Category: Energy Issues

The sun is long gone, and the countdown to dawn is ticking away.  The crowds of press and crew have dwindled to a minimum at the Payerne airfield.  I am one of a handful of people awake and alert during this event.  A photographer once told me the key to a good picture is timing.  “You just need to be there,” he said.  That is also true of journalism.  At 1 a.m. I was allowed into the sacred heart of this Solar Impulse project to interview pilot Andre Borschberg.  I and a French journalist were the only two allowed into the control room, and the interviews were broadcast at solarimpulse.com.