World's largest solar-powered boat arrives amid COP16

CANCUN, Mexico - Turanor PlanetSolar, the world's largest solar-powered boat, is docked on Dec. 8, 2010, in Cancun, Mexico. The environmentally-friendly boat, owned by Immo Stroeher of Germany, made a port call where a U.N. climate change conference, known as COP16, was taking place, in the middle of its voyage around the world. (Kyodo)

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