OMEGA & Solar Impulse
In the 1960s, OMEGA and the rest of the world looked to the Moon. The first lunar landing was seen as the ultimate human adventure. Forty years later, priorities have changed and OMEGA and its Solar Impulse partners are looking at ways to tap into the power of the sun to address our planet’s pending ecological crisis.
Forty years after first landing on the Moon, OMEGA has taken up another formidable challenge also destined to make history. The company is a Main Partner in the Solar Impulse project, which aims to circumnavigate the globe in an airplane powered only by the sun.
In 2009, the HB-SIA, the Solar Impulse prototype with a 60-metre wingspan, was unveiled in Dübendorf, Switzerland. As a Main Partner, OMEGA is providing financial support and significant technological expertise. This venture will contribute substantially to the scientific and ecological development of alternative means of sustainable energy for the future.
Like our partners in the Solar Impulse project, we at OMEGA are concerned about the planet’s finite resources. There is an urgent need to tap into viable sustainable energy sources. The success of Solar Impulse will inspire people to realize that there is an enormously powerful energy source only eight light-minutes away, which has the potential to reduce our dependence on non-renewable resources and fossil fuels. There is no nobler aspiration than that of improving our planet’s health and enhancing its sustainability.
“. . . a project which has the potential to benefit the entire planet.”
Benefitting our planet
OMEGA and its partner companies at the Swatch Group are used to looking for non-standard approaches to the optimization of systems and devices and the engineers and technicians look forward to the unusual challenges posed by Solar Impulse. It is gratifying to deliver creative, reliable, robust solutions and to be a part of a project which has the potential to benefit the entire planet.
www.solarimpulse.com