Bertrand Piccard’s solar-powered adventure
www.ted.com For the dawn of a new decade, adventurer Bertrand Piccard offers us a challenge Find motivation in what seems impossible. He shares his own plans to do what many say can’t be done — to fly around the world, day and night, in a solar-powered aircraft.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world’s leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the “Sixth Sense” wearable tech, and “Lost” producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at www.ted.com Watch a highlight reel of the Top 10 TEDTalks at www.ted.com
Bertrand Piccard’s solar-powered adventure
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Nicely said Bertrand! the famous Dead crowd definitely knows what is on the other side, maybe that’s why the military and the government looks down upon the hippie crowd / culture. People do need to wake up, and stop being so stubborn and think with the gift you were given..
@Aerosteon
Haha nice way to put, I might wanna try!
Genius!Bravo!
This is the kind of talk that will get you laid if you repeat it to random women.
Pay attention to the words, not the voice.
7 minutes deep and his voice is driving me crazy. fuck this shit.
I too almost shut her down and I am so glad I did not. Unloading ballast - I use altering gratification(boring and threatening) - I believe I will steal Bertrands metaphor. I doubt he’ll mind. thank you!
All I can say is that this man is a major part of the small hope I hold for the future of mankind.
He is a man that will be remembered as one of the few that took renewable energy seriously and made the leap that was necessary to spark interest in peoples dulled and commercialized brains.
Keep doing what your doing, you will be remembered in history as a great man.
what kind of porn did he have in that balloon?
Well bertrand is actually SWISS he comes from the french talking part.
I remember were he introduced his solar aircraft in Dübendorf, thats near Zürich on a military airfield.
Wonderful!!! g8 ideas with philosophical support…
it appears he is french for some reason i have problems “computing” english in frech accent.
Wierd thou as i speak english fluidly and also understand it whit any wierdo accent but french does confuse my brain. hmm maybe it is because the accent resembels my native language sweedish as much so the brain tries to compute swedish when its english i dunno i speak better finnish and english then swedish anyways LoL
I`m sure Piccard will be sucessful
also have a look at hour project please
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london-delhi1
He’s Jean Luc’s grand grandfather
So when do the flights start? Is there a carry on limit?
This could be the next Professor X.
@CaptainKhrenov Thanks. The first time I tried to watch this vid I bailed after a minute.
GET TO DA CHOPPA~~!!!!!
sorry….
start watching from 10 minutes … the first half is pure b/s
Wow! A motivational message.
No one has ever posted anything like it on YouTube before.. How um… inspirational.
Nissan is manufacturing a new vehicle, the Leaf, which will be electric. Electric cars may not mean much in an area that generates electricity with coal/steam power, but it would make a lot of sense in an area that generates its power via water.
This mans talk is allegorical and reasoned, enlightened and pragmatic; addressing global concerns that by now must resonate deeply within us to a broad-based listenership. Rare (for me) to see a person encompasses such a myriad of issues and problems facing the globe today so eloquently.
Find motivation in what seems impossible sounds challenging and uplifting.
Choose Arjuna, choose…
It gets better after the new agey nonsense.
Yes I agree about Geothermal.. I just saw on the news a project for 50Mw, which is a start.. I think it was around 13 million donated for it.