PlanetSolar Team Using Autodesk Design Software for Solar Powered Boat

Technologists are researching new ways to power everything that is powered by an engine running on fossil fuels. And now an innovative team of from Germany and Switzerland is producing the world's largest solar-powered sailboat with the help of Autodesk design software. This slidecast offers a phone interview with Raphael Domjan, CEO of Planet Solar (and skipper of the boat) and Stephan Muller, executive director of the firm building the boat.

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Science & Technology

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• Autodesk
• Autodesk Inventor
• PlanetSolar
• Planet Solar
• Solar Energy
• Solar Power

[Eltoca21]

Great looking boat. But how "green" is it really. I'm curious, where are all the materials sourced from to build it?

[squatworldwide]

no. no mast. alone the elektric engine`s have 290hp together.

and the whole deck is covert with solar pannels.

[squatworldwide]

yea is a nice boat. i work right now on this boat. its huge.

[stangoodvibes]

Yeah I'm confused. People have been sailing around the world for centuries. While solar is obviously do-able it is still too expensive and impractical to be commercially viable, whereas wind has proven to be economically viable already for centuries.

I would have thought that building new sail technology with solar as a backup would have been a better solution.

And of course, the Americans and Russians have demonstrated that nuclear propulsion is workable...

[Altinget]

Did they consider the benefits of putting a mast and ordinary sail on the Ship???

[videouzleg]

This is the real 21st century sailing method! ;D

[vatrenikrug]

pls more data...

how manny people wood carry,when it wood be start building for sale,what speed it wood go, more detail on the motors,panels etc :)