{"id":36344,"date":"2015-07-07T14:08:23","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T00:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=36344"},"modified":"2021-08-12T13:00:20","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T23:00:20","slug":"solar-powered-planes-team-holds-special-session-for-university-of-hawaii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2015\/07\/07\/solar-powered-planes-team-holds-special-session-for-university-of-hawaii\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar-powered plane&#8217;s team holds special session for <abbr title=University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr>"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"676\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Jdgaxn4-TNI\" title=\"Youtube video player\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>After a record breaking five-day flight from Japan in July 2015, the solar-powered airplane the <a href=\"http:\/\/info.solarimpulse.com\/en\/our-adventure\/solar-impulse-2\/#.VZwvJnM5ClE\">Solar Impulse 2<\/a> touched down in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>. The innovative plane, with a wingspan longer than a Boeing 747, was housed in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/arl\/facilities\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>&#8217;s Hangar 111<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Said Solar Impulse Pilot and <abbr>CEO<\/abbr> Andre Borschberg, &ldquo;When I heard this from Japan I was extremely happy because in Japan we were in a tough situation to use a mobile hangar and to use it again in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> would have been very complicated, so a very big relief and so thankful and so much gratitude for the university here in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The Solar Impulse team recognized the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> with an exclusive open house, where invited students and faculty could get a closeup look at the groundbreaking technology.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It&#8217;s an awesome experience,&rdquo; said <a href=\"http:\/\/www.honolulu.hawaii.edu\/\">Honolulu Community College<\/a> graduate <strong>Jasmine Hoapili<\/strong>. &ldquo;Right now we&#8217;re doing a summer project having to do with solar panels, so it&#8217;s kind of cool that it&#8217;s on a big scale like this, because right now we&#8217;re just doing small scale.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It&#8217;s important because renewable energy is the future,&rdquo; added <a href=\"http:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/\"><abbr>UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa<\/a> student and mentor <strong>Travis Takashima<\/strong>. &ldquo;Being able to show the students this technology, it might spark something in them that will make them want to pursue something in renewable energy.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The Solar Impulse is a pretty amazing plane,&rdquo; said Honolulu <abbr>CC<\/abbr> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.honolulu.hawaii.edu\/aero\">aeronautical maintenance<\/a> student <strong>Alex Creadick<\/strong>. &ldquo;To be able to run purely on solar energy around the world is a remarkable feat. I&#8217;m glad to be here.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><abbr>UH<\/abbr>&#8217;s hangar was not only an ideal temporary shelter for the Solar Impulse 2. The educational host partner also provided the perfect audience for the project&#8217;s vision of demonstrating the potential of clean technologies for energy efficiency and for the production of renewable energy.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It&#8217;s a wonderful partner for us for many reasons,&rdquo; said Borschberg. &ldquo;One of the reasons is we like to interact with students. I also hope that if they have dreams, if they believe in something, they can see that anything is possible.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_36354\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36354\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/system-solar-impulse-tour.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"413\" class=\"size-full wp-image-36354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/system-solar-impulse-tour.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/system-solar-impulse-tour-260x173.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-36354\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students got a closeup look at the technology behind Solar Impulse 2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>For more photos, go to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/honolulucc\/sets\/72157655386407652\/page2\">Honolulu <abbr>CC<\/abbr> Flickr album<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Solar Impulse 2 team invited <abbr>UH<\/abbr> students and faculty for a closeup look at the technology behind the solar-powered airplane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,12],"tags":[876,1359,62,672,73,947],"class_list":["post-36344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-video","tag-aeronautical-maintenance","tag-energy","tag-honolulu-community-college","tag-renewable-energy","tag-sustainability","tag-uh-system","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36344"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146349,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36344\/revisions\/146349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}