Adventure cruise company Hurtigruten Norway today revealed plans for a zero-emissions electric cruise ship with retractable sails covered in solar panels, which is due to set sail in 2030.

Solar sails represent one of the most elegant concepts in space exploration: using sunlight itself to propel spacecraft ...

Sustainability; Zero-emission cruise ship with retractable solar sails set to launch in 2030 Sea Zero will be "the world's most energy efficient cruise ship" and feature AI manoeuvring ...

A ‘solar sail’ sounds like something out of a sci-fi book, but NASA is making it a reality. Over the last two decades, Les Johnson and his team of engineers have quietly been pushing NASA into ...

The 443-foot-long ship is also being designed to save as much energy as possible. The shape is streamlined to make it aerodynamic. A coating on the hull will help keep barnacles or other organisms ...

The advantages are numerous: by acting like a sailing ship in space, a solar sail-powered spacecraft would be relatively simple in its construction and wouldn't rely on heavy and costly propellants.

Adventure cruise company Hurtigruten Norway today revealed plans for a zero-emissions electric cruise ship with retractable sails covered in solar panels, which is due to set sail in 2030. The ...

Adventure cruise company Hurtigruten Norway today revealed plans for a zero-emissions electric cruise ship with retractable sails covered in solar panels, which is due to set sail in 2030.

Adventure cruise company Hurtigruten Norway today revealed plans for a zero-emissions electric cruise ship with retractable sails covered in solar panels, which is due to set sail in 2030. The ...