solar boat Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Fri, 24 May 2013 17:20:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 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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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/solar-power-record-setting-atlantic-crossing-planetsolar-turanor-20130524/feed/ 0 37590 Tûranor Solar Boat Has a New Mission Studying Climate Change https://www.greenoptimistic.com/planetsolars-turanor-solar-boat-has-a-new-mission-studying-climate-change-20130404/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/planetsolars-turanor-solar-boat-has-a-new-mission-studying-climate-change-20130404/#respond Thu, 04 Apr 2013 17:05:18 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=35715 What started as a proof-of-concept – PlanetSolar’s Tûranor solar boat recently circumnavigated the globe – is now setting sail again on a research mission in the Atlantic Ocean’s Gulf Stream. PlanetSolar wasn’t really sure what it was going to do with the 115ft solar boat once it had gone around the world completely on solar […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/planetsolars-turanor-solar-boat-has-a-new-mission-studying-climate-change-20130404/feed/ 0 35715 PlanetSolar: The World's Biggest Solar-Powered Multi-Hull Vessel Released https://www.greenoptimistic.com/planetsolar-solar-boat-20100301/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/planetsolar-solar-boat-20100301/#comments Mon, 01 Mar 2010 08:12:57 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=6668 The world's biggest vessel powered entirely by solar energy has been unveiled in Germany. Measuring about 31m in length, the new catamaran called PlanetSolar is able to achieve a top speed of about 25 km/h (15 knots) and can carry 50 people.

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