Marta MolinasNTNU-Department of Electric Power EngineeringMy EiT Village-2011

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The ProjectA team wanting to promoteA team wanting to promote

renewable energies sets off into d t f d dan adventure of dream and

science...

To harness solar power and use itTo harness solar power and use it to fly day and night without fuel

The revenge of Icarus in a way…

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The FactThe Fact"The airplane is the means of transport using the most energy and it alone represents more than 3 % of the total gas emissions contributing to the greenhouse effect on the planet! If all airplanes were to become solar, this would be tremendous.

Your ideasWhat thoughts can you bring into this challenge? How do you want the solar airplane to be?How you do NOT want it to be? When you fly in a conventional airplane you take it for granted….yet, if you were to design it yourself, how would you do it….Answer these questions and you will get into a different road not yet taken

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Answer these questions and you will get into a different road not yet taken…

A new Utopia? A beautiful scene from a science fiction?

No, an avant-garde technological challenge!.

22.09.2010 First flight

6 h 21min, 48km/hi l l !!!in a solar plane!!!

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Get into the dream and take the challenge!g

InvestigateIn which ways solar energy can be used in aIn which ways solar energy can be used in a plane?How the energy management inside could be designed?Are the materials we know today proper?Are the materials we know today proper?In which part s of the state of the applied art will we need a breakthrough to get planes that fly on solar power for long hours during the night?night? What are the obstaclesof this dream?Go and find them….

Identify and express your ideasPush yourselves outside your normal ways ofthinking. Go beyond the frontiers of knowledge…

This adventure is a state of mind in the face of theunknown, being in an experimental field.

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Tasks

• aerodynamics• material science• electrical engineering• physics• energy• chemistry• thermodynamics • and what more? go and identify themand what more? go and identify them….

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All that is impossible remains to be achievedJules Verne

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