Velux 5 Oceans at the heart of sustainable power

2:29 PM Thu 14 Apr 2011 GMT

'Operon Racing&rsquo;s wind generator - Velux 5 Oceans' Ainhoa Sanchez

Velux 5 Oceans - With the topic for ocean sprint four sustainability award set as 'power', we look at the lengths the Velux 5 Oceans racers go to in order to manage their consumption sustainably while racing the world's oceans. The Eco 60s competing in the Velux 5 Oceans boast four sources of power: the engine, wind generators, solar panels and hydro-generators. However, with a strong emphasis on sustainability in this edition of the Velux 5 Oceans, our skippers go to great lengths to rely as much as they can on wind and solar power as sustainable forms of producing ...

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