The solar powered drill system

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1. Resource Description

   Solar panels are a reliable, pollution-free and light-weight source of power. The use of solar powered drills for ice core recovery was pioneered by the Ice Core Paleoclimatology Group at OSU and Bruce Koci of the Polar Ice Coring Office in the early 1980s. The superiority of solar power for ice core drilling (where adequate solar insolation is available) was first demonstrated by the recovery of two cores the bedrock on the Quelccaya Ice Capin 1983.

2. Additional Name

   solar powered drill system

3. Contact

   Bryd Contact

4. Part of Collection

   Office of Research Collection

5. Part of Collection

   Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center

6. Location

   Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center