China leads world in solar water heaters, 99% in some cities
GenevaLunch News China is leaping ahead in solar and wind turbine technology, as well as in the lesser known field of solar water heaters, writes Los Angeles Times reporter David Pierson from Rhizhao...
View ArticleSolar Impulse decamps to Payerne for trials
GenevaLunch News Update 18:55 Payerne, canton Vaud, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Solar Impulse, a solar-powered aircraft which will attempt to be the first fly around the world non-stop powered only by...
View ArticleSolar Impulse gets green light for night flights
GenevaLunch News Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The Swiss federal government has approved a new flying ordinance that will allow pioneering solar plane Solar Impulse to take to the skies at night...
View ArticleSolar energy in Spain new victim of Greek crisis
GenevaLunch News Solar energy projects in Spain are being downsized and two major companies are holding off on plans to go public or sign new investment deals, as the country moves to reduce its energy...
View ArticleSolar Impulse makes it through the night (update 2)
GenevaLunch News Update 10:15 Payerne, canton Vaud, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Solar Impulse, the first airplane powered by solar energy, landed at 09:00 at Payerne airbase, north of Lausanne, after...
View ArticleSea urchin shape, cheap materials, give solar energy new boost
GenevaLunch News Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch.com) - Researchers at at the Empa laboratories in Thun, Switzerland have developed a new nanostructured surface for use in photovoltaic applications that...
View ArticleSolar Impulse, up and flying again (update)
GenevaLunch News Update 13:15 Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Solar Impulse is flying again! Bertrand Piccard’s plane took off Tuesday 21 September at 08:00 from Payerne, canton Vaud and landed...
View ArticleSolar vehicles did it: 80 day world tour back in Geneva
GenevaLunch News Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - August 2010 to February 2011, or 80 days of travel time to tour the world using only solar energy: the Zero Emissions “race” that finished in Geneva...
View ArticleSolar Impulse sails over the Med to Morocco
GenevaLunch News LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – Bertrand Piccard rose and sailed away through the air from Madrid at 05:20 Tuesday morning 5 June in Solar Impulse’s first overseas flight, powered only by the...
View ArticleSolar Impulse headed for San Francisco
GenevaLunch News GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Solar Impulse, the experimental solar plane, is en route to San Francisco, via Luxembourg, thanks to a jumbo jet that has the same wing-span but that weighs...
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