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Yesterday, videographer Kelly Loudenberg headed out to check out a visitor to New York. She writes:
Yesterday afternoon the Swiss vessel, Sun21, arrived into New York's North Cove Marina after completing a 7,000 mile journey across the Atlantic. And before you say, "So, what?" think about this: The Sun21 made it here without a drop of oil.You can learn more at the Sun21 website. And here's coverage from the Staten Island Advance, NY Times, and AP.The Swiss-built solar-powered catamaran left continental Europe on December 3, 2006 and arrived in Martinique on February 2nd. It then traveled up to New York through March and April. The shipbuilder, Mark Wüst, says, "It's important for the next generation. We bring some solutions for the problems we have now. It's a small boat, but we can build it bigger."
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Hmm... isn't Switzerland land locked?!?
I'll stick with an airplane using lots and lots of oil, and make it across the Atlantic in a few hours.
Um, people have been crossing the Atlantic for hundreds of years without oil. Or sunlight for that matter. Wind power & sails!
yes, but this is the first boat to use solar panels to generate it's electricity. the good thing about a boat like this is that it can be developed into bigger boats that can carry things far distances without the use of oil.
excuse my spelling. it's= its. "...to generate its electricity."