Solar Balloon
Sunhope – Solar Powered Balloon
Sunhope, award-winning project by Joseph Cory and aerospace engineer Dr. Pini Gurfil is a breakthrough low-cost easily-deployable system that collects solar energy with very small environmental footprint.
Traditional solar systems require major resources: large land requirements, high initial investments, and the installation process are complicated. Sunhope avoid these barriers by building “low-cost photovoltaic arrays designed for vertical clearance rather than horizontal sprawl.” Such design has the potential to bring power to the isolated islands, desert, heavily forested landscape and the most significantly disaster and emergency situations thanks to their rapid deployment and the fact that they can be delivered over the air.
A 10 ft Sunhope balloon prices about $4,000 compared with $10,000 it will cost solar field creating the same amount of energy.
