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jpak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-15-06 04:45 PM
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World's First Sun and Wind-Powered (600 passenger) Ferry
http://www.gotoreviews.com/archives/news/worlds-first-sun-and-windpowered-ferry.html#more

A San Francisco-based company, Hornblower Yachts, is working with Solar Sailor of Sydney, Australia, to construct two 600-passenger trimarans for Alcatraz (at a cost of between $6 million and $8 million apiece) that will run on as much on sun and wind power as they do diesel fuel—and will emit half the pollutants of a similar sized conventional ferry. Service is scheduled to start in 2008, and a second vessel is on order for 2011.

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mike_c Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-15-06 04:51 PM
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1. LOL-- sun and wind powered ferrys were quite common...
...until about a hundred years or so ago....

Here's a modern one:
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jpak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-15-06 04:52 PM
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2. Looks like retro is the new black (again)
:hi:
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