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Solar Impulse grounded until 2016 due to battery damage; team studying better thermal management

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Solar Impulse, the solar-powered electric aircraft attempting to fly around the world, will be grounded in Hawaii until early spring 2016 due to damage to the batteries which overheated in the record-breaking oceanic flight from Nagoya to Hawaii.

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Solar Impulse 2 used Kokam Ultra High Energy NMC batteries in round-the-world solar flight

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The Solar Impulse 2 —the solar airplane that recently completed a round-the-world flight— used batteries from Kokam, based on that company’s advanced Ultra High Energy Lithium Nickel Manganese Cobalt (NMC) Oxide (Ultra High Energy NMC) technology. The Solar Impulse uses four 38.5 The Solar Impulse uses four 38.5

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Tesla Model S Range, CA Electric-Car Rebate Changes, Solar Impulse In Hawaii: Today's Car News

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Today, we look at the possibility of a future Tesla Model S electric car surpassing the 2016 Toyota Mirai hydrogen fuel-cell car's 312-mile range, changes to California's electric-car rebate program, and the Solar Impulse 2 airplane's successful crossing of the Pacific Ocean. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Revealed: Jupiter’s Secret Power Source

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The solar system’s biggest planet has a big problem You are orbiting Jupiter, 779 million km from the sun, where physics and logic say it ought to be very, very cold. If solar heating were the only factor at play, the planet's upper atmosphere would average 70 degrees below zero Celsius. Where does this lead?

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ULA Atlas V rocket launches NOAA, NASA weather satellite

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GOES-T is a powerful weather satellite that will be responsible for monitoring weather patterns and improving forecasts across the Western United States and North America, including Alaska and Hawaii. The two previous missions, GOES-16 (GOES-R) and GOES-17 (GOES-S), also launched aboard Atlas V rockets in 2016 and 2018. Richard Angle).

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SAE World Congress panel highlights progress on H2 infrastructure and fuel cell vehicle commercialization

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These three geographical areas will each have approximately 50 stations by 2016 and plans to expand this cumulatively to a multiple hundreds by 2020 and thousands in the decade thereafter. Germany will have ~14-16 H 2 stations this year, with 50 by the end of 2016. Japan will have 45 H 2 stations this year, with ~100 in 2016.

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Renewable Energy Generation: Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy, a lesson exported from Detroit

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mpg by 2016. cents/ kWh in Hawaii to 5.61 Even ruling Hawaii out as an outlier, the cost of electricity in Connecticut was 17.79 Two are geographically constrained (hydro and geothermal), placing wind and solar as the front running mass renewable energy choices. cents/kWh, with a range from 29.20

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