The incredible challenge of flying with solar energy
Posted: Sat Feb 01, 2025 6:32 am
Renewable energies are in luck and are beginning to gain followers on a large scale. In June we celebrated that the “Solar Impulse 2” plane had landed in Seville, completing the first transatlantic flight entirely powered by solar energy. And just one month later, its pilots had already managed to complete a historic trip around the world in 505 days and 17 flights.
Thanks to solar energy , the plane was able rcs data asia successfully cover each stage of its journey, passing through Oman, India, Myanmar, China, Japan, the United States, Spain - Seville was its only stop in Europe - and Egypt.
Naturally, due to its recent development and the exclusive use of renewable energy , this aircraft is slower than conventional ones and, in order to generate enough energy to fly, its enormous 72-metre wings are covered with 269.5 square metres of photovoltaic cells.
Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg are the two pilots who founded the company and completed this first circumnavigation of the globe without fuel. Their solar plane became a true flying laboratory, packed with clean technologies, with which they managed to fly 40,000 km to promote the use of renewable energy and energy efficiency, in search of a better quality of life for all.
Bertrand Piccard, a psychiatric physician, explorer and balloonist, said: “If governments had the courage to promote clean technologies on a large scale, our society could simultaneously reduce its dependence on fossil fuels, create jobs and stimulate sustainable growth.”
The company's co-founder, engineer and professional pilot André Borschberg, explained: “Building teams is both an art and a science. The value of talent is created through differences, not similarities.”
Thanks to solar energy , the plane was able rcs data asia successfully cover each stage of its journey, passing through Oman, India, Myanmar, China, Japan, the United States, Spain - Seville was its only stop in Europe - and Egypt.
Naturally, due to its recent development and the exclusive use of renewable energy , this aircraft is slower than conventional ones and, in order to generate enough energy to fly, its enormous 72-metre wings are covered with 269.5 square metres of photovoltaic cells.
Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg are the two pilots who founded the company and completed this first circumnavigation of the globe without fuel. Their solar plane became a true flying laboratory, packed with clean technologies, with which they managed to fly 40,000 km to promote the use of renewable energy and energy efficiency, in search of a better quality of life for all.
Bertrand Piccard, a psychiatric physician, explorer and balloonist, said: “If governments had the courage to promote clean technologies on a large scale, our society could simultaneously reduce its dependence on fossil fuels, create jobs and stimulate sustainable growth.”
The company's co-founder, engineer and professional pilot André Borschberg, explained: “Building teams is both an art and a science. The value of talent is created through differences, not similarities.”