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Superbus gets road trial in June
The Superbus, designed by former Dutch astronaut Wubbo Ockels, will get its first road trial on 25 June. The bus, which can woosh by at 250 km/h, is set to trial run on a 27-kilometer stretch of...
View ArticleJan Akkerman concert on laddermill power
Dutch guitar giant Jan Akkerman, former astrounaut Wubbo Ockels and Delft University all worked together to come up with this tiny concert in the Stadspark of Groningen last year. The reason? The...
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Kite your way from Amsterdam to New York in four days
The vehicle pictured above consists of a kite, a cabin and a keel, and should be able to take you across the Atlantic Ocean. The 157 m2 kite should produce enough power to make you go 90 km/h, the...
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André Kuipers to stay half a year in space
André Kuipers has been to space before, but according to De Telegraaf (Dutch) this time the Amsterdam medical doctor is scheduled for a half year stay on the ISS as part of expedition 30/31. He should...
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Angel of Death, unemployed prosecuted, Superbus – updates
Here are some interesting updates of past 24 Oranges stories. * Lucia de Berk, the serial killer seemingly convicted on the basis of flawed statistics, received some good news today. Now that her case...
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Sailboat uses wind power to generate electricity
Well. Well well well. Ah well. In other news, astronaut-inventor Wubbo Ockels is at it again. For the past five years he has been working on a hybrid, energy-neutral ketch called Ecolution and it is...
View ArticleSuperbus gets shown to the press
On April 4 former astronaut Wubbo Ockels showcased his Superbus to the press at a former air strip near Leiden. For those of you who don’t remember, the Superbus is a bus shaped like a race car. Its...
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Kite Power demo by former astronaut Wubbo Ockels
Back in 2008 a concert raised money to develop the laddermill, a sustainable invention by former astronaut Wubbo Ockels (shown here), and today Ockel’s Kite Power research group from the Delft...
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Dutch spaceman Wubbo Ockels dies
Former Dutch astronaut Wubbo Ockels died earlier today in Amsterdam as the result of cancer, NRC writes. Ockels was born in 1946 in Almelo. In 1985 he spent 7 days in space on board the US space...
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What happened to the Superbus?
It was a crazy idea that might just work—the Superbus, a cross between a Formula One car and good old public transport. The Superbus was one of the many sustainable inventions that Delft technology...
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