As a few have stated. Do any of you realize the amount of so-called "carbon foot print discharge" that it took to create this useless piece of junk? Sure it might futuristic and cool. But the amount of carbon that it took to create the fiberglass resins and epoxies to build this boat would stagger your imagination. Remember the article stated that this boat weighs in at 60 tons. Now lets break that down. The fiberglass hull probably comprises at least 35 tons of that weight. Meaning tons of fossil fuels to produce the resins and glass in the fiberglass. Oh and lets not forget there is no way to safely dispose of the hull once it's out lived it's usefullness. Unlike steel or aluminium that can be melted down and reused. Then we get to the solar cells. 15 knots is barely the equivalent of a very small outboard motor. Not very efficient for crossing the ocean. Then there's the batteries. What about days and days of overcast weather? I speak from personal experience of being at sea for months at a time, it happens and there's not a dammed thing you can do about that. I'm sure they're using something equivelent to the batteries being used in hybred cars and the batteries are an eviromentalist nightmare that are toxic waste and there's no adequate way of disposing of them with contaminating the soil. All in all, I'd say this boat is a huge boondoggle and I'd bet anyone that on it's maiden voyage the Coast Guard somewhere in the world will be getting a distress call to rescue these idiots because the batteries are dead. In which case it will cost the tax payers thousands to rescue them. Who's going to pay that bill?

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