The largest solar powered boat in the world en route to Cancun

    The largest solar powered boat in the world en route to Cancun

    the Turanor Planet Solar catamaran is circumnavigating the globe (by the end of 2011), to show the potential of solar energy to the big names on the planet and to the world in general. Next stop: Cancun


    He is about to end up run over, his mother saves him

    Started more than two months ago from Monaco and powered exclusively by photovoltaic panels, the catamaran Turanor Planet Solar has landed just in these hours in the city of Miami. The goal of the team - six people in all - is to circumnavigate the globe before the end of 2011, to show the big names of the planet and the world in general the potential ofsolar power.




    The next stop, not surprisingly, will be the Mexican city of Cancun, where until December 10 one of the most important summits on the climate change of the last years. A peaceful "assault" to say, in the words of the Swiss Raphael Domjan, the father of the company: today we have the technology to change. Not tomorrow, today we can change.

    Idea, that of Domjan, behind which there is a project far from far-fetched: the Turanor catamaran is 31 meters long and 15 meters wide, making it the largest solar-powered vessel in the world. The surface of the hull is in fact almost entirely covered with ben 537 m2 of photovoltaic modules that power two propeller turbines, for one overall power of 93,5 KW (o 127 horses). At full speed, however, the batteries that store electrical energy would have one duration of about 10 hours, so the average navigation is 26,8 horses (“Too little”, say the skeptics).

    The fact is that this technology giant gives 20 million dollars, after stopping at Cancun, will restart at a time of San Francisco, then of Sidney, Then Singapore, Abu Dhabi and finally again Monaco. There are many records to beat: in addition to the one referred to by the name of the initiative - Planet Solar World Tour 2010-2011 - Turanor could become the first ever solar-powered means of transport to travel around the world, as well as the first solar-powered boat to cross the Red Sea andIndian Ocean (the Atlantic had already been "breached" in 2007 by the Solar21 catamaran).



    He believed it Yes Stroher, the official owner of the boat, who financed the project and bet on Domjan (former mountain guide and former ambulance driver, so to speak); the six members of the team believe it, including a woman, almost all with a past as a “sailor”; supporters, sponsors and partners, official and scientific believe it… the Cancun delegates? We will soon know the answer.

    Roberto Zambon

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