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Adventurer makes history with solar-powered joy ride

08 September 2008 | News From Around The Web > Market Watch | Source: abcnews.go.com
Swiss adventurer Louis Palmer is tackling the world's global energy crisis on three wheels at 35 miles per hour.Louis Palmer's Solar Taxi is powered by a combination of solar power and electric energy stored in two Zebra batteries. Almost 5 billion tons of crude oil are used each year globally, a natural resource that will be exhausted in less than 50 years.More than a year after he set off from the European Sustainable Energy Forum in Lucerne, Switzerland, 36-year-old Palmer is on track to become the first person ever to travel around the world in a car without a drop of gas -- proving, he says, that free fuel for life is not a fantasy of the future. Read the full story >>

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