Innovation is a necessity if it is an emanation of human genius on the way to a better quality of life, but a catastrophe if it justifies wait-and-see and paralysis by waiting for new solutions to be invented. Let us be mindful that technology can save humanity as much as it can destroy it. Everything depends on what we do with it. So how do we restore the image of innovation? Not just by pushing it with grants, scholarships, pitches, and incubators into a valley of death that many start-ups can't get through, but by pulling it to the market by creating the need to use it. As previously mentioned: We urgently need modern and more demanding norms and standards, which impose energy and resource efficiency, circular economy and respect for biodiversity. These are all measures that would make it obvious to implement all the solutions that already exist and show the way to the next ones.

The completion of the world tour in the Breitling Orbiter 3 was really the realisation of a personal dream. I had always seen explorers doing great things and having great adventures. This was my own adventure. It was a great moment because I had finally succeeded in doing something that no one thought possible. But I also said to myself, "Now I must have a useful dream". That's how the Solar Impulse adventure was born. I wanted to fly around the world again, but totally clean, without fuel, without pollution and without CO2, just with the energy of the sun.