Obama says "no" to the solar panels on the White House

The expedition started from Unity, Maine, where he lay for some time the solar panels installed in the White House Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan that he decided to remove, in an act of defiance against renewable energy. On board a van powered by biodiesel, a group of ecologists led by Bill McKibben, author of "The End of Nature" and the recent "Eaarth" - attempted to carry thermal plates back to Washington to challenge President Obama to re-install them for their symbolic value
Solar Panel in the Withe House.
      But Obama has declined the offer-perhaps to avoid comparison with Carter, and environmentalists have had to turn back to the old thermal plates on their backs.  Even the offer of the California company Sungevity, which has offered to do a fresh install in the White House with the latest technology has served to discourage presidential aides, who have remembered though Obama's commitment to "encourage" renewables and the Solar Panel in the Withe House. with 80,000 million dollars.  

Solar Panel in the Withe House

  "I do not want to accept the panel was Carter who brought us and have said they will continue deliberating to decide if they are installed in the White House one day," said Bill McKibben after the frustrating event. "We have told them it would be nice if you decide soon, given the pace at which climate is deteriorating Solar Panel in the Withe House.."
      Bill McKibben recalled how Carter was ahead of the times and decided to install thermal plates in 1979 to provide hot water at the presidential mansion. His promise and hope was to hold off on the roof of the White House until 2000, but Ronald Reagan decided to disassemble just two years later.

Solar Panel in EEUU

McKibben is aware that the climate movement in the United States "will inevitably have to travel back to leap forward." For the second consecutive year, the most emblematic activist has called the United States October 10 vindicating hundreds of events around the globe and under the auspices of 350.org, the campaign for a global reduction of CO2 parts per million in the atmosphere Solar Panel in the Withe House..
"The fossil fuel industry has planted resistance to change and has been boycotting the law of the climate," McKibben complaint. "Clearly we will not see federal action over the next two years, so that the solution is back in our hands. We will use that time to build the movement that this country and the world need ... We will continue asking the White House is converted to solar power. President Obama should lead by example Solar Panel in the Withe House.. "

The European Union prohibits large primates experiments

The European Parliament (EP) has finally adopted the new EU legislation on animal experimentation, which will limit the number of experiments and they prohibit the use in large primates such as gorillas, orangutans and chimpanzees.
The plenary of the Parliament gave its approval to the agreement negotiated between their representatives and the national governments to implement new standards even though some groups, such as the Greens believe that it is not ambitious enough and the UE prohibits primates in experiment.
The new legislation will oblige national authorities to give preference to alternative methods to animal testing wherever possible and ensure that the number of animals used in testing to a minimum. Also may allow the tests involving a "least pain, suffering and anguish" for animals.

UE prohibits large primates experiments

The text approved on Wednesday September 8, bans completely the use of great apes in experiments, but eventually allow the use of other primates such as macaques, that the original proposal also sought to abolish.
According to MEPs, the ban would hurt the investigation of neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's.

Experiments with primates such, in any case, it will be possible under scientific proof that the evidence can not be made with other species. also the UE prohibits primates in experiment.To ensure compliance with the directive obliges national authorities to ensure that inspections are held each year at least one third of the laboratories which use animals.

Prohibits large primates in experiments

At least some of them must also be done by surprise also UE prohibits primates in experiment..The new directive, which stipulates a period of two years for full implementation in all Member States, includes a safeguard clause allowing governments to cancel some of its provisions in case of emergency and where there are scientifically justifiable reasons.
To qualify for this exception, the countries will have to report to Brussels to get permission from other Member Statesand the UE prohibits primates in experiment..

Solar plane would make its first flight around the world in 2013

The first flight around the world in a solar plane could be produced in 2013, said Monday the project initiator and president of Solar Impulse, Bertrand Piccard, who has been flying with this type of aircraft a day and night and now builds full a new device lighter.Piccard made the announcement during the presentation of the V World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion (WCPEC), held from Monday until Wednesday at the premises of the Fair in this city in eastern Spain.
"The plane works is completed and able to fly day and night thanks to batteries that power four electric motors that are recharged by the sun and the Solar Plane. It is possible that in a couple of years we can cross the Atlantic Ocean and that 2013 we are able to turn around the world, "he said.

Solar Plane around the World

The first solar airplane that has managed Piccard flying day and night has a wingspan of 64 meters, similar to that of an Airbus 340, a weight similar to a car, some 1,600 kilos, and is capable of flying at 9,000 meters altitude."We are now building a second aircraft, with which we intend to circumnavigate the world, with a larger cabin and lighter" he addedin the Solar Plane.But despite the lateness of the project, the Swiss psychiatrist responsible for the project Solar Impulse acknowledges that "it's crazy to think that at present this technology can be applied in commercial aviation.
However, compared Piccard first solar flight of Charles Lindbergh's feat in 1927 (first transatlantic flight.)

"Today the solar flight is performed by a single pilot in an aircraft loaded with batteries in the Solar Plane, as that was made by one person on a plane completely filled with gas," he said.
"We must keep the door open to evolution. Fortunately understands that civil aviation is a great waste of current flights, where fuel is needed to cool the whiskey for passengers, is unsustainable from an energy standpoint," he said about the Solar Plane.

Solar Airplane

Therefore advocated Piccard union "of those who believe in this" to "raise a revolution in the minds of people and they understand how renewable energies."
"Maybe solar power and hydrogen can be produced in the future we can get passengers on board," said Piccard, who applauded the decision of the IATA (International Air Transport Association) to work on your project.
When this project started in 2003, "we think we could complete in 2009. However, we need two years to find partners and form the team, and started designing the aircraft to 2006. I think if the Solar Plane finally completed around the world in 2013 the term will have been acceptable, "said the researcher.