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Solar Power for the World
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Solar Power for the World

by Wolfgang Palz
October 2013
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
800 pages
22h 43m
English
CRC Press
Content preview from Solar Power for the World
Chapter 44
Solar Bicycles, Mercedes,
Handcuffs—PlusEnergy Buildings
Gallus Cadonau
Swiss Solar Agency, Waltensburg/Zurich, Switzerland
44.1 A Worldwide Unique Solar Decision: Tour de Sol
44.1.1 CO
2
-Free Hotel Ucliva in the Swiss Alps: 1st Solarcar
Race of the World
On October 27th, 1984, a worldwide unique decision was taken in
the CO
2
-free, ecological Hotel Ucliva in Waltensburg, approximately
100 km north-west of St. Moritz in the south-eastern part of
Grisons/Switzerland. In 1985, the world’s first solarcar race, the
Tour de Sol, shall take place. With a solarcar race from the Lake of
Constance to the Lake of Geneva, the power of solar energy shall
be
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ISBN: 9789814411875