#1 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 03/01/2010 #2

The world’s largest solar powered catamaran is unveiled in a shipyard in Kiel, Germany. The vessel is 192 feet long, 50 feet wide and 241/2 feet high.

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#2 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 07/05/2010 #2

The government is handing out nearly $2 billion for new solar plants that Obummer lies says will create thousands of jobs and increase the use of renewable energy sources. Obummer announced the initiative in his weekly radio and online address Saturday, saying the money is part of his plan to bring new industries to the U.S. “We’re going to keep competing aggressively to make sure the jobs and industries of the future are taking root right here in America,” Obummer said. The two companies that will receive the money from the president’s $862 billion economic stimulus are Abengoa Solar, which will build one of the world’s largest solar plants in Arizona, creating 1,600 construction jobs; and Abound Solar Manufacturing, which is building plants in Colorado and Indiana. The Obummer administration lies says those projects will create more than 2,000 construction jobs and 1,500 permanent jobs.

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#3 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 07/10/2010 #1

The experimental aircraft Solar Impulse takes off with pilot Andre Borschberg on board from Payerne’s Swiss airbase on Wednesday on the first attempt to fly around the clock fueled by nothing but the energy of the sun. A Swiss team planning to eventually circle the globe in a solar powered plane has started a 24-hour test flight that aims to keep the aircraft operating through the night on stored energy collected from the sun.

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#4 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 09/22/2010 #2

Pilot Andre Borschberg flies the experimental solar-powered aircraft, Solar Impulse, above Montreux, Switzerland, during a test flight from Payerne to Geneva. The Solar Impulse team, which successfully conducted a round-the-clock flight powered only by the sun, plans several more test flights across Switzerland to prepare for long-haul journeys.

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#5 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 12/25/2011 #5

A picture taken by the GeoEye 1 satellte, on November 4th 2010, shows the Gemasolar power generating array in Seville, Spain. At the center of the array is a forty-story-high concrete tower, ringed by 2,650 mirrors. The mirrors focus sunlight on the tower, which stores the heat and converts it to energy.

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#6 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 01/08/2012 #4

Solar-powered aircraft Solar Impulse, the zero fuel airplane, project aims to circumnavigate the world with the aircraft, with a 63.4-meter-wingspan, powered only by solar energy.

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#7 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 05/05/2012 #4

The Turanor Planetsolar ship arrives in the port of Monaco after completing the first around the world trip using solar energy.

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#8 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 05/16/2012 #4

The MS Turanor PlanetSolar, the world’s largest solar boat ever built, arrives in the harbour of Monaco after it has achieved the first around the world journey using solar energy in 585 days, Friday, May 4th 2012. The five sailors are: Raphael Domjan of Switzerland, founder and expedition leader, Patrick Marchesseau of France, Erwann le Rouzic of France, Jens Langwasser of Germany and Christian Oechsenbeim of Switzerland.

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#9 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 05/04/2013 #3

Solar Impulse co-founder, pilot and CEO Andre Borschberg, left, greets pilot Bertrand Piccard at Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix, early Saturday, May 4th, 2013, after completing the first leg of its coast to coast flights across the United States. It is the first time that a solar airplane capable of flying day and night without fuel, will attempt to fly across America. Solar Impulse began its journey Friday in San Francisco in its attempt to reach New York.

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#10 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 05/24/2013 #4

Solar Impulse, piloted by André Borschberg, takes flight during the second leg of the 2013 Across America mission, at dawn from Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix. The plane’s creators, Bertrand Piccard and Borschberg, said the trip is the first attempt by a solar airplane capable of flying day and night without fuel to fly across America.

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#11 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 09/09/2013 #4

The Turanor PlanetSolar, the world’s largest solar powered boat, travels on the Seine river in Epinay sur Seine, near Paris Sunday.

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#12 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 07/30/2014 #1

The world’s largest solar powered boat, MS Turanor PlanetSolar sails through the Corinth Canal near the town of Corinth, on July 28th 2014. The boat arrived in Greece as part of a joint archaeological project focused on underwater exploration off one of Europe’s oldest human occupation sites, the Franchthi cave in the Argolid, southeast Peloponnese.

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#13 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 08/24/2014 #2

The new experimental aircraft Solar Impulse 2 flies above the airbase in Payerne, Switzerland. The main goal of the project is to circumnavigate the world powered only by solar energy.

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#14 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 09/29/2014 #5

German test pilot Markus Scherdel steers the solar powered Solar Impulse 2 aircraft during a training flight at its base in Payerne Switzerland, Saturday. The aircraft weighs 2.4 tons with a wingspan of 236 ft. and has more than 17,000 solar cells. The attempt to fly around the world in stages using only solar energy will be made from March 2015 starting from Abu Dhabi.

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#15 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 10/11/2014 #3

French inventor Roland Janin, fifty, poses in his three-wheeled electric assisted bike in Besançon, eastern France. He intends to ride almost 7,500 miles across Argentina on the special bike over the course of six months.

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#16 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 11/14/2014 #4

German test pilot Markus Scherdel lands the solar powered Solar Impulse 2 aircraft after a training flight at its base in Payerne, Switzerland. The aircraft, which was unveiled April 9th, weighs 2.4 tons with a wingspan of 236 ft. and has more than 17,000 solar cells. The attempt to fly around the world in stages using only solar energy will be made from March 2015 starting from Abu Dhabi.

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#17 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 11/15/2014 #1

Swiss pilot Bertrand Piccard prepares for a test flight of the solar-powered Solar Impulse 2 experimental aircraft in Payerne. The aircraft, weighing 2.4 tons with a wingspan of 72 meters, is fitted with more than 17,000 solar cells. An attempt to fly around the world in stages using only solar energy will be made in 2015.

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#18 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 11/18/2014 #4

The vehicle of a team from the University of Chile in Santiago competes in the first stage of a solar race in Chile’s Atacama Desert.

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#19 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 02/27/2015 #3

The Solar Impulse 2, a solar-powered plane, flies over the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi, UAE, Thursday, during preparations for next month’s round-the-world flight. Swiss pilots Bertrand Piccard and Andre Borschberg will attempt to fly around the world in a bid to prove that such a flight is possible without the use of fossil fuels. The solar-powered plane has a wingspan of 72 metres, larger than that of a Boeing 747, but weighs only 2.3 tons, about as much as a family car.

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#20 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 03/11/2015 #3

Solar Impulse 2, a solar-powered airplane, begins its historic round-the-world journey from Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

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#21 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 03/12/2015 #5

Solar Impulse 2 descends in Muscat, Oman. The solar powered plane traveled from Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, to Muscat on the first leg of its five-month flight around the world.

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#22 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 03/13/2015 #1

Solar Impulse 2, the world’s first airplane flying on solar energy, lands in Ahmedabad, India, March 10th, 2015.

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#23 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 04/01/2015 #4

Solar panels producing renewable energy run across the hills at the photovoltaic park in Les Mees, in the department of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, southern France, Tuesday. The solar farm of the Colle des Mees, the biggest in France, consists of 112,780 solar modules covering an area of 200 hectares of land and representing 100 MW of power.

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#24 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 04/01/2015 #5

A general view shows solar panels to produce renewable energy at the photovoltaic park in Les Mees, in the department of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, southern France, March 31st, 2015. The solar farm of the Colle des Mees, the biggest in France, consists of 112,780 solar modules covering an area of 200 hectares of land and representing 100 MW of power.

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#25 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 05/21/2015 #3

Solar sunflowers designed by filmmaker James Cameron are pictured at the MUSE School in Malibu, CA. The functional art pieces, which use existing photovoltaic technology, produce 75% to 90% of the school’s power.

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#26 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 06/01/2015 #2

Solar Impulse 2, the world’s largest solar powered airplane, takes off in Nanjing, China, Sunday. The plane lifted off from eastern China to continue its round the world voyage.

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#27 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 07/04/2015 #4

Solar Impulse 2, a solar powered plane plane powered by the sun’s rays and piloted by Andre Borschberg, approaches Kalaeloa Airport near Honolulu, Friday. His 120-hour voyage from Nagoya, Japan broke the record for the world’s longest nonstop solo flight, his team said.

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#28 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 09/23/2015 #2

Delegates are pictured during the launch event of a solar carport at a shopping mall in Nairobi.

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#29 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 10/18/2015 #1

The Principia Solar Car Team car from the US competes during the qualification lap for the 2015 World Solar Challenge at Hidden Valley race track in Darwin, Australia, Saturday. On Sunday, 45 Solar cars from 25 different countries will start a 3,000 km race from Darwin to Adelaide.

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#30 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 10/22/2015 #2

The Punch Powertrain Solar Team car from Belgium competes during the 4th day of the 2015 World Solar Challenge in Coober Pedy, Australia, Wednesday. Forty-five Solar cars from twenty-five different countries participate in a 3,000 km race from Darwin to Adelaide.

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#31 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 03/05/2016 #2

A tower belonging to the Abengoa solar plant is seen at the ‘Solucar’ solar park in Sanlucar la Mayor, near the Andalusian capital of Seville, southern Spain, Friday.

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#32 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 04/25/2016 #3

A solar powered airplane landed in California on Saturday, completing a risky, three day flight across the Pacific Ocean as part of its journey around the world.

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#33 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 06/14/2016 #5

Solar Impulse 2, the solar airplane, piloted by Swiss adventurer Andre Borschberg, flies over the Statue of Libery in in New York, shortly before landing at John F. Kennedy airport. Leg 14 was the shortest so far on the planes trip around the globe.

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#34 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 06/23/2016 #2

Powered by the sun, the Solar Impulse 2 aircraft flies over New York City on June 20th as Andre Borschberg embarked on the transatlantic leg of a record breaking flight around the world to promote renewable energy.

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#35 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 07/28/2016 #5

Solar Impulse 2, the solar powered plane, piloted by Swiss pioneer Bertrand Piccard, is seen before landing in Abu Dhabi to finish the first around the world flight without the use of fuel, United Arab Emirates, July 26th 2016.

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#36 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 12/08/2016 #5

The solar plant El Romero in the Atacama Desert, Chile.

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#37 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 06/18/2017 #1

Solar panels in the mountains of Baofeng County, Henan Province, China.

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#38 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 10/07/2017 #1

A stockbreeder uses solar panels to charge his phone during the trek from Van to Batman in Turkey.

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#39 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 10/09/2017 #1

The Solar Team Twente car from the Netherlands competes during the 1st day of the 2017 World Solar Challenge near Katherine, Australia.

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#40 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 01/24/2018 #3

On Monday, the Twitler administration announced that it would impose steep tariffs on imported solar panels, which could raise the cost of solar power in the years ahead, slowing adoption of the technology and costing jobs.

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#41 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 05/29/2019 #2

An aerial picture shows the self energy producing multihull Energy Observer sailing off the coast of the Swedish capital, Stockholm. The high tech catamaran, part of a project aimed at finding new solutions in favor of energy transition, is on a trip around the world during six years —— from 2017 to 2022 —— with 50 countries expected to be visited along the way.

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#42 Click this link to see Blog page --> 08/31/2019

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#43 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 08/31/2019 #5

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#44 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 11/20/2019 #3

Bourg-Saint-Pierre, Switzerland • Barges fitted with solar panels float on the Lac des Toules. The solar panel station consists of 36 barges carrying 2,240 m2 of solar cells. The station aims to deliver 800,000 kWh per year, equivalent to the annual power consumption of approximately 220 homes.

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#45 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 12/23/2021 #13

In 1986, the experimental airplane Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, completed the first non-stop, non-refueled around the world flight as it returned safely to Edwards Air Force Base in California. Rutan Voyager #RutanVoyager #Solar

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#46 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 04/10/2022 #1

Solar panels used to produce renewable energy are pictured during the launch event of a photovoltaic park near Kozani, Greece, April 6th.

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#47 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 04/12/2022 #2

A boat pulls solar panels towards a floating photovoltaic power plant on lake Silbersee (Lake Silver) in Haltern am See, Germany.

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#48 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 06/27/2022 #1

Swiss freeride snowboarder, base jumper and wingsuit pilot Geraldine Fasnacht prepares to jump out of SolarStratos, a solar powered aircraft prototype, flown by Swiss adventurer Raphael Domjan to perform the first ever wingsuit jump from a solar airplpane, above the alpine resort of Verbier, Switzerland, Saturday, June 18th, 2022.

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#49 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 07/06/2022 #15

In 2013, a solar-powered aircraft, the Solar Impulse, completed the final leg of a history-making cross-country flight, gliding to a smooth stop at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport. #SolarImpulse

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#50 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 08/13/2023 #2

Zhangjiakou, China • An aerial view of a solar farm in Hebei province.

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#51 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 10/22/2023 #3

Leuk, Switzerland • Employees of the Swiss electricity producer and supplier CKW, part of Axpo, install solar panels in a satellite dish at the Leuk Teleport and Data Centre.

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#52 Click this link to see Twitter Roundup page --> 01/02/2024 #4

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#53 Click this link to see Twitter Roundup page --> 07/13/2025 #1

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#54 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 07/27/2025 #3

A bus drives through a solar farm. The farm produces enough electricity to supply 80,000 households in Almere, Netherlands.

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