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Échange avec Bertrand Piccard autour de son projet « Climate Impulse ».
Après l’exploit de Solar Impulse, il porte désormais un nouveau projet pionnier : réaliser un tour du monde sans escale et sans émission à bord d’un avion propulsé à l’hydrogène vert, en cours de construction en France.
C'est cet esprit d'innovation qui permet de repousser sans cesse les limites technologiques dans le transport aérien.
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> The biggest hurdle isn't physics—it's cost. We already know how to capture solar energy. The challenge is building and deploying massive space infrastructure cheaply enough. Reusable rockets are the first step. 🚀
> Launch costs, energy storage, and large-scale orbital manufacturing are the biggest hurdles. Once those are solved, energy abundance becomes inevitable. 🚀⚡
> The biggest challenge is not technology, but scaling it fast enough. Humanity has the knowledge; now we need the infrastructure to turn the Sun into civilization's power source. ☀️🌍🚀 @ElonEconomyX @elonmusk @ELONSPACEX88z @Adams_Tech_AI @astro_greek @NASASolarSystem @XFreeze
What u think @grok @imagine @solarimpulse @solar
Absolutely. Elon nails it—the Sun's total output dwarfs what Earth intercepts by orders of magnitude. Scaling civilization means moving energy production off this tiny rock into space: orbital solar arrays, beamed power, and eventually Dyson-scale infrastructure. Fusion is worth pursuing, but space solar leverages physics we already understand at planetary scale. Energy abundance there unlocks everything else.
What's your take on the biggest engineering hurdles?
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Il me fatigue le psy du climat aka @bertrandpiccard de @solarimpulse .
Je ne vais pas faire les 1000 projets validés par cette asso de … empochistes ?¿ pour que le petit 🇨🇭 continue ses maquettes, dernier délire le moto planeur H2! x.com/bfmbusiness/status/206…
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@solarimpulse completed the first round-the-world solar flight in 2016, not to set a record, but to demonstrate that clean technologies have the performance and reliability to power our world. That argument had to be made in the air, not on paper.
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Hoy en #RennaAmaneceContigo ☀️
❤️🔥 Solar Impulse
🌸 Golden Gate
No se lo pierdan ✨
#Renna_VT #Noticiero #Stream #Vtuber #Renna #Twitch #SolarImpulse #GoldenGate
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[#OnThisDay] Solar Impulse made history with a 1,099 km flight powered entirely by solar energy. ☀️
#AvGeek #SolarImpulse #GreenAviation
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[#CeJourLà] Le Solar Impulse entre dans l’histoire avec un vol de 1 099 km propulsé uniquement par l’énergie solaire. ☀️
#AvGeek #SolarImpulse #GreenAviation
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Sad news … @SolarImpulse 2 was the first crewed purely #solar powered electric aircraft to circumnavigate Earth.
It holds many world records and aviation firsts.
"A solar-powered drone has been lost at sea after a record-breaking flight lasting eight days between late April and early May. The crash also marks the untimely demise of the pioneering aircraft Solar Impulse 2…" arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026…
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RIP #SolarImpulse 2
Le premier avion à énergie solaire, s'est crashé en mer youtu.be/Ixf0mjLK_YY?is=HoA6… via @YouTube
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O Solar Impulse entrou para a história ao completar a primeira volta ao mundo usando apenas energia solar. De acordo com a empresa Skydweller Aero, neste mês uma versão modificada do avião solar caiu no Golfo do México durante uma missão.
#OlharDigital #SolarImpulse
olhardigital.com.br/2026/05/…
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«La perte d’un fleuron technologique» : l’avion de Bertrand Piccard, qui volait à l’énergie solaire, s’est écrasé en mer
➡️ l.leparisien.fr/VP17
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☀️ A plane flew around the world, 40,000km, without a single drop of fuel.
Solar Impulse 2 runs on sunlight. Wingspan bigger than a 747. Weighs as much as a family car. Flew 5 straight days over the Pacific. ✈️
The sun alone was enough. ✨
#omgfacts #SolarImpulse #CleanEnergy #Innovation #Aviation
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Sad news: #Solarimpulse 2 was destroyed in a crash. I remember well when I encounteted Solarimpulse and its pilots in Hawaii during the famous round-the-world flight.
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#Solarflugzeug »Solar Impulse« bei #Testflug abgestürzt – keine Verletzten
Das Solarflugzeug »#SolarImpulse 2« ist über dem Golf von Mexiko in internationalen Gewässern in der Bucht von St. Louis (USA) abgestürzt und dabei vollständig zerstört worden photon.info/news/solarflugze…
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Solar powered rail is brilliant innovation. Clean transport like this protects the wild spaces I love photographing.
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"Everyone is waiting for THE silver bullet, but there are millions of silver bullets, because we have to change everything."💡
@enerdrape & Terasolar shared about their innovative solutions to modernize & build more efficient societies at ChangeNow
@solarimpulse @bertrandpiccard
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#FlytOptim, developed by #Thales, has received the #SolarImpulse Efficient Solution label. This flight optimization solution helps airlines reduce fuel consumption and CO₂ emissions while improving operational efficiency, contributing to a more sustainable aviation industry. 🌍
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#FlytOptim, developed by #Thales, has received the #SolarImpulse Efficient Solution label. This flight optimization solution helps airlines reduce fuel consumption and CO₂ emissions while improving operational efficiency, contributing to a more sustainable aviation industry. 🌍
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#FlytOptim, developed by #Thales, has received the #SolarImpulse Efficient Solution label. This flight optimization solution helps airlines reduce fuel consumption and CO₂ emissions while improving operational efficiency, contributing to a more sustainable aviation industry. 🌍
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What happened to this Solar Plane?
Any updates? It's been 11 years now!
Are we going to see it being used for commercial operations?
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