'Scientific solutions for the common good': Betrand Piccard plots around-the-world hydrogen flight

Cecilia Keating
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'Scientific solutions for the common good': Betrand Piccard plots around-the-world hydrogen flight

Piccard and Raphael Dinelli gearing up for zero emission flight around the world in 2028

Swiss explorer and clean energy pioneer Bertrand Piccard has announced plans to fly non-stop around the equator in a plane powered by green hydrogen. Piccard announced this morning that he intends to...

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