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Largest Solar-powered Boat

Posted by on October 1, 2010 · 1 Comment 

Laura Carrabine, Senior Editor WAGO 758 Series IPCs are managing solar energy for Tûranor PlanetSolar, the world’s largest solar-powered boat. Conceived by Raphaël Domjan, a Swiss eco-adventurer and PlanetSolar founder, Tûranor is a catamaran research vessel for solar power use. Tûranor will embark on a solar-powered 2011 worldwide tour with planned stops in San Francisco and New York City. According to PlanetSolar, the 2011 tour will be the first solar-powered circumnavigation... Read More

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Pollution-Free Yacht Powered By Solar Power Unveiled

Posted by on March 3, 2010 · Leave a Comment 

The world’s largest pollution-free yacht, the PlanetSolar, was unveiled Thursday at the HDW Shipyard in Germany. Designed by a team of international engineers, PlanetSolar is a multihull white catamaran topped by about 5,300 square feet of black photovoltaic solar panels consisting of some 38,000 of SunPower‘s next-generation cells. Each of the cells offers an efficiency of at least 22 percent–the highest-efficiency solar cells commercially available.... Read More

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