not mention that lets just say the fuel cost alone was set @ an $2.50 a gallon ( U.S.) the fuel alone was 192,500 U.S. dollars (and I am quite sure that they paid alot more for it that two dollars and fifty cents) Just think of what that money could have been used for ...... but in the long run it is always easier to spend another persons money.
enviro friendly or not that is still a cool boat that I wouldnt mind having. And as far as an earth race for green people they are not very smart in stating that 77,000 + or - of gallons was used I mean why didnt they use solar power or a sail boat like the beautiful Hydroptere and make the sails out of some flexable solar panels to chrage some batteries for power when there wasn't any wind I mean really that bio diesel could have been used for something far more important. Still cool boat tho
question? what types of material went in to the creation of this "super boat" and what type of use does it serve? further more what carbon foot print did it leave IE: creation, development, production, transportation, storage and lets not forget disposal...
hydraulic fluids, oils, coolants, electronics, wiring, paints, plastics, cost, etc... you cant tell nor convince anyone this as made completely of bio diesel? there is a foot print, everything makes one. What print did this leave??
I see...using this circular logic.... a forest fire is carbon neutral?
One other note is the actual machine itself. Speaking as a technical engineer, it is a beautiful craft BTW. 'Footprint', including the processes of morphing the immensely complex total chain of compounds (mined and chemically altered molecular structures) into an actual working piece of equipment. To be 'Neutral', I would assume it ..'Just Happens'? Hmmmmm interesting concept. Sort of like Evolution?
@0HippyHunter0 Well it was 77,000 gallons of fuel.... 100% Bio Diesel to be exact. 0%carbon foot print. meaning no contamination, your car on the way to work everyday contaminates more in a day than we did in 60....
@ixelr84you HA! Brilliant. There was no energy used in making that boat? That boat is made out of 100% 'environmentally friendly' components?
Further, 77,000 GALLONS OF FUEL!?!??! WHAT A WASTE! !!! I want you to think about this for a second: if you'd used that 77k of fuel to improve this world, for instance driving a semi around the country delivering goods, you could have made the world better. Instead you wasted it driving across the ocean. Not only that, how much food was that?
@ixelr84you You don't miss many meals, how many people could have had dinner on that much crop space had you not used it on you 'ultra important' trip to no where and back? How much energy was used making that much fuel? Transporting it? You think SMALL. Your footprint is enormous.
Extremely wasteful.....EXTREME hypocrites. I hope the whalers get you uncaring sons-a-bitches next time.
@0HippyHunter0 Listen here. The fuel that they used was completley 100% Environmentally friendly. It had 0 emmisions and one of your farts probably did more damage to the eco-system than that boat did in 60 days. And I know what elitism is. I am not a retard, and the money given to the Earthrace people was in the form of donations. So you can't talk. You are trying to trump yourself compared to anyone else that has commented on this video. IT IS CALLED ELITISM.
@AeroInfo56 I understand what you're trying to say, but you have to realize you are wrong. Biodiesel is not a 0 emission product. Somebody has to grow the soy beans from which it was produced. Then they have to process it. Then they have to transport it. You think they carried 77,000 gallons of biodiesel on this little boat? No. They hauled it from the other side of the world. Farts "do damage ot the ecosystem"? Do you hear yourself?
@AeroInfo56 Not only that, if they would have used that 77,000 gallons of biodisel0 to offset diesel used in, say, farming they could have made a beneficial impact on Earth, instead they used it to do something pointless. I don't care where the money came from. I did talk, and I'm right. I know what it's called, I pointed it out. What you're trying to do is make Earthrace Ok, because if you support them you are somehow superior to others. You aren't.
@ixelr84you What a load of bullshit. Your little bio diesel boat there with its 77000 gallons emitted more CO2 than all my cars and bikes put together will in my lifetime.
@ixelr84you 0% carbon footprint?!!! Aparently you need to educate yourself on the production of bio diesel. Think about how much oil based fuel is used just to grow and harvest the "bio" part of the fuel compounded by the energy used to turn it into burnable fuel then get back to me.
@ixelr84you Let me get this straight - burning 77,000 gallons of biodeisel makes no pollution at all? I'm not talking about `carbon footprint' here, I'm curious to know how many pollutants are coming out the exhausts.
@xbfalcon351coupe You are correct, burning any hydrocarbon releases carbon into the air, but the lie of it is the process of creating biodeisel creates waste and uses up energy. It is a shell game of trading one waste for another. The other lie is agriculture, today's modern agriculture is the art of turning oil into food. How much fuel was used to farm the materials for that biodiesel?
@CatPilot the other one is electric cars and hybrids - sure, they may be green once you're driving one down the road, but the environmental damage making the thing is huge. The other less touted `waste' is all the old cars that get scrapped so that people can be smug about buying a hybrid in the 1st place - by the time you figure in scrapping the old car and producing the new one, you're not looking too green at all - finally, add in the cost/pollution of making the electricity to recharge it..
@xbfalcon351coupe What are you talking about? The main addition to a hybrid vehicle is a battery and producing batteries is not any more damaging to the environment than producing anything else.
If you're talking about pure EVs that's a whole different story. Not only are they MUCH more efficient, but they also require little to no maintenance which further reduced their environmental impact.
@idontcare80 Do some research, buddy. Producing those batteries is hugely toxic - the nickel, for example, is so toxic that 'US law won't allow it to be processed there - it needs to be shipped to India or Japan - all thaty transportation is environmentally damaging too (do you think the boats, trucks and trains moving it are electric or hybrid? Of course not) Those batteries will get replaced a few times during the life of the vehicle too, adding to waste (the old batteries need disposing too
@xbfalcon351coupe EVs don't use nickel in their batteries. The patent for the nickel–metal hydride battery is held by Chevron and they wont allow the battery to be used in that kind of application for obvious reasons.
Cars are shipped from Japan anyway.
The batteries last over 100,000 miles and much of a lithium-ion battery can be recycled. The parts of the battery that can't be recycled can be safely disposed of in a land fill.
Who cares, EV are boring and slow! And fuck the polution and foot print, as in seriously fuck that. I only have one shot at this life and frankly I could care LESS what happens to Earth AFTER I die because I will be DEAD! 820whp and 620trq daily driven turbocharged car and my Ducati for the weekend. Life is already hard enough.
I might be wortheless piece of shit, but I am one VERY HAPPY worthless piece of shit, this Earth is going to shit anyways so who cares how fast it gets there. Oh and and you're wrong, MOST of us WANT to live like this, that's why we do it you faggot. :) Cheers.
@allweareisdust I don't understand the point of your comment, you're just gloating about how fucked up you are. Fuck, man. Do you just get up every morning, look in the mirror and say to yourself, "Yeah, I'm a fucking parasite, the scum of the Earth! That makes me so happy!" Sick fuck.
The problem here is not what you want, the problem here is that your ignorant as shit. There is no reason you can't do many of the things you do AND live happily. You only believe that because you're ignorant.
In the US, it's about 3 to 5 times more expensive to drive on gas than it is to drive on electricity.
It's estimated that it takes about 7.5 kilowatt-hours of electricity to refine a single gallon of gas. That means that a Nissan Leaf can go 22 miles on the same amount of electricity that it takes to MAKE a gallon of gas!
@idontcare80 yep - and again, where does the electricity come from? Oh, thats right, out the wall socket.... it still has to come from somewhere - like a coal or gas fired power station...
@xbfalcon351coupe WTF are you talking about? Driving a car that gets 22 mpg uses the SAME AMOUNT OF ELECTRICITY AS EV! AND it also burns gasoline. Moron.
@idontcare80 what????? driving a car that gets 22 mpg uses the SAME amount of electricity as an EV car????? So, one car that does NOT have an electric motor will use the same ELECTRICITY as one that does? what the fuck are you smoking? and you call ME a moron?? Dude, you are making absolutely no sense at all.
@xbfalcon351coupe Yes, it takes 7.5 kilowatt-hours of electricity to refine every gallon of gas. An EV can drive 22 miles on that same 7.5 kilowatt-hours!
yeh, whatever you reckon - oh, just had a look at your channel to see what kind of electric car you drive - none, apparently - its all stuff about VTEC and turbo's etc. Mate, in the real world I drive a 6 litre V8 but on LPG (propane to US readers) - if you're sooo big on electric cars why don't you go buy one? A bit hypocritical of you, if you ask me....
@xbfalcon351coupe I'm a student and my income is currently well below the poverty line, so I don't own a car right now. It's likely that the next car that I own will be an EV.
I do love fast cars and I'd like to have something quick for the weekends and an EV for a daily driver.
We call propane LPG here too and that's great that you're willing to drive something cleaner than a gasoline powered car. Natural gas vehicles are commonly offered here in the US, but no one buys them.
@idontcare80 LPG cars are very common here (Australia) and so there are heaps of filling stations too - CNG (natural gas) is really only just starting off here - some of the buses use it but not much else - oh, you'd like this - we have buses here called `Tindo' which are all electric...(well, we have at least 1 anyway, not sure if they are getting more - apparently the 1st full electric bus or maybe 1st solar - there's something to that effect written on it..)
One major problem: the electrical grid has inadequate capacity to provide all of the transportation energy needs along with the existing load. A wholesale transition to EV will/would require a huge investment in electrical infrastructure. This is a real cost in terms of "environmental impact". It may be more environmentally effective to continue using decentralized transportation energy generation possible still fuel onboard. Many other ideas are also worth trying.
@vibratingstring Two things to consider: 1) Gasoline production already uses a considerable amount of electricity. 2) EVs will mostly be charged at night, when demand is low.
The Nissan Leaf can drive for 22 miles on the same amount of electricity as it takes to refine a single gallon of gas. In other words: If you were to replace one car that used one gallon of gas to drive 22 miles with an EV, there would be no additional electricity requirement.
@idontcare80 And as for EV's being non polluting, what do you think they run on??? Do you think that electricity comes at no cost? Maybe the EV owner can be smug driving down the road, but somewhere a power station is producing that electricity - not many are solar or wind driven either - most are coal or gas fired. Mate, you really should research more about these cars - they are NOT as green as you might think.
@xbfalcon351coupe Even if an EV is charged entirely by an electrical grid that is powered by a coal burning power plant, it's STILL cleaner than a ICE powered vehicle. The electricity is much cheaper per mile than gas.
It takes a considerable amount of electricity to produce every gallon of gas. Gasoline also has to be transported by a truck to a gas station.
EVs can be charged by ANYTHING; Coal, nuclear, solar, wind, hydro, ocean waves, anything! No other vehicle can claim that.
Explain to me how burning biodiesel is no contamination? It is still producing carcinogenic compounds and soot etc.
Furthermore the "0 carbon footprint" claim is also bogus, because by burning plant material, you have taken the plant material out of the biomass--disrupted the natural nutrient cycle.
@AeroInfo56 It doens't matter what it is. They wasted, by their own admission, 77,000 gallons of fuel. That 77,000 could have offset the fuel used in production somewhere else, instead it was used in a pointless excusrion to prove nothing. How environmentally friendly is that? The fact is this: they don't care about the environment, they care about being better than others. It's called elitism.
this boat shall use the motor power rather than using usual turbine in order to accelerate faster.. like the XSR48.. the best & fastest boat ive seen in my entire life..
Then will appear on TV that some UFOs have been sighted sailors at sea .... and this guy will be scratching their newly raised buttocks while stretching the legs a bit on the high seas jejejejeje
@JRBeaman I think it was fitting- a symbol of the hypocritical enviro-terrorists goes down in the same way their failed, hateful ideas go down: with everyone wondering 'what was the point of that?'
I wonder what investing $1,000,000 into a fresh water system could have done for an African villiage. And you could have ran it on the 77K gallons of fuel you wasted doing....well...nothing.
@idontcare80 You are absolutely right, but those advances aren't being made by Greenpeace or Al Gore. Those advances are coming from GE or 3M. And, they are enviro-terrorists. Their entire game plan is to sabotage somebody elses wellbeing so they can achieve their emotional needs. That is as terrorist as it gets. Is killing whales and dolphins wrong? As wrong as killing cows and pigs.
yes it sunk a day after being rammed b the Japanese whaling fleet, 1 injury (3 broken ribs to a camera man) the crew was rescued by a another Sea Shepherd ship the "Bob Barker"
@fraserdegolfer in the 6th episode of whale wars, it was rammed by a whaling vessel and the sea shepards attempted to tow it but ended up just about filling up overnight
×Australian ○AustKorean This incident made me find AustKorean being also lacking in common decency such as Korean! And there seems to be some AustKorean in Europe! lol Hey AustKorean! GET ANGRY!!! GET MAD SUCH AS KOREAN!!! We can defeat you easily!!! Actually we Japanese tend to respect others Actually we Japanese tend to be afraid of others. But we DON'T BE AFRAID of those who are like Korean at all!!! COME ON!!! lol lol lol 来いよオラ！！！！！！
Yes, and now it has joined Sea Shepherd to stop the selfish Japanese pigs who are raping the Southern Oceans of our precious whales. Sink the Japanese whalers Captain Paul Watson. Sink the bastards. With Earthrace--MUCH will be accomplished.
Its funny how when ever you mention saving the whales, dolphins etc instantly people call them hippies. So that would make everyone else?
marcuelcajon 2 weeks ago
not mention that lets just say the fuel cost alone was set @ an $2.50 a gallon ( U.S.) the fuel alone was 192,500 U.S. dollars (and I am quite sure that they paid alot more for it that two dollars and fifty cents) Just think of what that money could have been used for ...... but in the long run it is always easier to spend another persons money.
bearcoldheart 1 month ago
enviro friendly or not that is still a cool boat that I wouldnt mind having. And as far as an earth race for green people they are not very smart in stating that 77,000 + or - of gallons was used I mean why didnt they use solar power or a sail boat like the beautiful Hydroptere and make the sails out of some flexable solar panels to chrage some batteries for power when there wasn't any wind I mean really that bio diesel could have been used for something far more important. Still cool boat tho
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question? what types of material went in to the creation of this "super boat" and what type of use does it serve? further more what carbon foot print did it leave IE: creation, development, production, transportation, storage and lets not forget disposal...
hydraulic fluids, oils, coolants, electronics, wiring, paints, plastics, cost, etc... you cant tell nor convince anyone this as made completely of bio diesel? there is a foot print, everything makes one. What print did this leave??
theend107 1 month ago
I wasn't aware that this boat was being used by anti-whaling activists, I thought that they just did some pointless race around the world.
More power to these guys, we need more people speaking out against whaling.
idontcare80 4 months ago
I see...using this circular logic.... a forest fire is carbon neutral?
One other note is the actual machine itself. Speaking as a technical engineer, it is a beautiful craft BTW. 'Footprint', including the processes of morphing the immensely complex total chain of compounds (mined and chemically altered molecular structures) into an actual working piece of equipment. To be 'Neutral', I would assume it ..'Just Happens'? Hmmmmm interesting concept. Sort of like Evolution?
Blogengezer 4 months ago
@starbrighter They do have one called godzilla now.
xxxxBunnyraptorxxxx 4 months ago
what an ugly boat
bondophobic 5 months ago
@0HippyHunter0
cows and pigs are bred for food.
cartousse 5 months ago
That boat is nothing but an extension of Peter Buffoons ego.
Hopefully his ego went down with it.
jonnyzz139 5 months ago
Why is it ok the for 'green' people to waste the gas necessary to race around the world, but not for everyone else to drive to work?
That was probably tens of thousands of gallons.
0HippyHunter0 5 months ago 31
@0HippyHunter0 Well it was 77,000 gallons of fuel.... 100% Bio Diesel to be exact. 0%carbon foot print. meaning no contamination, your car on the way to work everyday contaminates more in a day than we did in 60....
ixelr84you 5 months ago
@ixelr84you HA! Brilliant. There was no energy used in making that boat? That boat is made out of 100% 'environmentally friendly' components?
Further, 77,000 GALLONS OF FUEL!?!??! WHAT A WASTE! !!! I want you to think about this for a second: if you'd used that 77k of fuel to improve this world, for instance driving a semi around the country delivering goods, you could have made the world better. Instead you wasted it driving across the ocean. Not only that, how much food was that?
0HippyHunter0 5 months ago 3
@ixelr84you You don't miss many meals, how many people could have had dinner on that much crop space had you not used it on you 'ultra important' trip to no where and back? How much energy was used making that much fuel? Transporting it? You think SMALL. Your footprint is enormous.
Extremely wasteful.....EXTREME hypocrites. I hope the whalers get you uncaring sons-a-bitches next time.
0HippyHunter0 5 months ago
@0HippyHunter0 Listen here. The fuel that they used was completley 100% Environmentally friendly. It had 0 emmisions and one of your farts probably did more damage to the eco-system than that boat did in 60 days. And I know what elitism is. I am not a retard, and the money given to the Earthrace people was in the form of donations. So you can't talk. You are trying to trump yourself compared to anyone else that has commented on this video. IT IS CALLED ELITISM.
AeroInfo56 2 months ago
@AeroInfo56 I understand what you're trying to say, but you have to realize you are wrong. Biodiesel is not a 0 emission product. Somebody has to grow the soy beans from which it was produced. Then they have to process it. Then they have to transport it. You think they carried 77,000 gallons of biodiesel on this little boat? No. They hauled it from the other side of the world. Farts "do damage ot the ecosystem"? Do you hear yourself?
0HippyHunter0 2 months ago 14
@AeroInfo56 Not only that, if they would have used that 77,000 gallons of biodisel0 to offset diesel used in, say, farming they could have made a beneficial impact on Earth, instead they used it to do something pointless. I don't care where the money came from. I did talk, and I'm right. I know what it's called, I pointed it out. What you're trying to do is make Earthrace Ok, because if you support them you are somehow superior to others. You aren't.
0HippyHunter0 2 months ago
@0HippyHunter0 yes and if they have killed themselves they would have spared some food and oxy.. boy u r stupid Aeroinfo.. grow up ..grow some hair..
DlAlYlVlilD 2 months ago
@DlAlYlVlilD Are you trying to make a coherent argument?
0HippyHunter0 2 months ago
@ixelr84you Bio Diesel is not carbon free.
sickpuppy42 5 months ago 2
@ixelr84you What a load of bullshit. Your little bio diesel boat there with its 77000 gallons emitted more CO2 than all my cars and bikes put together will in my lifetime.
aluisious 5 months ago
@aluisious Bio fuels are close to carbon neutral because the plants used to make the fuel remove CO2 from the atmosphere while they are growing.
idontcare80 5 months ago
@ixelr84you 0% carbon footprint?!!! Aparently you need to educate yourself on the production of bio diesel. Think about how much oil based fuel is used just to grow and harvest the "bio" part of the fuel compounded by the energy used to turn it into burnable fuel then get back to me.
killiansredale 4 months ago
@ixelr84you Let me get this straight - burning 77,000 gallons of biodeisel makes no pollution at all? I'm not talking about `carbon footprint' here, I'm curious to know how many pollutants are coming out the exhausts.
xbfalcon351coupe 4 months ago 3
@xbfalcon351coupe You are correct, burning any hydrocarbon releases carbon into the air, but the lie of it is the process of creating biodeisel creates waste and uses up energy. It is a shell game of trading one waste for another. The other lie is agriculture, today's modern agriculture is the art of turning oil into food. How much fuel was used to farm the materials for that biodiesel?
CatPilot 4 months ago
@CatPilot the other one is electric cars and hybrids - sure, they may be green once you're driving one down the road, but the environmental damage making the thing is huge. The other less touted `waste' is all the old cars that get scrapped so that people can be smug about buying a hybrid in the 1st place - by the time you figure in scrapping the old car and producing the new one, you're not looking too green at all - finally, add in the cost/pollution of making the electricity to recharge it..
xbfalcon351coupe 4 months ago
@xbfalcon351coupe What are you talking about? The main addition to a hybrid vehicle is a battery and producing batteries is not any more damaging to the environment than producing anything else.
If you're talking about pure EVs that's a whole different story. Not only are they MUCH more efficient, but they also require little to no maintenance which further reduced their environmental impact.
idontcare80 4 months ago
@idontcare80 Do some research, buddy. Producing those batteries is hugely toxic - the nickel, for example, is so toxic that 'US law won't allow it to be processed there - it needs to be shipped to India or Japan - all thaty transportation is environmentally damaging too (do you think the boats, trucks and trains moving it are electric or hybrid? Of course not) Those batteries will get replaced a few times during the life of the vehicle too, adding to waste (the old batteries need disposing too
xbfalcon351coupe 4 months ago
@xbfalcon351coupe EVs don't use nickel in their batteries. The patent for the nickel–metal hydride battery is held by Chevron and they wont allow the battery to be used in that kind of application for obvious reasons.
Cars are shipped from Japan anyway.
The batteries last over 100,000 miles and much of a lithium-ion battery can be recycled. The parts of the battery that can't be recycled can be safely disposed of in a land fill.
idontcare80 4 months ago
@idontcare80
Who cares, EV are boring and slow! And fuck the polution and foot print, as in seriously fuck that. I only have one shot at this life and frankly I could care LESS what happens to Earth AFTER I die because I will be DEAD! 820whp and 620trq daily driven turbocharged car and my Ducati for the weekend. Life is already hard enough.
allweareisdust 4 months ago
@allweareisdust Yeah well, not everyone wants to live their lives like a selfish parasite, you worthless piece of shit.
idontcare80 4 months ago
@idontcare80
I might be wortheless piece of shit, but I am one VERY HAPPY worthless piece of shit, this Earth is going to shit anyways so who cares how fast it gets there. Oh and and you're wrong, MOST of us WANT to live like this, that's why we do it you faggot. :) Cheers.
allweareisdust 3 months ago
@allweareisdust I don't understand the point of your comment, you're just gloating about how fucked up you are. Fuck, man. Do you just get up every morning, look in the mirror and say to yourself, "Yeah, I'm a fucking parasite, the scum of the Earth! That makes me so happy!" Sick fuck.
The problem here is not what you want, the problem here is that your ignorant as shit. There is no reason you can't do many of the things you do AND live happily. You only believe that because you're ignorant.
idontcare80 3 months ago
@allweareisdust BTW, I said not everyone wants to live like you. I know most people are as you are. That doesn't change what you are.
idontcare80 3 months ago
@xbfalcon351coupe Even more fun facts!
In the US, it's about 3 to 5 times more expensive to drive on gas than it is to drive on electricity.
It's estimated that it takes about 7.5 kilowatt-hours of electricity to refine a single gallon of gas. That means that a Nissan Leaf can go 22 miles on the same amount of electricity that it takes to MAKE a gallon of gas!
idontcare80 4 months ago
@idontcare80 yep - and again, where does the electricity come from? Oh, thats right, out the wall socket.... it still has to come from somewhere - like a coal or gas fired power station...
xbfalcon351coupe 4 months ago
@xbfalcon351coupe WTF are you talking about? Driving a car that gets 22 mpg uses the SAME AMOUNT OF ELECTRICITY AS EV! AND it also burns gasoline. Moron.
idontcare80 4 months ago
@idontcare80 what????? driving a car that gets 22 mpg uses the SAME amount of electricity as an EV car????? So, one car that does NOT have an electric motor will use the same ELECTRICITY as one that does? what the fuck are you smoking? and you call ME a moron?? Dude, you are making absolutely no sense at all.
xbfalcon351coupe 4 months ago
@xbfalcon351coupe Yes, it takes 7.5 kilowatt-hours of electricity to refine every gallon of gas. An EV can drive 22 miles on that same 7.5 kilowatt-hours!
idontcare80 4 months ago
yeh, whatever you reckon - oh, just had a look at your channel to see what kind of electric car you drive - none, apparently - its all stuff about VTEC and turbo's etc. Mate, in the real world I drive a 6 litre V8 but on LPG (propane to US readers) - if you're sooo big on electric cars why don't you go buy one? A bit hypocritical of you, if you ask me....
xbfalcon351coupe 4 months ago
@xbfalcon351coupe I'm a student and my income is currently well below the poverty line, so I don't own a car right now. It's likely that the next car that I own will be an EV.
I do love fast cars and I'd like to have something quick for the weekends and an EV for a daily driver.
We call propane LPG here too and that's great that you're willing to drive something cleaner than a gasoline powered car. Natural gas vehicles are commonly offered here in the US, but no one buys them.
idontcare80 4 months ago
@idontcare80 LPG cars are very common here (Australia) and so there are heaps of filling stations too - CNG (natural gas) is really only just starting off here - some of the buses use it but not much else - oh, you'd like this - we have buses here called `Tindo' which are all electric...(well, we have at least 1 anyway, not sure if they are getting more - apparently the 1st full electric bus or maybe 1st solar - there's something to that effect written on it..)
xbfalcon351coupe 4 months ago
@idontcare80
One major problem: the electrical grid has inadequate capacity to provide all of the transportation energy needs along with the existing load. A wholesale transition to EV will/would require a huge investment in electrical infrastructure. This is a real cost in terms of "environmental impact". It may be more environmentally effective to continue using decentralized transportation energy generation possible still fuel onboard. Many other ideas are also worth trying.
vibratingstring 3 days ago
@vibratingstring Two things to consider: 1) Gasoline production already uses a considerable amount of electricity. 2) EVs will mostly be charged at night, when demand is low.
The Nissan Leaf can drive for 22 miles on the same amount of electricity as it takes to refine a single gallon of gas. In other words: If you were to replace one car that used one gallon of gas to drive 22 miles with an EV, there would be no additional electricity requirement.
idontcare80 3 days ago
@idontcare80 And as for EV's being non polluting, what do you think they run on??? Do you think that electricity comes at no cost? Maybe the EV owner can be smug driving down the road, but somewhere a power station is producing that electricity - not many are solar or wind driven either - most are coal or gas fired. Mate, you really should research more about these cars - they are NOT as green as you might think.
xbfalcon351coupe 4 months ago
@xbfalcon351coupe Even if an EV is charged entirely by an electrical grid that is powered by a coal burning power plant, it's STILL cleaner than a ICE powered vehicle. The electricity is much cheaper per mile than gas.
It takes a considerable amount of electricity to produce every gallon of gas. Gasoline also has to be transported by a truck to a gas station.
EVs can be charged by ANYTHING; Coal, nuclear, solar, wind, hydro, ocean waves, anything! No other vehicle can claim that.
idontcare80 4 months ago
@xbfalcon351coupe Oh, and a couple more things. OIL is shipped around the world on huge ships AND sometimes those ships spill their cargo everywhere.
EVs require very little maintenance, no filter changes, no coolant changes (they don't require the use of TOXIC coolant at all) and no oil changes.
idontcare80 4 months ago
@ixelr84you You must be the dumbest person on earth to believe that using 77,000 gallons of 100% Bio Diesel fuel has a 0% carbon foot print.
Ignorance is bliss.
tegra1 1 month ago
@ixelr84you
Explain to me how burning biodiesel is no contamination? It is still producing carcinogenic compounds and soot etc.
Furthermore the "0 carbon footprint" claim is also bogus, because by burning plant material, you have taken the plant material out of the biomass--disrupted the natural nutrient cycle.
Biodiesel is bullshit and everybody knows it.
vibratingstring 3 days ago
@0HippyHunter0 It was Bio-Diesel
AeroInfo56 2 months ago
@AeroInfo56 It doens't matter what it is. They wasted, by their own admission, 77,000 gallons of fuel. That 77,000 could have offset the fuel used in production somewhere else, instead it was used in a pointless excusrion to prove nothing. How environmentally friendly is that? The fact is this: they don't care about the environment, they care about being better than others. It's called elitism.
0HippyHunter0 2 months ago
this boat shall use the motor power rather than using usual turbine in order to accelerate faster.. like the XSR48.. the best & fastest boat ive seen in my entire life..
Zelfontial 8 months ago
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Zelfontial 8 months ago
@starbrighter its call gojira
50caliberish 9 months ago
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Maybe the boat should take a bow. HEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEH
tryithere 9 months ago
Maybr the boat should take a bow. HEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEH
tryithere 9 months ago
Then will appear on TV that some UFOs have been sighted sailors at sea .... and this guy will be scratching their newly raised buttocks while stretching the legs a bit on the high seas jejejejeje
lamejordmiksa 1 year ago
Oh, was the Andy Gil THE Earth Race?
In that case it was both parties fault, it was a game of chicken which ended with collision.
The Japanese didn't sink it, together Sea Shepherd AND the Japanese accomplished it.
What a shame, it was an extremely fine ship.
ihaterobbie123 1 year ago
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NigelLoller 1 year ago
Might be the worlds fastest stink boat but it's nearly two weeks slower than the record for a sailing boat (Grouprama I think)
NigelLoller 1 year ago
That mint guess what guys my dad has got one it realy fast and coooool
JaMiEpRiCe26 1 year ago
@JaMiEpRiCe26 your dad has a one-of-a-kind, custom built carbon fiber world-record holding boat that was destroyed earlier this year?
spiffman387 1 year ago
@starbrighter ya god zilla for sure since its already crashed and sunk it definitely sucks though.....
7dodododo 1 year ago
@starbrighter i dont think so the japanese sunk it!
2000kx1252 1 year ago
@starbrighter They should call it Titanic xD
NY10909 1 year ago
can't wait to see the ady gil# 2
calj00 1 year ago
FACTS ON THE ADY GIL
Top speed: 40 knots (74 kmh)
Cruising speed: 20 knots (37 km/h)
Range: Halfway around the world - 20,000 km
Cost: Estimated $1 million
Length: 24 metres
Weight: 16 tonnes
Construction: Carbon fibre foam sandwich with kevlar armour.
What a waste of a great boat, to be sunk so easily and for nothing..
JRBeaman 1 year ago
@JRBeaman I think it was fitting- a symbol of the hypocritical enviro-terrorists goes down in the same way their failed, hateful ideas go down: with everyone wondering 'what was the point of that?'
I wonder what investing $1,000,000 into a fresh water system could have done for an African villiage. And you could have ran it on the 77K gallons of fuel you wasted doing....well...nothing.
0HippyHunter0 5 months ago
@0HippyHunter0 I agree this is stupid, just something for the idle rich to play with... but, enviro-terrorists?
There are some VERY real advances being made toward a more sustainable future right now as a result of people working hard to achieve it.
idontcare80 5 months ago
@idontcare80 You are absolutely right, but those advances aren't being made by Greenpeace or Al Gore. Those advances are coming from GE or 3M. And, they are enviro-terrorists. Their entire game plan is to sabotage somebody elses wellbeing so they can achieve their emotional needs. That is as terrorist as it gets. Is killing whales and dolphins wrong? As wrong as killing cows and pigs.
0HippyHunter0 5 months ago
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0HippyHunter0 5 months ago
Has it sunk 4 sure?
fraserdegolfer 2 years ago
yes it sunk a day after being rammed b the Japanese whaling fleet, 1 injury (3 broken ribs to a camera man) the crew was rescued by a another Sea Shepherd ship the "Bob Barker"
venturafor2012 2 years ago 2
@fraserdegolfer in the 6th episode of whale wars, it was rammed by a whaling vessel and the sea shepards attempted to tow it but ended up just about filling up overnight
AKdrifter5145 1 year ago
Too bad this boat is now littering up the bottom of the ocean. I hope no animals died or suffered from the fuel or debris.
smokin650 2 years ago
the fuel and oil was all emptied out and the Ady Gil N2 is going to be coming back to the SOUTHERN OCEAN in late 2010 and 2011...
BulgarianInCanada 2 years ago
@smokin650 They took all fuel and oil out best as possible.
SeaShepherdSecurity 1 year ago
@norwayfinland
ok
rikkeee1234 2 years ago
@norwayfinland
That's just awesome!
Det hadde vært sykt fett!
rikkeee1234 2 years ago
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yuanna48 2 years ago
@norwayfinland
Really?
rikkeee1234 2 years ago
R.I.P. EarthRace. What a boat. What a race it fought.
JulioHooligan 2 years ago 3
And it was just demolished by the Japanese ship like yesterday, ramming speed.. Poor boat a shame really..
rcclow 2 years ago 26
that was only one Earthrace made?
falatalane 2 years ago
YEA BUDDY! Let's the Japanese whalers outrun this bad boy! +1 for whales.
Stormer94 2 years ago 2
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I wonder how many whales/endangered fish this thing has rammed in the last year.
jrdubois112277 2 years ago
hahahaha
Jazza159 2 years ago
dude seriously, I cannot WAIT for whale wars!!! heck yes!!
meeksdigital 2 years ago 7
whalezilla maybe?
Tclans 2 years ago 3
Yes, and now it has joined Sea Shepherd to stop the selfish Japanese pigs who are raping the Southern Oceans of our precious whales. Sink the Japanese whalers Captain Paul Watson. Sink the bastards. With Earthrace--MUCH will be accomplished.
ravengoo 2 years ago 5
What did it do in 60 days?
Around the world...?
sanfranciscobay 3 years ago 11
it did it in 60 days 23 hours and 49 minutes.
ixelr84you 3 years ago 6
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hdfatboy09 1 year ago
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@sanfranciscobay JAPAN - stop slaughtering endangered whales or you will be VERY VERY sorry !
ausbegosh 1 year ago
crazy ship;)
lwkleijn 3 years ago