The blue squares on top of the Helios Prototype's 247-foot-long wing hold 64,000 solar cells fabricated by SunPower of Sunnyvale, California. Seventy-five percent of the captured solar power is wasted. Harnessing this lost energy with proton exchange membrane fuel cells will be the next step in the unmanned aircraft's evolution. Click to enlarge.

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