An experimental airship powered by solar panels is aiming to travel around the world, non-stop.
Solar panels will generate power during the day and create hydrogen via water electrolysis to keep the ship moving at night. It will carry three people over 40,000 km, flying over 25 countries in less than four weeks. It’s due to set off in 2026.
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Solar panels will generate power during the day and create hydrogen via water electrolysis to keep the ship moving at night. It will carry three people over 40,000 km, flying over 25 countries in less than four weeks. It’s due to set off in 2026.
#circumnavigate #airship #solarpower #airtravel
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00:00The solution here is quite simple, it's electric power, but electric power applied at a scale
00:12to take an aircraft 40,000 kilometres around the world, without having to have recharging
00:19infrastructure wherever they land, and to allow them to be flexible in the route that
00:24they take, but also be zero emissions on route, and be zero harm wherever they go.
00:35So it's more than just a theoretical experiment, it's really going to be a practical demonstration
00:41for a global flight.