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For many years, cleantech has involved in a plowing uphill fight. Alternative energy, perhaps probably the most troublesome technology available on the market, poses a obvious threat to status quo non-renewable fuels industries supplying us using the huge most of our energy. As a result, the oil, gas and coal industries have labored tough to fresh paint clean energy like a silly hippie daydream. They've funded skeptical think tanks and used their assets to influence and attract conservative political figures and opinionators.
Consequently, the usual understanding in U.S. popular culture states clean energy continues to be a fantasy. Wind and photo voltaic "aren't there yet", planet are strange and hard to rely on, and without coal, coal and oil, why, the lights would up and set off in much of the nation! None of that's true, obviously, however the American public continues to be inculcated to think such boilerplate after many years of naysaying 'industry leaders' and dismissive op-eds and so forth. And that's why, when something similar to Solyndra happens, the sufficiently indoctrinated press eats up and states its biases.
I understand, I understand, you saw the headline, and were guaranteed awesome photo voltaic plane footage. But the suggestions above is the reason why a stunt such as the one portrayed within this short video below is really important. Headline-making stunts, like starting a photo voltaic-powered plane that may fly even during the night, showcase the latent energy of clean energy can break through everything saturated dogma and arrange prejudices more strongly than the usual hundred professional-oil speaking heads on Fox News.
The Photo voltaic Impulse is definitely an experimental jet which will make an effort to fly all over the world, nonstop, with 100% photo voltaic energy, in 2014. The great folks at System board come up with a pleasant documentary concerning the project. Take a look:
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