PlanetSolar DeepWater Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Tue, 18 Mar 2014 14:48:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 MS Türanor PlanetSolar Planning 2014 Solar-Powered Expedition https://www.greenoptimistic.com/ms-turanor-planetsolar-planning-2014-solar-powered-expedition-20140318/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/ms-turanor-planetsolar-planning-2014-solar-powered-expedition-20140318/#respond Tue, 18 Mar 2014 14:48:17 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=46529 Over the winter, docked at the Cité de la Voile Eric Tabarly, in Lorient, France, the MS Türanor PlanetSolar solar-powered catamaran has been retrofitting for its new expedition in 2014. The MS Türanor PlanetSolar spent the 2013 season on two very important missions, but it might be hard to decide which was the more important […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/ms-turanor-planetsolar-planning-2014-solar-powered-expedition-20140318/feed/ 0 46529 Solar Powered PlanetSolar Tûranor Sets New Record https://www.greenoptimistic.com/solar-power-record-setting-atlantic-crossing-planetsolar-turanor-20130524/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/solar-power-record-setting-atlantic-crossing-planetsolar-turanor-20130524/#respond Fri, 24 May 2013 17:20:18 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=37590 Originally commissioned in 2009, the PlanetSolar Tûranor was designed to see how successful a boat powered entirely by solar power would perform. After a successful circumnavigation of the globe in 2012, the PlanetSolar Tûranor spent a few months in port getting retrofitted with more efficient motors and solar power control systems. After the circumnavigation in […]

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