Official: Solar plane to help energy use on ground

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Andre Borschberg, one of two pilots of the Solar Impulse plane is interviewed by a reporter on a ladder as he sits inside the cockpit of the solar powered plane during a media availability at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center at Washington Dulles International Airport in Chantilly, Va., Monday, June 17, 2013. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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Official: Solar ... Andre Borschberg, one of two pilots of the Solar Impulse plane is interviewed by a reporter on a ladder as he sits inside the cockpit of the solar powered plane during a media availability at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center at Washington Dulles International Airport in Chantilly, Va., Monday, June 17, 2013. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
NASA picks 8 new... This photo provided by NASA shows Nicole Aunapu Mann. NASA has eight new astronauts _ its first new batch in four years. Mann is one of the candidates. Mann, 35, Major, U.S. Marine Corps, originally is from Penngrove, Calif. She is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, Stanford (Calif.) University and the U.S. Naval Test Pilot School, Patuxent River, Md. Mann is an F/A 18 pilot, currently serving as an Integrated Product Team Lead at the U.S. Naval Air Station, Patuxent River. (AP Photo/NASA)
Airborne laser r... In this photo taken on June 28, 2012, Cambodia's famed Angkor Wat temples complex stands in Siem Reap province, some 230 kilometers (143 miles) northwest Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Airborne laser technology has uncovered a network of roadways and canals, illustrating a bustling ancient city linking Cambodia's Angkor Wat temples complex. The discovery was announced late Monday, June 17, 2013, in a peer-reviewed paper released early by the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)
AP IMPACT: Bites... In this Thursday, March 28, 2013, photo, Dr. Frank Wright, a forensic dentist, studying evidence in a bite mark analysis, which he practices on a regular basis in between seeing patients, is photographed at his office in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Al Behrman)
Men wrongly conv... FILE-In this Friday, Feb. 15, 2008 file photo shows Kennedy Brewer, right, hugged by a friend, moments after a circuit court judge exonerated him for the kidnapping and murder of a 3-year-old girl in Macon, Miss. Convicted in 1995 of raping and killing his girlfriend's 3-year-old daughter and sentenced to death. In 2001, DNA testing proved that Brewer was innocent. Since 2000, at least 18 men convicted in rapes and murders largely because of bite-mark analysis have been exonerated by DNA testing or otherwise proved not guilty. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)
Beyond NYC: Othe... FILE - In this Oct. 24, 2011 file photo, cars are parked on an overfly on a flooded street in Bangkok, Thailand. Sea level rise projections show Bangkok could be at risk of inundation in 100 years unless preventive measures are taken. But when the capital and its outskirts were affected in 2011 by the worst flooding in half-a century, the immediate trigger was water run-off from northern provinces, where dams failed to contain unusually heavy rains. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong, File)
Scientists movin... A Dec. 22, 2005, photo provided by Brookhaven National Laboratory shows the 50-foot-wide electromagnet storage ring at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, N.Y., on eastern Long Island. The ring, which will capture subatomic particles that live only 2.2 millionths of a second, will be transported in one piece, and moved flat, to its new home at the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois. The trip is expected to take more than a month. (AP Photo/Brookhaven National Laboratory)
Climate talk shi... FILE - This May 10, 2013 file photo shows view of the Manhattan Bridge, left, and Brooklyn Bridge as seen from the 105th floor of One World Trade Center, in New York. Seven months after Superstorm Sandy swamped New York, Mayor Michael Bloomberg proposed a nearly $20 billion plan Tuesday, June 11, 2013, to protect the city from the effects of global warming and storms. (AP photo/Mark Lennihan, File)
US court says hu... FILE - In this June 4, 2013 file photo actress Angelina Jolie arrives for the film premiere World War Z in Berlin, Germany. The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that companies cannot patent parts of naturally-occurring human genes, a decision with the potential to profoundly affect the emerging and lucrative medical and biotechnology industries. It throws out patents held by Utah-based Myriad Genetics Inc. on an increasingly popular breast cancer test brought into the public eye recently by actress Angelina Jolie’s revelation that she had a double mastectomy because of one of the genes involved in this case. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, File)
Protecting NYC: ... New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg speaks while a map of the projected 2050s 100-year flood plain of New York City is displayed in New York, Tuesday, June 11, 2013. Removable flood walls would be set up for much of lower Manhattan, a 15-to-20-foot levee would guard part of Staten Island and gates and levees would shield Brooklyn as part of a nearly $20 billion plan Mayor Michael Bloomberg proposed Tuesday to protect New York City from storms and the effects of global warming. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
To ease shortage... Dr. Anthony Atala holds the "scaffolding" for a human kidney created by a 3-D printer in a laboratory at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C., on Wednesday, May 8, 2013. The university is experimenting with various ways to create replacement organs for human implantation, from altering animal parts to building them from scratch with a patient's own cells. (AP Photo/Allen Breed)
China's Shenzhou... In this image made off the screen at the Beijing Aerospace Control Center and released by China's Xinhua News Agency, Chinese astronauts, from left, Wang Yaping, Zhang Xiaoguang and Nie Haisheng, wave inside the Tiangong-1 space module Thursday, June 13, 2013. China's Shenzhou-10 manned spacecraft successfully completed an automated docking with the orbiting space module Thursday and the three astronauts climbed aboard what will be their home for the next week, state media reported. (AP Photo/Xinhua) NO SALES
Cuba girds for c... In this May 21, 2013 photo, flamingos walk in a lake in Cayo Coco, in Ciego de Avila, Cuba. Scientists project that rising sea levels would seriously damage or wipe dozens of Cuban towns off the map. Beaches would be submerged, they found, while freshwater sources would be tainted and croplands rendered infertile. (AP Photo/Franklin Reyes)
Meet your distan... This undated handout artist rendering provided by Xijun Ni, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences shows a reconstruction of Archicebus achilles in its natural habitat of trees. One of our earliest primate relatives was a hyperactive wide-eyed creature so small you could fit a few of them in your hand, if they would just stay still long enough, new fossil evidence shows. (AP Photo/Xijun Ni, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Court ruling may... FILE - A technician loads patient samples into a machine for testing at Myriad Genetics Friday, May 31, 2002, in Salt Lake City. DNA samples are moved from one tray to another by the eight-needle apparatus at left. The Supreme Court ruled Thursday, June 13, 2013 that Myriad Genetics Inc. cannot patent the BRCA genes, which are tested to check a woman’s risk for breast and ovarian cancer. Mutations in these genes are what led Angelina Jolie to have both her breasts removed because she had such a high cancer risk. Some experts think the court ruling may lead to lower cost testing because there could be more competition. (AP Photo/Douglas C. Pizac)
Not quite the ER... Mimi Leveque, a freelance conservator, cleans Padihershef, a 2,500-year-old Egyptian mummy at Mass General Hospital in Boston, Friday, June 7, 2013. Padihershef, who has made MGH his home since 1823, was a 40-year old stonecutter in the necropolis in Thebes, an ancient city on the west bank of the Nile. (AP Photo/Gretchen Ertl)
UN climate talks... FILE - In this Dec. 3, 2009 file photo smoke billows from a chimney of the cooling towers of a coal-fired power plant in Dadong, Shanxi province, China. The International Energy Agency says the world's energy-related carbon dioxide emissions rose 1.4 percent in 2012 to a record high of 31.6 gigatons, even as the U.S. posted its lowest emissions since the mid-1990s. In a report released Monday June 10, 2013, the IEA says China saw the largest emissions growth last year, but the increase was among the lowest seen in a decade amid investments in renewable energy and energy efficiency. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)
Solar-powered pl... FILE- In this Wednesday, May 22, 2013, file photo, the Solar Impulse, piloted by André Borschberg, takes flight during the second leg of the 2013 Across America mission, at dawn, at Harbor International Airport in Phoenix. The solar-powered plane neared the close of a cross-continental journey and landed at Dulles International Airport outside the nation's capital early Sunday, June 16, 2013, only one short leg to New York remaining. (AP Photo/Matt York, File)
Tereshkova marks... Russian President Vladimir Putin awards cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space, with the Order of Alexander Nevsky in the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, Friday, June 14, 2013. Putin met with Russian cosmonauts to mark the 50th anniversary of Tereshkova's flight. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Mikhail Klimentyev, Presidential Press Service)