WaPo and many other outlets
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/self-fueling-boat-sets-off-from-paris-on-6-year-world-trip/2017/07/15/03b2ac7a-6976-11e7-94ab-5b1f0ff459df_story.html
report that a 100 foot (~30m) racing catamaran has had the mast(s) removed and instead fitted with a combo of solar cells and vertical axis wind turbines. It also makes H2 by electrolysis of sea water and can run off a hydrogen fuel cell at night.
Originally designed in 1983, the boat enjoyed a successful career in open-sea sailing races before skippers Frederic Dahirel and Victorien Erussard and a French research institute converted it into the Energy Observer project.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 16 2017, @05:50PM (1 child)
It doesn't matter because by the time this solar boat is lost at sea, Trump will have set the world on fire and we'll all be dead.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 16 2017, @06:37PM
"Lost at sea"-lost-lost or "lost at sea"-doesnt-want-to-be-found-lost?
Maybe it is their plan all along to be the pioneers of water-world?