The World Record of ‘most books exchanged’ has been achieved by Juvenile Welfare Centre – Abu Dhabi Police from Abu Dhabi, UAE.
On Nov 29, 2011; Two Thousand Eight Hundred Sixty Eight (2868) books were exchanged by people in eight hours in an event organized by Juvenile Welfare Centre – Abu Dhabi Police.
The World Record of ‘largest solar power plant of the world’ has been jointly achieved by The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System from Nipton, California, USA.
The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System is jointly owned by NRG Energy, BrightSource Energy and Google. It has 300,000 computer-controlled mirrors, each 7 feet high and 10 feet wide. It is controlled with computers to focus the Sun’s light to the top of 459-foot towers, where water is turned into steam to power turbines. At full capacity, the facility’s trio of 450-foot high towers produces a gross total of 392 megawatts of solar power. It is sprawling across 5 square miles of federal land near the California-Nevada border.
The World Record of ‘first to walk from sea level and climb up to the top of Mt. Everest’ has been jointly achieved by Mr. Tim Macartney-Snape and Mr. Greg Mortimer from Australia.
Macartney-Snape and Greg Mortimer started at sea level from the Bay of Bengal and walked the 1000 km to the foot of Everest before beginning the climbing and truly claimed to conquer the Everest’s 8874 metres height. They reached the summit, climbing without supplementary, via a new route on the North Face to Norton Couloir.