Wednesday, December 7, 2011

The Turanor

A great new technological invention that helps the world would be Planet Solar boat. This is a yacht that has solar panels all above that yacht so that it can absorb energy from the sun. Then makes it into its own energy and it maintains itself. This is a great improvement in boating because boats and ship produce a lot of methane gases that cause global warming. The name of the boat is the Turanor, and it was built by Knierim Yacht Club in Kiel, in Germany, it is a multi-hulled vessel carrying a large array of solar photovoltaic (PV) panels. The Turanor is also the world’s largest solar boat. The boat is nearly 102 feet long, almost 50 feet wide and standing 24-1/2 feet high (31 meters by 15 meters by 7.5 meters). It can run on its stored energy in the absence of sunlight for around three days at 7.5 knots, the speed of an average oil tanker. At slower speeds it could run for up to 15 days, according to its makers.


 The yacht is sailed by two sailors the plan for the four sailors in the yacht is go around the world only using sustainable energy from the boat. The 34,000-mile journey will take the vessel across the Atlantic, the Panama Canal, the Pacific, the Indian Ocean and the Suez Canal to the Mediterranean over a scheduled 160 days. The Turanor is also the world’s largest solar boat. The challenge of this sale around the world is to chase the sun, so that they can have energy.

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