Solar Powered Ships
Today, by chance, Euronews heard that shipping in terms of CO2 emissions is one of the most ecological. And immediately the question arose - why power stations, automobiles and other mechanisms work on solar energy, and you can’t hear about solar powered ships. It seems to me quite logical, for example, an oil tanker or a dry cargo ship has a huge deck space that can be used as a platform for solar batteries. . Moreover, in the ocean, especially near the equator, the sun is almost always there, during bad weather you can switch to ordinary engines. To check for the presence of such ships, I rummaged a bit in the internet and found what I found: I found 3 variants of small solar-powered ships: A small ship with 60 passengers called the "Solon" (Germany):
If the video does not see the link to the source .
"The batteries are large enough to store enough energy for weekly sailing. Just like a photovoltaic generator. The cost of a solar-powered ship is equal to the cost of a diesel-powered ship, although ours can swim for about 10 hours a day. Passenger ships in New York, Hong Kong, and everywhere, they sail no more than 10-12 hours a day, ”says Thomas Krupke, head of Solon. RIA News . (August 2009)
The project of installing solar panels on the Hornblower Yachts pleasure liner ( Hornblower Yachts ) (San Francisco):
It is planned that the ships will seriously raise the "sail" and will begin to transport passengers in 2009. ( source ) August 2007)
And the latest news from Germany:
The ship, 30 meters long and 16 meters wide, has on the surface 500 square meters of solar photovoltaic panels, which provide the ship's engines with electricity. The company "Solar Planet" (Planet Solar), created the ship, which, as stated in the official statement of the company "Solar Planet, is environmentally friendly and almost silent. The vessel will be able to reach a maximum speed of 25 miles per hour and carry up to 50 people. The first water tests of the Solar Planet are scheduled for the end of March. Then the ship will be the star of the celebration of the 821th anniversary of the port of Hamburg, the second largest port in Europe after Rotterdam.
The PlanetSolar round trip is already known, the official start is scheduled for April of this year:
The video could not be copied here, so here is just a link to a page with videos . ( Source ) (February 2010)
Here are 3 projects of solar-powered ships that we managed to find, they all belong to the category of cruise ships. And only the Japanese and a half years ago launched a cargo ship on solar batteries. Here is what they write:
The world's first cargo ship, powered by solar energy, was launched in Japan in the port of the Japanese city of Kobe in the west of the country, CyberSecurity reports ...
Behind the development of the unique vessel are the companies Nippon Yusen KK and the Japanese seller of oil products Nippon Oil Corp. designed to transport cars by sea, in the base configuration a ship can transport 6,400 cars at a time. In order for a huge ship to generate a sufficient amount of electricity that drives propellers, it is equipped with 320 large solar panels with a total value of 150 million yen or $ 1, 7 million. The developers say that the construction began as soon as possible because the ship left the shipyard just before the crisis. Toyota Motor was the first commercial client to charter a ship, ITNews said.
The displacement is 60213 tons, the length is exactly 200 meters. In addition to a powerful solar generation system, which produces about 40 kilowatts of electricity, the vessel is equipped with a powerful battery system that works during idle times.
In Nippon Yusen, it is noted that according to current data, sea transport is now generating about 4% of all global greenhouse gas emissions, but this vessel is the first industrial cargo ship with zero carbon dioxide emissions, PortNews reports. ( Source ) (December 2008) it was not possible to find a photo of this ship. Here is another version of a small solar-powered ship:
If the video does not see the link to the source .
"The batteries are large enough to store enough energy for weekly sailing. Just like a photovoltaic generator. The cost of a solar-powered ship is equal to the cost of a diesel-powered ship, although ours can swim for about 10 hours a day. Passenger ships in New York, Hong Kong, and everywhere, they sail no more than 10-12 hours a day, ”says Thomas Krupke, head of Solon. RIA News . (August 2009)
The project of installing solar panels on the Hornblower Yachts pleasure liner ( Hornblower Yachts ) (San Francisco):
It is planned that the ships will seriously raise the "sail" and will begin to transport passengers in 2009. ( source ) August 2007)
And the latest news from Germany:
The ship, 30 meters long and 16 meters wide, has on the surface 500 square meters of solar photovoltaic panels, which provide the ship's engines with electricity. The company "Solar Planet" (Planet Solar), created the ship, which, as stated in the official statement of the company "Solar Planet, is environmentally friendly and almost silent. The vessel will be able to reach a maximum speed of 25 miles per hour and carry up to 50 people. The first water tests of the Solar Planet are scheduled for the end of March. Then the ship will be the star of the celebration of the 821th anniversary of the port of Hamburg, the second largest port in Europe after Rotterdam.
The PlanetSolar round trip is already known, the official start is scheduled for April of this year:
The video could not be copied here, so here is just a link to a page with videos . ( Source ) (February 2010)
Here are 3 projects of solar-powered ships that we managed to find, they all belong to the category of cruise ships. And only the Japanese and a half years ago launched a cargo ship on solar batteries. Here is what they write:
The world's first cargo ship, powered by solar energy, was launched in Japan in the port of the Japanese city of Kobe in the west of the country, CyberSecurity reports ...
Behind the development of the unique vessel are the companies Nippon Yusen KK and the Japanese seller of oil products Nippon Oil Corp. designed to transport cars by sea, in the base configuration a ship can transport 6,400 cars at a time. In order for a huge ship to generate a sufficient amount of electricity that drives propellers, it is equipped with 320 large solar panels with a total value of 150 million yen or $ 1, 7 million. The developers say that the construction began as soon as possible because the ship left the shipyard just before the crisis. Toyota Motor was the first commercial client to charter a ship, ITNews said.
The displacement is 60213 tons, the length is exactly 200 meters. In addition to a powerful solar generation system, which produces about 40 kilowatts of electricity, the vessel is equipped with a powerful battery system that works during idle times.
In Nippon Yusen, it is noted that according to current data, sea transport is now generating about 4% of all global greenhouse gas emissions, but this vessel is the first industrial cargo ship with zero carbon dioxide emissions, PortNews reports. ( Source ) (December 2008) it was not possible to find a photo of this ship. Here is another version of a small solar-powered ship:
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Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/86750/
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