This ship is the largest solar-powered yacht in the world. The ship, now travels the world to break the record while campaigning for the use of renewable energy.The name of the ship was Tûranor PlanetSolar, taken from JRR Tolkien's novel Lord of the Rings, which means' sun power. "
As reported by the dailymail site, the ship started its mission of Monaco since 27 September 2010 was entirely relying on solar power.
This ship has a body length of up to 31 meters, and can carry up to 40 passengers. While its solar panels stretched to more than 500 m square. The panel should move the two electric motors.
The shape is deliberately designed to have two 'legs', to fulfill aspects of aerodynamics and hydrodynamics, so that the ship can sail at speeds up as fast as 14 knots, or about 26 km per hour.
The ship had already been visited various places such as Miami, Cancun, when held a conference on world climate, as well as the Galapagos Islands in the Pacific Ocean. Now, he was in Australia.
When the mission a success, the ship was built at a cost of U.S. $ 12.5 million, will become the first successful cruise around the earth, relying purely solar power.
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