Friday January 23 2015   Jonathan Wilson, online managing editor Solar Impulse readies for round-the-world trip Details of the ambitious trip were unveiled this week by Solar Impulse founders and pilots Bertrand Piccard and Andre Borschberg. Crossing two oceans and four continents during its 35,000km journey, the elegant, dragonfly-esque, single-seater plane will take off from Abu Dhabi and make stops in multiple cities around the world including Muscat in Oman, Varanasi and Ahmedabad in India, Chongqing and Nanjing in China, and Phoenix, Arizona in the US. It will also stop in Europe and North Africa. Street lamp fully powered by wind … Continue reading E&T news weekly 34 – we choose our favourite engineering and technology news stories from the week