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posted by martyb on Sunday July 16 2017, @04:36PM   Printer-friendly
from the interesting-but-will-it-pay-back? dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 16 2017, @05:50PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 16 2017, @05:50PM (#539951)

    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

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 16 2017, @06:37PM (#539962)

    by the time this solar boat is lost at sea, Trump will have set the world on fire and we'll all be dead.

    "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?