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Energy

Solar Plane flies from Spain to Morocco, then into Morocco’s rugged Interior

Juan Cole 06/22/2012

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The solar-powered Solar Impulse airplane built by a Swiss concern, having flown successfully from Madrid to Rabat, has just completed a flight over the Moroccan countryside that included having to get above the Atlas mountains:

This video on the earlier Europe-to-Africa passage shows the plane in flight:

I like flying, but am aware that the hydrocarbon version is deadly to the environment and probably unsustainable as petroleum prices will rise again once the world economy improves. The Solar Impulse is the future.

Filed Under: Energy, Environment

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page

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