Solar Car Completes Journey Around the World

                                                                                                       Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Yvo de Boer, left, arrives in a "solar taxi" to the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Poznan, Poland, Thursday, Dec 4, 2008. The solar vehicle, built by Louis Palmer from Switzerland with the help of Swiss scientists and driven by Palmer, right, has traveled around the world setting a world record of 52 000 km, or 32 300 miles through 38 countries using only solar energy.

Assoicated Press -  Photo: Alik Keplicz