Solarship more promising then ever, yet nobody is paying attention?

It seems that the Solarship has fallen off the radar of the mainstream media. If you go to their facebook you will find that all sorts of activity has been going on, but too few seem to be paying attention and it seems I was the only one who has reposted this playlist on facebook.

There are a few holes in the Solarship dream in that it is unlikely they will ever be able to have solar panels light enough and efficient enough to maintain powered flight in the day all day anytime soon. And should solar panels be made that are efficient enough to keep an aircraft like this airborne our energy issues should be solved at that point.

However the airframe is a wonderful platform to develop small airships for personal consumption all over the world.

Maybe what Solarship needs to do is refocus their operations on building small to midsize family airships with better VTOL capabilities and a high degree of safety features that they could sell to the general public. It would be a hard market to penetrate but likely has a better return on investment in the next 60 years, and can help generate revenue for their ultimate goal of delivering supplies to Africa.