If you have recently been through the Uni Mail building in Geneva, the presence of an iceberg that is shrinking day after day has surely not eluded you. What could this installation signify? Doesn’t it mean anything to you? Melting ice, of course! Unfortunately, this phenomenon that results from global warming does not come without… Read more

During the trip around the world (2010-2012), the MS Tûranor PlanetSolar sailed for 26 days from one side of the Atlantic to the other, thereby claiming the world record speed for a solar-powered transatlantic crossing and her first entry in the Guinness World Records™. It hasn’t been broken since. It was not until 2013 that… Read more

That’s what navigation is, a lesson in patience.nYou take off, and already you are asking yourself when you will arrive. Add to it a record to break and you cannot stop yourself from toying with the calculator, tallying averages, subtracting miles, and adding up hours…And the closer we get, the more it becomes an obsession,… Read more

Less than 1,000 miles, a symbolic marker of the distance that separates us from St. Martin, expressed in three-digit numbers. Even though the onboard experience hasn’t changed much, we cannot help but make predictions, not only because we are eager, but because now we know that we will arrive around Friday the 17th or Saturday… Read more

We are well past the halfway point and we have changed how we measure distance: we are no longer adding up the miles from our starting point; now we are subtracting the miles that separate us from our destination. It’s a bit like this halfway point was the summit of a large hill, and we… Read more

During our expedition aboard the TPS, we’ll be interested particularly in the signature of the different bodies of water that we’ll encounter along the Gulf Stream. These bodies of water can be, for example, identified not only by transitions in temperature, salinity or oxygen level, but also by the distribution of phytoplankton in the water…. Read more

It’s Sunday.And on Sunday mornings, we clean. That’s how it is, a personal principle, intangible, already in force since I rowed across the Atlantic and Pacific. Back then, weather permitting, it was a major cleaning, drying, and inventory-taking; even I was subject to the bare minimum service—I shaved. Now I impose this rule on the… Read more

PlanetSolar’s list of 2013 sponsors is even more complete with the arrival of Ed and Rachelle Begley, actors, defenders of the environment and the most ecologically responsible couple in the US. Ed Begley Jr. is a six-time Emmy nominated actor who has been embracing solar energy, electric vehicles and championing environmental causes for decades.  Ed… Read more

While the MS Tûranor PlanetSolar is currently trying to break its own speed record for crossing the Atlantic, the team is celebrating the first anniversary of the first trip around the world powered exclusively by solar energy On May 4, 2012, the MS Tûranor PlanetSolar was the first solar vehicle—all types of transportation taken into… Read more

Dawn after dawn, days after day, it’s the same distressing discovery: a sky full of clouds. This morning, there was something for everyone. At all altitudes, they are all here: cirrus, cumulus, cumulonimbus, transparent, off-white, light and dark gray, interwoven or cauliflower-shaped, even a sheet of rain to the southeast. A delight for meteorologists, another… Read more