solar-powered intercontinental trip Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Tue, 05 Jun 2012 17:52:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Solar Impulse Takes Off from Madrid to Complete 1,550 Miles of Solar Powered Trip https://www.greenoptimistic.com/solar-impulse-morocco-land-20120605/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/solar-impulse-morocco-land-20120605/#respond Tue, 05 Jun 2012 17:50:21 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=24832 Last week we’ve been telling you that Solar Impulse, world’s first airplane powered solely by solar power had landed in Madrid, the only stop in the trip to Morocco. The “man for the job” is Swiss adventurer Bertrand Piccard, a 54-year-old psychiatrist and balloonist, who will be taking his plane from Madrid to Rabat, Morocco. […]

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