Cruise Ship Earth's Largest Solar-powered

Panel suryanya stretched to more than 500 m square.

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 the panel suryanya 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 ships could sail with kkecepatan up as fast as 14 knots, or about 26 km per hour.

The Toranor PlanetSolar yacht arrives on its first Australian stopover Pontoon at the Riverside Centre, Brisbane, today. The company claims the yacht That will from some of the first fully solar-powered vessel to circumnavigate around the world.

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, approximately USD 107 billion, it will become the first successful cruise around the earth, relying purely solar power.


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