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17-May 2012

Green Articles

Around the World in 584 Days

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Solar-powered catamaran goes around the world in 584 days

I know I’ll probably get a lot of flack for saying this, but I think solar cell powered ocean transportation is almost as likely as a perpetual motion machine. MS Turanor PlanetSolar, after all their high tech geekiness, managed a circumnavigation that does indeed demonstrate what solar power is capable of achieving: going around the world at about the same rate as Kon Tiki.

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Posted: 10/May/2012 | 4 Comments

Wearing of the Green

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Couldn’t let St. Paddy’s day go by without a doff o’ the cap to the wearing of the green, via the proa Equilibre.

 

 

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Posted: 17/Mar/2012 | 1 Comments

Protei - Robotic Sailboat for Oil Spills

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Imagine a robotic, wind-powered whale that “eats” oil spills. After visiting the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in June of 2010, a young engineer named Cesar Harada, decided to leave MIT in Boston to develop just such a vessel. Protei is unmanned, autonomous, relatively inexpensive and open source hardware (anybody can use, modify and distribute its designs), making it a potentially powerful weapon in the battle to clean up the Gulf of Mexico.

Video from Motherboard TV

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Posted: 26/Nov/2011 | 2 Comments