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12 years 4 months ago - 12 years 4 months ago #91
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The first passengers boat with zero carbon emission of Lorient urban area was launched on Monday, at the
Lorient STX shipyard
, based in the zone of Rohu in Lanester, other side of the harbour.
The Ar Vag Tredan ("electric boat" in Breton) should be put in service at the end of October after a phase of tests in the pontoon and at sea. It also remains to end the internal arrangements.
This electric boat will complete the fleet of the Lorient collective transport company which counts already four passenger ships connecting the cities which line the natural harbour: Lorient, Locmiquelic, Port Louis and Gâvres.
The investment amounts to 3,4 million euro. A world premiere. " It is about the first passengers boat with zero emission of CO2, equipped with super-capacity condensers ", explains Mathieu Lelièvre, engineer at STX. These aluminium condensers allow a very fast refill of the order of 4 minutes.
22.1 meters long for a 7.2 meter width, Ar Vag Tredan, who will assure shuttles in the harbor of Lorient, presents a 1.5 meter draft. Endowed with two azimuthal propellers, this catamaran, capable of reaching the speed of 10 knots, can welcome 113 persons, among whom 3 with reduced mobility, as well as 10 bikes. This ship was designed and built by STX France in cooperation with Stirling Design International, naval architect and designer of the project.
Local work built by local workers... And moreover, not naughty... Well, some well spent public money, for once...
The Ar Vag Tredan ("electric boat" in Breton) should be put in service at the end of October after a phase of tests in the pontoon and at sea. It also remains to end the internal arrangements.
This electric boat will complete the fleet of the Lorient collective transport company which counts already four passenger ships connecting the cities which line the natural harbour: Lorient, Locmiquelic, Port Louis and Gâvres.
The investment amounts to 3,4 million euro. A world premiere. " It is about the first passengers boat with zero emission of CO2, equipped with super-capacity condensers ", explains Mathieu Lelièvre, engineer at STX. These aluminium condensers allow a very fast refill of the order of 4 minutes.
22.1 meters long for a 7.2 meter width, Ar Vag Tredan, who will assure shuttles in the harbor of Lorient, presents a 1.5 meter draft. Endowed with two azimuthal propellers, this catamaran, capable of reaching the speed of 10 knots, can welcome 113 persons, among whom 3 with reduced mobility, as well as 10 bikes. This ship was designed and built by STX France in cooperation with Stirling Design International, naval architect and designer of the project.
Local work built by local workers... And moreover, not naughty... Well, some well spent public money, for once...
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12 years 3 months ago - 12 years 3 months ago #92
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80 years after the Citroën Yellow Cruise, the spirit is still present...
8 months, 17 countries, 25000 kilometers... and 250 euros of electricity
They made it !
More info here
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80 years after the Citroën Yellow Cruise, the spirit is still present...
8 months, 17 countries, 25000 kilometers... and 250 euros of electricity
They made it !
More info here
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12 years 3 months ago - 12 years 3 months ago #93
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"Straight and narrow is the path."
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It's great that they didn't go trough Romania. Otherwise this would've happened...
"Straight and narrow is the path."
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- Nothing is as powerful as an idea whose time has come (Victor Hugo)
12 years 3 months ago - 12 years 3 months ago #94
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Always be yourself unless you can be a unicorn, then always be a unicorn.
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Buried Tiger tank?
But you can be happy, that the romanian holes are so small...
Last year only 50 kilometres from here, this happened overnight:
But you can be happy, that the romanian holes are so small...
Last year only 50 kilometres from here, this happened overnight:
Always be yourself unless you can be a unicorn, then always be a unicorn.
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12 years 3 months ago #95
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12 years 3 months ago #96
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"Straight and narrow is the path."
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Any reports on how that happened? Maybe alien attack 
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