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"It's a new era. It's not science fiction. It's today," Piccard told CNN from California after his successful voyage. "It exists and clean technologies can do the impossible."
"Do not confuse motion and progress, A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress"
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Now This is Cool
(CNN) An experimental plane flying around the world without a single drop of fuel landed in California after a two-and-a-half day flight across the Pacific.
Piloted by Swiss explorer and psychiatrist Bertrand Piccard, Solar Impulse 2 touched down in Mountain View just before midnight (3 a.m. ET).
"It's a new era. It's not science fiction. It's today," Piccard told CNN from California after his successful voyage. "It exists and clean technologies can do the impossible."
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It better be mostly sunny ! 
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It better be mostly sunny !
That's probably why the solar energy is stored in a battery system aboard the plane. Anyway, you gotta admit the whole thing is pretty cool.
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