Green Options » world record http://greenoptions.com/tag/world-record Posts tagged 'world record' Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:37:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Solarmer Breaks Plastic Solar Cell Efficiency World Record, Again http://cleantechnica.com/2009/10/23/solarmer-breaks-plastic-solar-cell-efficiency-world-record-again/ http://cleantechnica.com/2009/10/23/solarmer-breaks-plastic-solar-cell-efficiency-world-record-again/#comments Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:37:57 +0000 Zachary Shahan http://cleantechnica.com/2009/10/23/solarmer-breaks-plastic-solar-cell-efficiency-world-record-again/
Solarmer Energy broke the world record for plastic cell efficiency last year. Now, they’ve just broken it again.

The new efficiency record is 7.6% and it breaks 7% for the first time.

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2009/10/23/solarmer-breaks-plastic-solar-cell-efficiency-world-record-again/feed/ New World Record in Solar Power Efficiency http://cleantechnica.com/2009/08/21/new-world-record-in-solar-power-efficiency/ http://cleantechnica.com/2009/08/21/new-world-record-in-solar-power-efficiency/#comments Fri, 21 Aug 2009 23:21:34 +0000 Zachary Shahan http://cleantechnica.com/2009/08/21/new-world-record-in-solar-power-efficiency/

A Chinese company set a new world record in solar power efficiency this week. According to the company, Suntech Power Holdings, they achieved a 15.6% conversion efficiency on “a commercial grade multi-crystalline silicon PV module.” This breaks a 15-year-old world record set by US company Sandia National Labs.

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2009/08/21/new-world-record-in-solar-power-efficiency/feed/ Electric Motorbike Does 0 to 60 in Under One Second! http://gas2.org/2009/04/27/electric-motorbike-does-0-to-60-in-under-one-second/ http://gas2.org/2009/04/27/electric-motorbike-does-0-to-60-in-under-one-second/#comments Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:32:07 +0000 Jerry James Stone http://gas2.org/2009/04/27/electric-motorbike-does-0-to-60-in-under-one-second/

While riding an electric motorcycle powered by cordless-drill batteries, Scotty Pollacheck made drag racing history for the second time. He went from 0 to 60 mph in less than a second!

The KillaCycle® — originally designed and built in 1999 –uses a series of more than 1,200 batteries to power two motors which crank out 500 bhp. The bike can reach a jaw dropping 168 mph.

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]]> http://gas2.org/2009/04/27/electric-motorbike-does-0-to-60-in-under-one-second/feed/ Wind Powered Vehicle Hits 126 MPH, Breaks World Record http://gas2.org/2009/03/30/wind-powered-vehicle-hits-126-mph-breaks-world-record/ http://gas2.org/2009/03/30/wind-powered-vehicle-hits-126-mph-breaks-world-record/#comments Mon, 30 Mar 2009 11:41:50 +0000 Jerry James Stone http://gas2.org/2009/03/30/wind-powered-vehicle-hits-126-mph-breaks-world-record/

It took 10 years, but Richard Jenkins — a British engineer from Hampshire — has broken the land speed record for a wind-powered vehicle.

The Ecotricity Greenbird, on the dry plains of Ivanpah Lake just south of Las Vegas, hit a record breaking 126.1 mph. A speed which is 10 mph faster than the previous record which was set by American Bob Schumacher in 1999, driving his Iron Duck vehicle.

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]]> http://gas2.org/2009/03/30/wind-powered-vehicle-hits-126-mph-breaks-world-record/feed/ Solar Car Finishes Record-Breaking Around-the-World Trip http://gas2.org/2008/12/04/solar-car-finishes-record-breaking-around-the-world-trip/ http://gas2.org/2008/12/04/solar-car-finishes-record-breaking-around-the-world-trip/#comments Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:23:08 +0000 Alex Felsinger http://gas2.org/2008/12/04/solar-car-finishes-record-breaking-around-the-world-trip/

To celebrate the record-breaking environmental achievement, the driver arrived at the World Climate Change Conference in Poland and plowed through a wall of Styrofoam, releasing some of the only harmful emissions on the car’s 32,000-mile trip.

Louis Palmer, 36, drove the “solar taxi” through 38 countries, picking up celebrities and global officials for short legs along the way. Palmer says his passengers included U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Monaco’s Prince Albert, Hollywood filmmaker James Cameron, and Sweden’s Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt.

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]]> http://gas2.org/2008/12/04/solar-car-finishes-record-breaking-around-the-world-trip/feed/ Michigan Students Set World Record for Longest Flight by Fuel Cell Powered Plane http://gas2.org/2008/11/23/michigan-students-set-world-record-for-longest-flight-by-fuel-cell-powered-plane/ http://gas2.org/2008/11/23/michigan-students-set-world-record-for-longest-flight-by-fuel-cell-powered-plane/#comments Sun, 23 Nov 2008 20:29:50 +0000 Andrew Williams http://gas2.org/2008/11/23/michigan-students-set-world-record-for-longest-flight-by-fuel-cell-powered-plane/

A group of students from the University of Michigan have set a new world record for the longest flight ever by a fuel-cell powered plane.

Late last month the team, known as SolarBubbles, flew the $2,500 plane (video) around a field in Milan, Michigan for a total of 10 hours, 15 minutes and 4 seconds - smashing the previous 9 hour record held by a Californian engineering company.

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]]> http://gas2.org/2008/11/23/michigan-students-set-world-record-for-longest-flight-by-fuel-cell-powered-plane/feed/ Biodiesel Powered Earthrace Beats Around the World Record by 14 Days http://gas2.org/2008/06/28/biodiesel-powered-earthrace-beats-around-the-world-record-by-14-days/ http://gas2.org/2008/06/28/biodiesel-powered-earthrace-beats-around-the-world-record-by-14-days/#comments Sat, 28 Jun 2008 12:00:58 +0000 Max Lindberg http://gas2.org/2008/06/28/biodiesel-powered-earthrace-beats-around-the-world-record-by-14-days/

Around the World in 60 Days

The sleek tri-hull Earthrace eco-boat, has beaten the world speed record for a powerboat to circumnavigate the globe.  The biodiesel powered craft traveled 24,000 nautical miles in 60 days, 23 hours and 49 minutes, finishing its journey by crossing the finish line in Sagunto, Spain.

That beat a record set in 1998 by the British boat, Cable and wireless Adventurer.

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