Solar Impulse continues to highlight clean technology
By Staff Writer - October 11, 2016
Bertrand Piccard, HSH Prince Albert II and André Borschberg congratulating Solar Impulse 2 team July 29 at MYC . Photo: ML
The pilots of Solar Impulse 2, the solar powered plane that completed a 43,000-kilometre (26,700-mile) journey around the world earlier this year, have other plans, the pair told a press conference in Geneva this week.
Their new project involves an unmanned version of Solar Impulse, aviator and engineer André Borschberg told reporters.
Borschberg and his business partner, Bertrand Piccard, had taken turns flying the aircraft in a mission controlled from headquarters in Monaco. Having showcased clean technologies, the Solar Impulse project now wants to provide a practical application for them, Piccard said.
The Swiss pioneers claim that an unmanned version of their craft could hover at altitudes relatively low compared to other pilotless craft such as satellites – about 20 kilometres (12 miles) above the earth – for months. Applications could include enhancing Wifi signals to poorly serviced areas or collecting agricultural data.
The Solar Impulse drone could do work “hardly done by other types of aircraft”, said Borschberg, who is Solar Impulse’s lead engineer. Piccard, an explorer who came up with the idea for the round-the-world flight, said that aside from working on a new aircraft, the Solar Impulse project would try to raise awareness about clean energies and their superiority to polluting fossil fuels.
Solar Impulse 2 circumnavigated the globe in 17 stages, with the final leg from Cairo to Abu Dhabi. Prince Albert is an enthusiastic supporter of Solar Impulse and was a frequent hands-on visitor to the Monaco command centre during the round the world flight.
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A Sovereign Ordinance published in the Journal de Monaco of April 20 regulates four zones to secure the maritime area around the offshore expansion project.
Two maritime zones become prohibited work areas for public access and all maritime activities. Navigation, anchoring and fishing are strictly forbidden; they are delimited by yellow buoys. The first stretches from the Spelugues marine protected area in the west to the Larvotto marine protected area in the east, while the second stretches out to the Larvotto marine area, at the eastern sea border of the Principality.
A further maritime zone prohibits the anchoring and navigation of water-based leisure craft, such as sailboats, scooters and rowing boats, located between the two preceding zones, and a maritime zone prohibits anchoring along the previous zones.
The regulation will come into effect from Tuesday, May 1, 2018, until the end of the construction of the marine infrastructure planned for 2020.
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More information: Directorate of Maritime Affairs +377 98 98 22 80.
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More information: Directorate of Maritime Affairs +377 98 98 22 80.
