"The old world today is not a continent or country, but a state of mind of polluting technologies - oil and CO2 emissions," said Piccard. Jim Clash: Compare and contrast the Breitling Orbiter III and Solar Impulse projects. Bertrand Piccard: The balloon flight was the ultimate achievement we could do with technology that was 200 years old. Now I can do something useful.” I noticed that millions of people followed me on the balloon flight. There is the link: I would have done nothing without the balloon flight, but it was not enough for me to do just that.

Source: Forbes January 28, 2017 16:02 UTC