Sentence examples for solar boat from inspiring English sources

"With our solar boat we rescued a regular boat," he said.

Heka was believed to accompany Re in his solar boat on its daily trip across the heavens; it could also be given to and used by common men.

After World War II, Egyptomania virtually disappeared, although the 1954 discovery of the Giza solar boat inspired Howard Hawks's The Land of the Pharaohs (1955), and mummies remained popular in movies and pulp fiction.

"It was a model placed in the tomb as was a solar boat, not because it used solar power in any way, but because it was used by the sun god".

Born in Geneva and raised in Germany, Christoph completed his diploma in industrial design in 1995 in Stuttgart, where he designed and built his first solar boat as his final project.

The dead pharaoh flies up to heaven to join the sun-god Re, in his solar boat, on his unceasing voyage across the sky, or he joins the circumpolar stars, known as the "Imperishable Ones," or he ascends a ladder to join the gods in heaven.

Usually, solar boats include auxiliary source of energy to meet unsatisfied power demand during cloudy and partially cloudy days.

In countries, where waterways play a major role in the national transportation systems, solar boats could be a potential mode of low-cost transportation.

A team led by the Dutch renewable energy company Ecofys has designed and built the first Dutch fuel cell boat, which participated in the recent Frisian Nuon Solar Challenge, a race for solar boats.

Thus, solar energy can be considered as one of the alternate source of energy which could be used to drive solar boats as well [14, 15, 16, 17, 18].

And the world's largest solar-powered boat, the Turanor Planet Solar, not only circumnavigated the globe in 2012, it also made the fastest solar-powered crossing of the Atlantic in May this year.