Bertrand Piccard is heading for new horizons. His projects \”Solar Impulse\” [1], a human scientific and ecological adventure, aims to realize a round-the-world flight by a solar powered airoplane.
In Biel I had the chance to work for a lab at the University of applied sciences, where Andrea Vezzini and his staff developed a battery driven motorglider for a German Company [2]. Also read on at Slashdot [3].
[1] http://www.solar-impulse.com
[2] http://www.hta-bi.bfh.ch/E/induel/r_and_d/lange/
[3] http://science.slashdot.org/science/03/11/28/1438236.shtml
