Turlach MacDonagh puttered around Boston Harbor this weekend on our first solar-powered boat, the SunPlugged.
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This is great, Boston should
By anon
Mon, 06/23/2014 - 10:03am
This is great, Boston should convert all the water taxis to electric (plug in/solar hybrid) like this so our hard work cleaning the harbor and air in Boston stays that way.
hmmm
By johnmcboston
Mon, 06/23/2014 - 10:35am
Aren't sailboats technically solar powered? :-)
The wind is free...
By Bob Leponge
Mon, 06/23/2014 - 10:46am
The wind is free, if you just leave it be.
Use it for thrust? A fortune's a must.
So are diesel boats
By Bob Leponge
Mon, 06/23/2014 - 1:56pm
If you think about it, diesel boats are ultimately solar powered too, albeit by sunshine that fell on the earth a long, long, time ago. Nuclear is probably the only energy source we've got that isn't ultimately solar.
Well technically...
By KSquared
Mon, 06/23/2014 - 3:00pm
The uranium used in nuclear reactors came from supernovas. So, technically a solar energy. :P
All heavy elements, including
By anon
Mon, 06/23/2014 - 3:24pm
All heavy elements, including the radioactive ones, were created in supernovas, so while they may not be from our sun they are from a star somewhere. Kinda stretching "solar power" a bit though...
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