Solar airship blimp delivers Medicine to remote Africa

Post date: Jan 15, 2013 8:55:25 AM

AFRICA - DEVELOPING WORLD - GREEN SOLUTIONS

Image Credit: Solar Ship

Medicine-laden Solar Ship to float over Africa, delivering the goods

Solar Ship, is a solar-powered blimp that's meant to deliver medicine to rural parts of Africa.

Outside of the helium that floats it, the Solar Ship is only Solar powered for ever.

Solar Ship only needs a space about the size of a soccer field to takeoff and land

olar Ship. The cost of the craft is reasonable enough, $1 million outright,

or a $30 thousand a month lease. That compares favorably for the upwards of $5 million

cost of a traditional bush plane, but the price of helium has skyrocketed lately.

Solar Ship, a Canadian firm, solarship.org

has already secured funding for their first mission, flying a medicine laden blimp

Solar ship Africa

For the firm's African mission, they've started an Indiegogo to raise $1 million.