Exploring the future of green hydrogen through a historic advancement in sustainable aviation

Dr. Bertrand Piccard’s career as a global adventurer has helped demonstrate what is possible with renewable energy and clean technology. In this interview, he discusses his Solar Impulse project, the first round-the-world flight in a solar-powered airplane and his ongoing mission to promote clean energy and clean technology. “I remember flying across the ocean for several days at a time, with only the sun keeping my engines running,” Dr. Piccard says. “I thought I must be in the future, in a science fiction story. But it made me realize how much the world is actually living in the past.”

With this in mind, Dr. Piccard founded the Solar Impulse Foundation, which has identified over 1,000 technical solutions to help the world decarbonize. Now, his Climate Impulse project will fly a green-hydrogen-powered airplane non-stop around the world to show how green hydrogen can decarbonize aviation and other notoriously “hard-to-abate” industries. “Sustainability should not be a wish for the future but a practical action for the present. This is the greatest adventure of the 21 st century.”