PlanetSolar Foundation will soon produce its own energy and cover its operating costs thanks to the sun! During spring, the Foundation will built a large 99 kW solar power plant on the roof of its partner MPS’s factory in Biel, with the collaboration of Soleol, also partner company. This large solar power plant, named “PlanetSolar...
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Pioneers in Solar Energy presented in Marin Centre (NE)!
The exhibition “Pioneers and Adventurers in Solar Energy” is open to visitors (free), in the lower hall of Marin Centre, in the canton of Neuchâtel (Switzerland), between October 30 and November 17, 2018. Opening time : • Monday, from 08:00 am to 07:00 pm • Tuesday, from 08:00 am to 07:00 pm • Wednesday, from...
An exhibition, a book and wonderful encounters
Monday, October 22, 2018 was a memorable day for PlanetSolar Foundation. Attended by Prince Albert II of Monaco, the Foundation brought together the pioneers in solar energy from all over the world: women and men who marked the history of solar energy through their fabulous adventures. The great names of solar exploration were alongside the...
D-7: “Pioneers and Adventurers of Solar Energy”: an exhibition and a book about the past of solar adventures!
On Monday, October 22, 2018, PlanetSolar Foundation will inaugurate in Montreux its traveling exhibition “Pioneers and Adventurers of Solar Energy”, with the presence of Prince Albert II of Monaco. A book, edited by Editions Favre and co-written by Raphaëlle Javet and Raphaël Domjan, director and president of the PlanetSolar Foundation, will also be presented for...
Solar generator on the roof of Lycée Amadou Sow Ndiaye, in Saint-Louis of Senegal
The heat and the humidity are stifling, at the end of the rainy season in Saint-Louis of Senegal. Ancestral traditions and vestiges of the colonial past are combined in the estuary of the Senegal River, which marks the border with Mauritania. In the middle of the city, the Lycée Amadou Sow Ndiaye welcomes more than...
First meeting of the Explorers Club Switzerland Chapter!
Created in March 2018, the “Switzerland Chapter” of the famous Explorers Club met for the first time in Switzerland, on Turthday, the 14 of June 2018. The Explorers Club is a historical institution, founded in New York in 1905. It counted among its members many great figures of exploration. Members of the Swiss Section met...
PlanetSolar: a name that lives again!
It’s official! The Foundation become again PlanetSolar Foundation, named in memory of the fabulous adventure around the world between 2010 and 2012 by the solar boat PlanetSolar. The Foundation’s team is proud to present you its new website – www.planetsolar.swiss – which will be a platform to follow its projects. This change of name and...
Le Conseil de fondation rencontre l’équipe de Race for Water
Le 7 novembre dernier, la Fondation SolarPlanet a tenu son Conseil de fondation au cours duquel les anciens capitaines de PlanetSolar Patrick Marchesseau et Erwann Le Rouzic, ainsi que Roland Loos et Thierry Plojoux, du team SolarStratos, ont été accueillis comme nouveaux membres. Le Conseil de fondation a eu en outre le plaisir de désigner...
A la rencontre de l’un des pères des avions solaires
La Fondation SolarPlanet s’attèle à mettre en lumière et à conserver le patrimoine des pionniers des véhicules et des aventures solaires. Elle a ainsi retrouvé la trace de Fred To, inventeur du premier avion solaire à avoir volé, Solar One, et qui prit son premier envol à Lasham, en Angleterre, le 19 décembre 1978. Récit...
L’histoire des bateaux solaires dans l’émission EUREKA de CanalAlpha
La Suisse est pionnière dans le domaine des bateaux solaires. L’émission EUREKA de CanalAlpha est revenue sur les traces de ces pionniers. Un excellent reportage avec nos fondateurs Mark Wuest et Jean-François Affolter, ainsi que notre historienne Raphaëlle Javet. Pour voir l’émission, cliquez ICI.