii
- It has to fly across U.S.A
- And through Atlantic Ocean
- Back to Abu Dhabi
The current status of the solar impulse is, it is travelling from
Nanjing China to Hawaii USA
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