Meet the latest way the superrich prove they’re really, totally worried about the environment: $10 million electric superyachts::Electric cars? The superrich have already moved on to electric yachts.
The first thing you notice about the boat is the curved solar paneling, which is curved
Did you see those billionaires from Hammerfell? They have curved solar panels.
Curved. Solar panels.
Yes, but is it curved?
Sufficiency is just as important as efficiency, if not more so.
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This is ultimately symbolic of how much electric transport is actually going to bring to the Solutions side of the board. The whole thing is a collective self-reassurance that no, we will never have to give up our personal cars. Cause unlike 10,000 years of ice age-surviving ancestors, we would perish under any such arrangement.
Regular sailboats have very low fuel consumption. Like 30HP motors used only when not possible to put the sails. Here it is not a sailboat, this is a luxury appartement on water. The carbon footprint will never be neutralized.
Electric boats sound like a good idea to me couldn’t wind, solar and tidal power all be combined. Making me wonder why supertanker etc can’t be doing some of that.
The issue is energy density. There’s a reason why boat tanks are ~6 times larger than a cars gas tank. That’s why they’re so expensive (plus batteries are much heavier).
