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Alternative power
Fossil fuels still account for the vast majority of the worlds
energy consumption, but the search for pollution-free,
sustainable alternatives is stepping up considerably. In the
transport sector, where environmental pressures are high, a
number of alternatives to petrol and diesel are in development and testing. One of these is solar power, and numerous
projects demonstrating the potential of solar powered vehicles
are underway. In addition to solar powered cars, planes and
boats are now also getting in on the act. This July, the Solar
Impulse aircraft completed its rst night ight, powered only
by solar energy stored during the day. As the rst solar aircraft able to y day and
night, the next challenge for Solar Impulse is to y around the world without using any
fuel or producing any pollution. On pages 24-27 we have a feature on the PlanetSolar
catamaran, which plans a similar around-the-world journey next year. Both these craft
rely on composites to achieve the lightweight, high strength construction necessary to
reduce power useage and to take into account the extra weight of the solar technology
and batteries on board. While these solar projects are a long way from commercialisation
they serve to highlight the potential of composites in these challenging applications.
While PlanetSolar provides an innovative one-o example of composites use in boat
building, there have been a number of roadblocks preventing composites from fullling
their full potential in marine applications. Our feature on pages 24-28 discusses some of
the issues including variability, qualication and behaviour in res and the progress
being made in addressing these, while on pages 28-31 we see why shipyards are now
showing more interest in using more sophisticated composite engineering software tools.
To complete this issue we have three features (pages 32-44) looking at
the latest developments in core materials and sandwich structures.

Amanda Jacob, Editor

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