My interview on BBC World Service Newshour: the heroism of the adventurer pilots, Bertrand Picard and Andre Borschberg, and the feeling on the ground of what their beautiful story means – at least for many in the clean energy industries.
Thoughts on Significance of Solar Impulse as it Finishes Epic Round-the-World Trip
By Jeremy Leggett, originally published by Jeremy Leggett blog
July 27, 2016
Jeremy Leggett
Jeremy Leggett is a social entrepreneur and author. He has been an Entrepreneur of the Year at the NewEnergy Awards, a CNN Principal Voice, and is founder and chairman of renewable energy company Solarcentury, and SolarAid. He chairs the financial think tank CarbonTracker, contributes to the Guardian and the Financial Times, and is an Associate Fellow at Oxford University’s Environmental Change Institute.
Tags: Renewable Energy, solar technology
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