As I write this, the Solar Impulse is traveling 94.2 km/h at an altitude of 7,016 meters en route to

As I write this, the Solar Impulse is traveling 94.2 km/h at an altitude cheap hotels paris of 7,016 meters en route to Madrid, where co-pilots Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg will switch seats before leaving for their final destination Morocco. This is the world s very first sun-powered transcontinental flight and its historic landing in Rabat, Morocco will coincide with the Moroccan Agency for Solar Energy s (MASEN) inauguration of the first of five massive thermo-solar plants in the Ouarzazate region .
After heavy fog in Payerne, Switzerland threatened cheap hotels paris to derail the well-laid plans to commence the first sun-powered transcontinental flight this morning, Borschberg was finally cheap hotels paris able to lift off at 08h24 UCT+. And ground crews in Toulouse are on standby in the event that meteorological cheap hotels paris or mechanical issues require an emergency landing.
It is possible to track progress cheap hotels paris of this historic flight (lots of history being made today as the second day of Egypt s first real, competitive elections come to a close) on the Solar Impulse website . Available are directional details, a map, and even live footage of the ground crew.
They will take part in a tour of the 160MW plant further south, which comprises just a small part of Morocco s plan to produce 2,000 MW of solar energy by 2020, resulting in carbon emissions savings of 3.7 million tons.