Comments on: A green voyage around the globe

Earthrace hopes to be the first high-tech powerboat to circumnavigate the globe on a renewable fuel known as biodiesel.

[CapZap]

Seasick on the hemp?

All I can see is the enormous amount of CO2 that was released to produce this . . . craft. And what was also released in the process of making the money to foot the cost?

Anyhow, you build a super-rich boys' toy, run biodiesel, claim to be a Green and stock it with organic potatoes to prove it.

You suppose they used some petroleum distillates to clean the puke out of the carpet?

[billmosby]

Well said.

My thoughts, exactly. The key to sustainability is moderation. If you
produce and use "bio" whatever to excess, that will have an
enormous impact on the natural systems used for production. Of
course, humans generally take whatever works and amplify it out of
all proportion. That is hard-wired into us.

[rmiecznik]

HEMP ya baby!!!

If HEMP was grown by farmers, all our problems would be solved. :- )

BTW: My socks are hemp, my underwear is hemp, my pants are hemp, my shirt is hemp, everything I wear is hemp.

[Below Meigh]

Sea(sick) green?

Along with the previous comments, when do you think the restaurants will see the opportunity to profit on their waste oils/grease, thus stopping the "free" waste and now bringing it up to par with diesel? All I 've read about BioDiesel is from those that get the waste oil for free from friends that work at restaurants or from verbal ok's of some evening manager. Once the franchises see this at green, they'll want green.

[schwedeee]

Still on the dark side.

This looks to me like a very unsustainable brat hobby. Consuming large amounts of biodiesel isn't helping the environment in any way.

The biodiesel source is rapeseed oil and sunflower oil (97%).. Oils that probably could be used better somewhere else.

Peter, go get yourself a sailing boat if you are so environmentally conscious.