Green living: Boat powered by sunshine arriving in Miami

[mfcorey1]

BY CURTIS MORGAN
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A vessel seemingly straight out of a vintage James Bond movie will slip into Miami's Government Cut sometime around 8 a.m. Saturday.

The craft, a strange mash-up of gleaming glass arrowhead, sleek flying saucer and knife-nosed catamaran, was not designed by an evil madman plotting world domination. It's the brainchild of Raphael Domjan, a Swiss engineer and self-described ``eco-adventurer'' with a not-all-that crazy scheme to circle the world using only sunshine for fuel.


Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/11/26/1944980/boat-powered-by-sunshine-arriving.html#ixzz16SnDhpQt

[Catherina]

1. Sweet

[Lasher]

2. Delete

Posted wrong place, sorry.

[DCKit]

7. Not nearly large enough for Hugh and ALL the bunnies.

There is a smaller, two stateroom version out there (as seen on TV just yesterday) with a solar electric(6kw)/bio-diesel hybrid drive.

That said, how long until someone posts that "it'll never work", "what's the point" or "we're still doomed"?

[Lasher]

3. Great idea, here's another eco-friendly craft.

Old Ironsides is rated for 13 knots, twice the speed of this solar powered vessel.

OK, I know the linked article discussed this point adequately at the end. I just like Old Ironsides.

[ixion]

4. to be sure, it is. However, you need a full crew compliment to sail that vessel

as opposed to one or two people. Just sayin'...

[alphafemale]

5. Yeah...like you could sail to other continents and reek havok in that flimsy contraption.

pshaw

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[madokie]

6. cool

rec

[Countdown_3_2_1]

8. He needs a deck for sun bunnies to tan on...

pretty lonely sailing around the world without sun bunnies...just sayin.

[DirkGently]

9. Planet Solar is cool. I subscribed to the website, but everything they send is in French.