Experimental Fuel-Cell Airplane Begins NASA Test

gilgsn writes "Planenews.com has a NASA press release from their Dryden Flight Research Center about the first large fuel-cell powered airplane to fly. The Helios prototype took-off Saturday at 8:43AM from the Hawaiian island of Kauai, using solar panels to power its 10 electric motors for takeoff and during daylight portions of its 20-hour shakedown flight. As sunlight diminishes, Helios switched to a fuel cell system to continue flight into the night. I wonder how long it will be before fuel cells are used on homebuilt experimentals."

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Re:convert to wind power

[WolfWithoutAClause]

I'm personally not so very worried about it. The earth has been a lot hotter before than it's ever going to be when we've run out of oil. The biggest problem is that people will get very upset when their patch of ground gets local problems from any global warming.