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...Taylor. As a nuclear scientist at Los Alamos, N. Mex., in the 1950s, he designed the largest fission bomb that had ever been exploded. In the 1960s he worked on the U.S. Air Force's Project Orion, an aborted fission-powered spaceship that was supposed to explore the solar system. For now, Taylor is happy with his melting ice mound. Says he: "Standing on that pile of ice is pure adventure. We are developing the first renewable-energy cooling system that is competitive with electrical air conditioning...
...Reagan Administration's program was announced, its policy of less Government involvement in energy was clear. Since January, the Administration has scrapped virtually all remaining vestiges of gasoline and crude oil price controls, chopped $3 billion from the fiscal 1982 Energy Department budget, scaled back conservation and solar research programs, and sharply curtailed investment in synthetic-fuel projects. Reagan Administration officials admit that under such a free market energy program, fuel prices will rise until they reach world levels. But they maintain that the payoff will be more conservation of precious fuel, higher domestic energy production, and ultimately less...
With that, the Solar Challenger continued its climb to 2,000 ft. and headed northwest toward the English Channel. Five hours and 23 minutes later, after a flight of 230 miles at speeds no more than 47 m.p.h., Ptacek touched down at Manston Royal Air Force Base on the southeastern coast of England some 20 miles north of Dover. His odyssey might have made Icarus drop with envy. In a historic feat, Challenger had managed to cross the Channel powered only by the glinting rays...
Prior to last week's triumph, other planes had flown on sun-generated electricity. But until MacCready, energy was stored in batteries. By contrast, Challenger draws its electricity directly from 16,128 solar cells spread over the top of its 47-ft.-long wings and 13-ft. horizontal stabilizer. The cells, originally designed for Air Force satellites, were borrowed from NASA. (Their cost, if MacCready had had to buy them: at least $130,000.) During the flight, they produced a maximum of 2,700 watts of power, less than 4 h.p.; that is roughly one-thirtieth the power...
...position to record what turned out to be a perfect landing. Ptacek, gorging on chocolate mousse from R.A.F. chefs, said: "It was a real experience for someone like me who had never been to Europe." MacCready, joining the celebration with pilot and crew, conceded that "flying an airplane with solar cells is just about the most ridiculous use for solar energy that I can think of." Nonetheless, he insisted that the flight (total cost: more than $725,000) was not midsummer madness but the best way he knew to show the potential of solar power as an energy source...