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Travel the world on a sunny boat
Toranor PlanetSolar-first and world's largest boat that runs entirely on solar energy - went on a trip around the world. The ship's length is 102 feet (31.09 meters) and width - 50 feet (15, 24 meters). The boat performed a stop in the Galapagos Islands, Bora Bora, New Caledonia, Panama Canal, Miami, Cancun and Cartagena.
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| 1. Ship journeyed in September 2010, departed from the pier of Monaco and has recently arrived in the Australian port city of Brisbane, where it was made this picture. |
2. German industrialist Immo Shtreer financed the construction of the vessel, having invested in the construction of about 17.5 million dollars. Name of the vessel came from the world-famous epic novel by JRR Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings" and means "power of the sun. "
3. The total area of solar panels in Turanor PlanetSolar is 537 square meters. The boat is equipped with thirty-eight thousand solar cells. The company that built the vessel, says that this is the biggest ship in the world, operating entirely on solar energy. Ship's captain told the site recently, CNN, that the battery never falls below 20 per cent of the total. "We are very pleased with how it has demonstrated a ship, " he says. "Although it is moving more slowly than anticipated, but in bad weather, it proved to be well done!"
4. Team boat are four people. The task of the vessel is to overcome the distance in the 27,000 nautical miles (about 50,004 kilometers), to prove that alternative energy sources are trustworthy and can be effectively applied in practice. In late May, the boat arrived in Australia, breaking the more than 15,000 nautical miles (priblizitelno23730 kilometers).
5. To date, battery and propulsion systems boats are in good condition, but in March the team had to return to Bora Bora because of problems with the steering gear and propeller.
