http://www.getsolar.com/blog/sailing-around-the-world-with-solar-sunpower/3776/ Get the latest news on solar homes, solar panels & renewable energy Tue, 18 Oct 2011 07:47:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.getsolar.com/blog/sailing-around-the-world-with-solar-sunpower/3776/comment-page-1/#comment-2030 Sailing around the world with solar energy | Maritime News Fri, 26 Feb 2010 22:27:37 +0000 http://www.getsolar.com/blog/?p=3776#comment-2030 [...] (getsolar) At a shipyard in Germany today, PlanetSolar unveiled the world’s largest solar powered boat: a 30-meter long catamaran that will be powered exclusively by about 38,000 SunPower monocrystalline solar cells. Two sailors will circle the globe in a trip beginning early in 2011–this will be the first circumnavigation to be completed in an entirely solar-powered vessel of any kind. Source [...] [...] (getsolar) At a shipyard in Germany today, PlanetSolar unveiled the world’s largest solar powered boat: a 30-meter long catamaran that will be powered exclusively by about 38,000 SunPower monocrystalline solar cells. Two sailors will circle the globe in a trip beginning early in 2011–this will be the first circumnavigation to be completed in an entirely solar-powered vessel of any kind. Source [...]

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