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8 Incredible Solar Airplanes - Solar Impulse
8 Incredible Solar Airplanes - Solar Impulse
On June 26, worlds first practical solar airplane Solar Impulse is unveiled. The airplane is planned to have 36 hours of non-stop flight. Its a revolutionary airplane. The HB-SIA is the first prototype of the Solar Impulse project. Its mission is to demonstrate the feasibility of a complete day-night-day cycle propelled solely by solar energy. After fine-tuning on the ground, the aircraft should make its first test flights between now and the end of 2009, first of all at Dendorf airport (canton of Zurich) and then from Payerne air base (canton of Vaud). A first complete night flight is programmed for 2010 and will take place over Switzerland.
8 Incredible Solar Airplanes - Solar Impulse
8 Incredible Solar Airplanes - Solar Impulse
We have summed up 8 incredible solar airplanes (pro types, concept) in this post. These airplanes someday are going to revolutionize aviation industry.
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8 Incredible Solar Airplanes - Helios
8 Incredible Solar Airplanes - Helios
8 Incredible Solar Airplanes - Helios
8 Incredible Solar Airplanes - Helios
The Helios is a solar airplane by NASA, used for scientific research. Helios is a solar UAV with top speed of 27 mph and wingspan of 247 feet. Its wingspan is wider then Jumbo 747 jet. It has 62,000 solar cells and 14 brushless direct-current electric motors.
Prior to its loss in an in-flight mishap in June 2003, the Helios Prototype set a world altitude record for propeller-driven aircraft of almost 97,000 feet.
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8 Incredible Solar Airplanes - Centurion
8 Incredible Solar Airplanes - Centurion
8 Incredible Solar Airplanes - Centurion
8 Incredible Solar Airplanes - Centurion
The Centurion is a lightweight, solar-powered, remotely piloted flying wing aircraft that is demonstrating the technology of applying solar power for long-duration, high-altitude flight. It is considered to be a prototype technology demonstrator for a future fleet of solar-powered aircraft that could stay airborne for weeks or months on scientific sampling and imaging missions or while serving as telecommunications relay platforms. Although it shares many of the design concepts of the Pathfinder, the Centurion has a wingspan of 206 feet, more than twice the 98-foot span of the original Pathfinder and 70-percent longer than the Pathfinder-Plus 121-foot span. At the same time, Centurion maintains the 8-foot chord (front to rear distance) of the Pathfinder wing, giving the wing an aspect ratio (length-to-chord) of 26 to 1.
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8 Incredible Solar Airplanes - Zephyr
8 Incredible Solar Airplanes - Zephyr
Zephyr, along with solar power, uses low drag aerodynamics to fly for months at an altitude of 132,000 feet. Its yet another high altitude communication platform with a 12-meter solar cells equipped wingspan churning out 1 kW of power to five motors that drag it to 70 metres per second (155 mph).
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8 Incredible Solar Airplanes - Pathfinder Plus
8 Incredible Solar Airplanes - Pathfinder Plus
8 Incredible Solar Airplanes - Pathfinder Plus
8 Incredible Solar Airplanes - Pathfinder Plus
The Pathfinder is a lightweight, solar-powered, remotely piloted flying wing aircraft that is demonstrating the technology of applying solar power for long-duration, high-altitude flight. It is literally the pathfinder for a future fleet of solar-powered aircraft that could stay airborne for weeks or months on scientific sampling and imaging missions.
Solar arrays covering most of the upper wing surface provide power for the aircrafts electric motors, avionics, communications and other electronic systems. Pathfinder also has a backup battery system that can provide power for between two and five hours to allow limited-duration flight after dark.
Pathfinder flies at an airspeed of only 15 to 25 mph. Although pitch control is maintained by the use of tiny elevons on the trailing edge of the wing, turns and yaw control are accomplished by slowing down or speeding up the motors on the outboard sections of the wing.
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8 Incredible Solar Airplanes - The Challenger
8 Incredible Solar Airplanes - The Challenger
8 Incredible Solar Airplanes - The Challenger
8 Incredible Solar Airplanes - The Challenger
Solar Challenger is an improved version of “Gossamer Penguin”, designed to fly from Paris to England. The aircraft can reach an altitude of 12,000 feet equipped with 16,128 photovoltaic cells giving a tremendous output power of 2,600 watts. Its success gave way to High Altitude Solar (HALSOL) drone project.
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8 Incredible Solar Airplanes - Sky Sailor
8 Incredible Solar Airplanes - Sky Sailor
8 Incredible Solar Airplanes - Sky Sailor
8 Incredible Solar Airplanes - Sky Sailor
The goal of this project is to design and build a solar powered micro airplane for autonomous exploration. This system, named Sky-Sailor, is fully autonomous in navigation and power generation. Equipped with solar cells covering its wing, it retrieves energy from the sun in order to supply power to the propulsion system and the control electronics, and charge the battery with the surplus of energy. During the night, the only energy available comes from the battery, which discharges slowly until the next morning when a new cycle starts.
This project started in 2004 under a contract with European Space Agency to study the feasibility of a Martian Solair Airplane. The first prototype weighs 2.6 kg for a wingspan of 3.2 meters. The 216 silicone solar cells are able to deliver up to 90 W at noon during summer whereas the power consumption of the airplane is 16 W at level flight.
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8 Incredible Solar Airplanes - Sun Seeker
8 Incredible Solar Airplanes - Sun Seeker
8 Incredible Solar Airplanes - Sun Seeker
8 Incredible Solar Airplanes - Sun Seeker
Eric gave shape to Sunseeker after years of hard work, changes and innovations on wings of Larry Mauros SOLAR RISER, Paul MacCreadys SOLAR CHALLENGER, and Gunther Rochelts MUSCULAIR II. The project kicked off in 1986 and was given the final shape in 1989-90 with help of Sanyo and other corporations.
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Posted in Events by Kate Archdeacon on November 30th, 2010
12 December , 2010
10:30 amto4:00 pm

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The ATA‘s Electric Vehicle Interest Group is holding their inaugural rally, The Future of Transport, on Sunday December 12, in conjunction with the Formula SAE competitions where both Swinburne University and the RMIT University will be competing with their electric racing cars.  Everyone is welcome.
What is Formula SAE all about?
The Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) is an international organisation that encourages Universities and Colleges to build a racing car each year to a specific formula – Formula SAE. The event is now into its 10th year with the first being held in 2000. This year there will be 27 teams from Australia, New Zealand, America, India, Japan and South Korea attending.. Two teams have entered electric cars (Swinburne University & the RMIT University) and 3 teams will be using E85 (ethanol blend). The cars are judged on a number of criteria including endurance and fuel efficiency – not just speed!
The rally will include electric vehicles (EVs) on display, food stalls and vehicle charging stations, so take your own EV along if you have one (let the organisers know ahead of time if you need access to a charging point, please).
Displays will include:
* A variety of electric bikes, mopeds and several high powered registerable electric motor bikes (including one of 8kW)
* Numerous Retro-fit vehicles where you can talk to the owners
* The Aurora solar race car
* Several Blade electric cars
* An electric quad bike
* An electric go cart
* Information on a home grown electric hill climb car
* An electric 4 wheel drive Kawasaki Mule
* Several EV charging stations ( petrol stations of the future )
* A trailerable biodiesel generator
* A demonstration PV charging station
* Crown Coaches electric hybrid bus
* An ATA stand with goods for sale
Bring your EV to show it off.  Invitations are open to anyone who has an electric vehicle (car, bike, truck etc) to come along and be a part of the experience.
How to Get There
1. Electric car or electric bike
2. Electric hybrid bus (see below)
3. Electric train – $3.10 Sunday Saver all day full fare ticket – when you get to the Hoppers Crossing station call us on 0433 187 702 to be picked up by the electric hybrid bus or another electric vehicle)
4. OR – heaven forbid but if you really want to stay in the last century – use a fossil fuelled vehicle
Sunday 12 December 2010, 10:30am to 4pm
Victoria University (Werribee East campus), Hoppers Lane, Werribee (Melways 206 J6)
More details on the website, including maps, contact details and an opportunity to make the entire trip in an electric coach.

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Auto Pilot: Sing it – I’m driving on sunshine!

Toronto firm Baka Communications’ huge grid of solar panels above their new-age filling station is one of the biggest in North America.
It’s a strategy that is gaining more and more traction these days, due to clean energy issues and the subsequent and rising popularity of the modern electrical-driven automobile.
A big case in point is the structure that suddenly appeared last week on the premises of Baka Communications. The Toronto-firm is billing it as the largest solar charging station in Canada that is not run by a government or utility-company entity. It’s also among the largest in North America.
“We also have the largest private fleet of Chevrolet Volts in Canada,” says Baka’s president, John Marion. At the station’s ribbon-cutting ceremony on Oct. 23, eight of the Volts were simultaneously charged, showing off the eight available charging stations, positioned under the carport’s massive 20-kilowatt solar-panel roof.
Marion initiated the project after installing some solar panels at his house. It got him thinking about what he could do in the same green vein at the office.
“Next year, we’re scheduled to do our rooftop project, an 80-kilowatt system,” adds Marion. “When you combine them, they’ll be able to provide 50 per cent of our total electrical needs at this location, including the full charging of all nine cars for 20-kilowatt-per-year driving.”
The electric fleet and the two big solar panels will set the company back about $1 million dollars. Marion obviously feels the investment is justified.
“At the end of the day, I want to promote green …  When we’re bidding for work, clients want to know how green you are. We do a lot of green things, like recycling and conservation.  Those are the norms. But nobody can come close to what we’re doing. At the same time, it’s got to be in you. It’s in me.”
It’s in Marion so much he wants to make Baka an “evangelist for the environmental movement.” In this regard, Baka is blessed by its location adjacent to the much-travelled 427 Highway — about 275,000 vehicles a day will pass by the firm’s electric carport.
“When you combine them, they’ll be able to provide 50 per cent of our total electrical needs at this location, including the full charging of all nine cars for 20-kilowatt-per-year driving.”
The Sass in question is Sass Peress of Renewz Sustainable Solutions, which built and created Baka’s system. Peress says the station is the first in North America to be based on a combination of Italian structural technology and North American electrical technology.
The company will be introducing a home version in 2013. Also unique will be the ability to reserve a charging station via a mobile device, but only when Baka is ready to give public access to these charging stations.
How will Baka charge public users for charging? Marion said they wouldn’t have to pay. Why no payment I can’t help but ask…
“Because it’s free,” says Marion, pointing to the sky.

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Saturday, October 27, 2012

Poppa Neutrino, Trans-Atlantic Adventurer, Dies at 77


David Pearlman, an itinerant philosopher, adventurer and environmentalist widely known as Poppa Neutrino, who founded his own church, crossed the Atlantic on a raft made from scrap and invented a theoretically unstoppable football strategy, died on Sunday in New Orleans. He was 77.
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David Pearlman, with guitar, also known as Poppa Neutrino, in 1991 with family members.
He had no fixed abode but had spent the last two years in Burlington, Vt., building and testing a new raft on Lake Champlain that he planned to sail around the globe.
The cause of death was congestive heart failure, his daughter Jessica Terrell said.
Mr. Pearlman, whose improbable life was chronicled by the New Yorker writer Alec Wilkinson in “The Happiest Man in the World” (Random House, 2007), became Poppa Neutrino when he was 50.
He had just recovered from a near-mortal illness brought on by a dog bite in Mexico and, considering himself reborn, decided to choose a new name. Neutrino, a nearly undetectable particle with a capacity for constant movement, came immediately to mind.
A lifelong wanderer, he developed a philosophy that emphasized freedom, joy, creativity and antimaterialism, a creed expressed in the rafts he built from discarded materials. The rafts, he wrote on his Floating Neutrinos Web site, “were merely foils for our inner work: an ongoing experiment in human psychology, searching for answers to what makes us function and malfunction, and how to increase our own and others’ abilities to create meaningful and fulfilling lives.”
William David Pearlman was born on Oct. 15, 1933, in Fresno, Calif., and spent his turbulent childhood in San Francisco. His father, Louis Pearlman, shipped out with the Navy before he was born, and David took his stepfather’s last name, Maloney. He later discovered who his real father was and changed his last name to Pearlman.
His mother was a heavy gambler, and the family lived from week to week in cheap hotels, while David attended, fitfully, anywhere from 40 to 50 schools, by his reckoning.
Two months after lying his way into the Army at 15, he admitted that he was under age and tried to secure a discharge, a plan that was foiled when his mother insisted to his commanding officer that he was really 18. After the Korean War began, she relented.
Freed from the military, he hitchhiked along Route 66, studied briefly at a Baptist seminary in Texas and became a preacher, spent time with the Beats in San Francisco, founded the First Church of Fulfillment while living in New York, sold life insurance in New Mexico, reported from Vietnam for a small San Francisco newspaper and organized a group of itinerant sign painters he called the Salvation Navy.
In the 1980s he and his fourth wife, Betsy Terrell, formed the Flying Neutrinos, a jazz and rhythm-and-blues band drawn from family members and their many fellow travelers. It is now led by his daughter Ingrid Lucia Marshall, who uses the stage name Ingrid Lucia, and Todd Londagin, a musician he raised as his son.
In addition to his wife; his daughters, Jessica, of Long Beach, Calif., and Ingrid, of New Orleans; and his son Todd, of Peekskill, N.Y., he is survived by another son, Cahill Maloney of San Francisco; a stepdaughter, Marisa Freeman of Damariscotta, Me.; an adopted daughter, Esther Armstrong of Eastham, Mass.; and five grandchildren.
In 1988 Mr. Pearlman converted an abandoned barge into a paddle-wheel houseboat, Town Hall, that tied up at Pier 25 on the Hudson River off TriBeCa for several years.
It was then that he began scavenging the material for Son of Town Hall, a 40-foot raft made of discarded timber, foam bricks and plastic bottles lashed together, basketlike, with 3,000 feet of rope abandoned by Con Edison.
“Where did I get this notion?” he said to Mr. Wilkinson. “I have no idea. From the cornucopia of my mind. Somebody put it in there a long time ago, and it came out in this way.”
In this, it resembled the Neutrino Clock Offense, a system of secret hand signals, based on the face of a clock, designed to let passer and receiver communicate while a play is in progress. Despite his best efforts, Mr. Pearlman was unable to persuade any college football teams to adopt it.
In June 1998 Mr. Pearlman set sail from Newfoundland, aiming for France, with his wife, two crew members, three dogs and a piano. After 60 days, the raft reached Ireland, having survived a Force 9 gale that gave him pause.
“I’ve lived through levels of fear I never thought I had,” he told The Evening Standard of London. “The waves were so big and so steep, spitting foam across our raft, that I found the coward in myself.”
Nevertheless, he formed plans to circumnavigate the globe on a new raft, the Sea Owl. He abandoned the effort in November when a storm on Lake Champlain drove the raft onto a rocky cliff, where rescue workers hoisted him, his two inexperienced crew members and two dogs to safety.
“The vessel was everything I wanted it to be,” he told The Burlington Free Press. “I told the Coast Guard people it was unsinkable. They said, ‘Never say that.’ They were right. Anything will break up if it’s been smashing into a wall for two and a half hours.”

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Friday, October 26, 2012

Stanley Park, British Columbia

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Stanley Park

is a 404.9 hectare (1,001 acre) urban park bordering downtown Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It was opened in 1888 by David Oppenheimer in the name of Lord Stanley of Preston, the Governor-General of Canada.[1]

It is more than 10% larger than New York City's Central Park and almost half the size of London's Richmond Park.[2] The park attracts an estimated eight million visitors every year,[3] including locals and tourists, who come for its recreational facilities and its natural attributes. A paved 8.8 kilometres (5.5 mi) seawall path circles the park, which is used by 2.5 million pedestrians, cyclists, and inline skaters every year.[4] Much of the park remains forested with an estimated half million trees, some of which stand as tall as 76 metres (249 ft) and are up to hundreds of years old.[5][6] There are approximately 200 kilometres (120 mi) of trails and roads in the park, which are patrolled by the Vancouver Police Department's equine mounted squad.[7] The Project for Public Spaces has ranked Stanley Park as the sixteenth best park in the world and sixth best in North America.[8

 

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Queensborough, British Columbia

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Queensborough is a neighbourhood in the city of New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada. It is on the eastern tip of Lulu Island on the Fraser River.[1]

History
Queensborough was the name originally chosen for the colonial capital by Royal Engineers Commander Colonel Richard Clement Moody. Queen Victoria designated New Westminster instead of Queensborough as her new capital's name. In the 1860s a survey of Lulu Island by the Royal Engineers resulted in the eastern tip of the island being designated a military reserve for the defense of New Westminster. This portion of land was not incorporated into the new Township of Richmond in 1879. Instead the rapidly growing City of New Westminster annexed the area in 1889. The City received title to the entire Military Reserve from the Provincial Government and it decided to subdivide the area for sale in 1890. A bridge was constructed to reach the area from the Mainland and the lands sold at auction.
The name Queensborough for this neighbourhood of the City was formally established in 1911 when the Queensborough Post Office was opened by early community leader and Italian immigrant Anthony Sprice. In the Chinook Jargon, it is said that an adaption of the name Queensborough - "Koonspa" - is the usual name for New Westminster as a whole.[citation needed] With its many lumber mills and canneries the area became a focus of new immigrants looking for employment and cheap lots to establish family homes. These early groups built their own cultural halls, churches and had many different mutual aid societies. However, the entire community united at time under the Queensborough Ratepayers Association founded in 1911. This group continues to operate and is often cited as the oldest ratepayers association in British Columbia. Early immigrants included the Japanese, Chinese, East Indians or Sikhs, Italians, Greeks, Slovakians, Ukrainians and Finnish peoples. The community grew slowly but developed a unique sense of place because of its unique cultural composition.
Queensborough is today a growing suburban district with a rapidly redeveloped waterfront area known as Port Royal. It also served as the inspiration for the song Sparks which is written and performed by the English band Coldplay[citation needed]. The song is featured on the band's debut album Parachutes. Queensborough connected to the rest of New Westminster by the Queensborough Bridge and Annacis Island in Delta by the Derwent Way Bridge. It is served by Highway 91A.

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Monday, October 22, 2012

1974 Sank Star


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Backwards Rider Tours - yatch capsized and needs repair!
1974 Sank Star

Bedroom size (Fit twin mattress (9’x5’)
25‘ long
Main room 8’x14’
Top deck/ back deck
Bathroom sink needs water system to be installed
(4) windows, front are good and side ones are crack
12 volt battery system
120 volt inside
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