Solar boat

We have been on a number of day trips recently. One of which took us on a trip on a Solar powered Boat.

The trip on the boat was only an hour and was part of the overall day trip. The boat took us around the great reservoir that services Benidorm and was not exciting but quite and picturesque.

The boat itself held about 60 people and was totally powered by the solar panels you can see on the top picture.

  I tried to get the details of the output of the solar panels in this picture, however, as you can see I failed. According to Mr Fixit, who was with us that day, each panel was pushing out enough electricity to power a good sized kettle and as they were over 50 panels on the boat more than enough power for the boat.

Talking to the boat keeper it did work on non cloudy days, however, on rainy overcast days it struggled a bit. But lucky for him not many rainy days in Spain.