my point was obviously about commercial and military aircraft.

At 04:22 PM 10/22/2008, Wirt Atmar wrote:
>Tom Emerson writes:
>
> > Also something the greens ignore with alternative fuels and such is
> > that you can't power an airplane with it.
> > ============================
> >
> >
> > I beg to differ...
> >
> > http://www.pvresources.com/en/helios.php
>
>To reinforce what Tom writes, I just converted one of Paul MacCready's talks
>that I had recorded into the new web-based format. It's at:
>
>     http://67.41.4.238/newtest/maccready/large.html
>
>As you undboubtedly know, Paul MacCready designed and built the Gossamer
>Condor and the Gossamer Challenger, but what you may not know is that he
>spent a great deal of time designing highly efficient vehicles because of his
>deep philosophical desire to reduce our footprint on the Earth. He was
>as "green" as anyone could get, and the inefficiency of cars infuriated him.
>
>Paul died last year, in August, at the age of 82. I recorded this 
>talk when he
>was 80. Because of his age, he's speaking slowly in the talk, so 
>take the time
>to listen carefully to what he has to say.
>
>If you wish to get to the meat of his talk, particularly in regards to solar-
>powered aircraft, you can click on the 5th thumbnail at the bottom of the
>page. If you do that quickly, you may have to wait just a bit for 
>the audio to
>download that far before it begins playing.
>
>Wirt Atmar
>
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