Another practical solar-powered vehicle
I saw this profiled on the Discovery Channel this week. The boat looks, um, odd, but saved tons of fuel.
The boat, conspicuously named Sun21, is the first of its eco-friendly kind to attempt the journey. The 46-foot catamaran made the trip — from the Canary Islands to the Bahamas — in just under a month, and according to MW-Line, the operating costs are 20 to 45 times lower than traditional motorboats. Source: Solar-powered Swiss boat crosses the Atlantic – Engadget
So if we think about a ship with solar power plus a biddies-powered engine, you could make a huge dent in the consumption of fuel by maritime shipping. Yes, we have to do something and fast and it’s going to take all of us working together with innovative and radical ideas to pull it off.
Yep this is one of them.
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