First of all, I would like to say that I haven´t knew about this thing! And I loved it!
I think that it´s very interesting because it´s an annual event where the most important people in each topic joins and shares things that may be of interest to anyone of us. Those topics concerns to all the human existance! Like economy, arts, design, culture, design, technology, entertainment, etc.
Well. I chosen the theme "design" and one of the expositions was the "Paul McCready: flies on solar wings" because the solar energy is something than I think that it must be used in most of every things. It´s the most valuable and inexhaustible resource.
Paul McCready talks and tells us how he got into de human powered aircrafts (economic reasons because he made a loan of uss 100.000 to a very friends of his to invert them on human powered aircraft´s contest and the friend lost it and returned him in terms of debt. He has to do something and won the contest, getting back the uss 100.000 plus uss300.000 more! And then he was on a family trip and started to watch the birds, how the could go in circles and beeing moved only by the air.
Time later, we started to work with the goberment people, and developed model planes, that could serve like surveillance birds for the army or the solar powered plane, that it´s just like a bird! Moves it´s wings and work like a real one! It´s amazing, really.
You should see he video, he´s a nice old men and shows some videos that are very interesting, at least for me.
Click on http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/176
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