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Swiss CODE-X Solar Luxury Yacht - Green?

by Doug Gunzelmann on June 5th, 2009

At the very least entertaining, the Code-X Yacht is touted as a uber highend and environmentally friendly motor cruiser. It is propelled by either twin solar powered electric engines, driving this razor sharp machine 9 knots through the water, or the slightly less eco-friendly twin Ilmor marine combustion engines pumping out 790hp a piece for a top speed of 80 knots. That is quite some fossil fuel burning mayhem for a company that claims to develop "products with maximum exclusivity that use renewable energy sources."

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Solar Ship Sets Sail to Save Some… uh, Gas

by Matt Embrey on September 2nd, 2008

Toyota’s newest Hybrid will weigh about 60,000 tons, have 328 solar panels and will still burn through about $45,000 of fuel in a day. It’s not the 2009 Prius, thank god, it’s a new hybrid cargo ship that Toyota plans to ship it’s smaller hybrids on. The ship is being built by Nippon Yusen KK [...]

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Czeers MK1 Solar Powered Luxury Speed Boat

by Matt Embrey on May 27th, 2008

Upgrade If you have a gas guzzling boat then you could be paying several hundred dollars at the pumps just to fill your tank once. Even if you can afford the gas, can the environment? Soon you’ll be able to leave the gas at the dock in your solar powered boat. The Czeers MK1 [...]

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Wooden Boats Made from Cafeteria Trash

by Matt Embrey on April 8th, 2008

INFO What becomes of all those disposable chopsticks after they pinch their last egg roll? They end up floating Shuhei Ogawara in Lake Inawahiro, at least that is how 7382 of them ended up. Ogawara, a former city employee in the Fukushima prefecture town of Koriyama got fed up watching chopsticks, perfectly good wood, go to [...]

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