The White House finally bet solar panels

Three weeks after the expedition "solar" environmentalist Bill McKibben is crashing the gate of the White House, Barack Obama has decided to swerve to the energy policy of the presidential mansion and has agreed to install new thermal and photovoltaic panels.
The recently announced Energy Secretary Steven Chu, who has urged Americans to follow suit and opt for renewable energy. The solar industry has launched the house through the window and the 350.org campaign, which on Sunday summoned the global day of action against climate change, has finally entered the "solar commitment" of the White House.
The panels, which will be installed next spring, mostly have a high symbolic value. In 1979, ahead of time, then-President Jimmy Carter decided to install the first thermal plate in the west wing roof to provide hot water. Two years later, completing the revenge of the "lobby" of fossil fuels, Ronald Reagan decided to withdraw unceremoniously and the White House with solar Panel.

White House with solar Panel

In the sly, President Bush pioneered the use of geothermal energy in their Texas ranch returned to install a small thermal panels to heat the pool water and other units of the presidential mansion. What Obama is now trying to achieve even energy supply to the monthly bill, to be determined and the White House with solar Panel..

It is unknown what might have brought about the sudden change in the White House, beyond the exit of the cabinet chief Rahm Emanuel. The fact is that the issue of McKibben and 350.org, which was loaded with an old panel of Jimmy Carter, had to turn around in September with the mission unfulfilled and the White House with solar Panel.

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"We could have said we had an excellent exchange of ideas and ensure that the Administration has taken seriously our request," McKibben wrote then. "But that would have been lying."
Three weeks later, and after weighing whether or not to recall at this point to Jimmy Carter, the White House announces rectified and solar conversion and the White House with solar Panel.. Is not known how he may have the final decision on Michelle Obama, who masterminded the famous garden in the presidential mansion, which the irrigation system can be activated by next spring, thanks to solar future

The aircraft 'Solar Impulse' lands at airport

The aircraft 'Solar Impulse', powered only by solar energy, has taken a step closer to his goal of going around the globe in 2013, arriving in Geneva today from the airfield of Payerne Switzerland, in its first landing at an international airport .So far, the unit had operated only in airports with no commercial traffic, especially in that of Payerne, near Geneva, where they happened most of their deeds, and where it took off this morning at 08.04 local time (04.06 gmt) in the Aircraft 'Solar Impulse'..
A total of 4 hours and 20 minutes took the plane to cover the journey of about 100 kilometers from both airports. At 1224 local time (10.24 gmt) in the Aircraft 'Solar Impulse'., the unit landed at Geneva airport runway in the middle of a huge expectation.
Fascination caused by the particular shape of the ship, with 63.4 meters between the ends of the wings, the same scale as that of a transatlantic Airbus, but weighing close to 1,600 kilos, just over half carin the Aircraft 'Solar Impulse'..

 Aircraft 'Solar Impulse' lands at airport

To take off from Payerne, the plane had enough speed to reach a bicycle, 35 to 40 kilometers per hour in the Aircraft 'Solar Impulse'., with the 'Solar Impulse' land left to prepare to deal with another stage in his journey to his goal of turning the planet.His first big success dates back to April 7, when he completed his first long-duration flight, specifically for an hour and a half, and only three months later able to fly for 26 hours straight in the Aircraft 'Solar Impulse'.
The next target of 12,000 solar cells that make up the plane will again Payerne, in a flight that will depart within hours.Tomorrow, Wednesday, the 'Solar Impulse' made another flight to a second international airport, the Zurich, which takes you across this country almost from end to end in just over a day in the Aircraft 'Solar Impulse'..

The first solar-powered boat

The spacecraft reached a speed of 6 knots and carry up to 170 pounds. It was designed and built by an inventor of the town of San Lorenzo Santa Fe, and is the first boat of its kind in the country that runs along the Paraná River without polluting the environment.
The new boat or catamaran multihull layout that is used for recreational boating and various water bodies is driven by an electric motor powered by photovoltaic modules that are responsible for transforming the sun's light energy into electrical energy, "he told Telam its inventor Lucas Hazzi.
The eco catamaran, named "Sun" (sun in English), measures 5.07 meters in length by 1.9 meters wide, and has a range of 24 hours, according to battery capacity.
Its structure is made of plastic reinforced fiberglass, developing a final speed of 6 knots (about 10 miles per hour), and can carry up to 170 pounds. Hazzi Lucas, who is a musician, soloist, teacher and scholar of solar energy, said it took just over three years to build the boat.

The first solar-powered boat

"Seven years ago I have been researching clean renewable energy and so I developed this boat powered by an electric motor powered by 10 solar modules, which generate energy and store it in an electrochemical battery," he said.

The engine then transforms electrical energy into mechanical spinning the propeller to produce the thrust required for the movement of the ship.
The catamaran has two hulls hydrodynamic symmetrical high-performance, cross-linked by two aluminum tubes attached to the helmet by clamps, and a central platform or basket that is used to take the helm, and the boat with solar panel is important, for the occupant or items of need on board. Hazzi said his idea of building the vessel is associated with the particular geography of the region. "I wanted to invent something in order to navigate through the different bodies of water in the area without causing any environmental impact."
"So I dedicated myself to investigate the potential energy of the sun, on time to the study of photovoltaics and its application in various areas," he told the inventor, who in line with environmental protection and study of other energy alternatives, sailed from 1989 to date only on sailing boats.

Ecologic Boat with solar panel 

The inventor Santa Fe, a member of the NGO Civil Entrepreneurs Association of San Lorenzo, said his idea is to continue the study, development and construction of other renewable energy projects, such as a hydraulic generator (extracts energy from the river), and electric motorbike which is currently in the stage of completion. Also anticipated that soon begin to develop "a draft boat hybrid (wind / solar) of larger tourist purposes, in order to generate future jobs." In this context, Hazzi stated that "as an environmentalist, I have a social responsibility to raise awareness and guide humanity towards the care, preservation and respect for the environment, essential to our life and that of future generations." That commitment was completed during a course of strengthening Social Responsibility (CSR), through which, Hazzi said "one realizes the magnitude of the environmental impact that we are producing, irreversible and increasingly catastrophic results. The future will be impossible to live on a planet in such weather, "he said. for this reason is important the boat with solar panel.
On July 20 last, the catamaran "Sun" was presented at the 1st Entrepreneurs Bicentennial exhibition 2010, held in San Lorenzo. The "Sun" as well and was successfully tested in the waters of the Parana River, where he held out waves of almost five feet tall. The ship also has a notable feature for the solar panel boat : "Never is sinking, and that having a helmet alongside the other stays afloat," said its inventor. Hazzi's invention has already been declared "Municipal Interest" in San Lorenzo, and soon the government of Santa Fe, also declared the "Provincial Interest."