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biodiesel boating - circumnavigation attempt

Started by gcaptain · 11 months ago

The G Living Network brings us The Earthracer BioDiesel Experimental Racing Ship Boat and it’s attempt to circumnavigate the globe;
This is our first time covering the Earthracer, a racing ship using Biodiesel as fuel, as it attempts to circle the globe. We are covering it n ... Continue reading »

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Tim
1 year ago

That boat looks bad..............

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Jof Arnold
1 year ago

Wow: looks like Darth Vader designed it! Awesome.

However, it does really annoy me why people keep up the false belief that bio diesel is any good for the environment. Putting the prefix "bio" in front of something doesn't make it good: "biohazard" and "bio-warfare" are good examples.

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Devon
1 year ago

"That biodiesel is good for the environment" ...or that ethanol is a miracle cure (it takes a lot of diesel to run the tractors/combines/ect to make it!).

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