From the “let them eat cake, but we’re saving the planet” department comes a new level of hubris unmatched in modern times.
[Superyacht] owner Leonardo DeCaprio has nothing on this, and he probably wishes he’s said it. There’s an article in this glossy magazine testament to snobbery called Luxury London that cries out for a smackdown.
Turning The Tide: The Sustainable Future of Superyachts
Our vast oceans, their marine life and the shores surrounding them are in peril. Among those preparing a rescue mission is the superyacht industry, which is navigating an innovative journey towards sustainability
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Feadship’s 83m Savannah (pictured below) is the first superyacht to use an eco-friendly hybrid propulsion platform encompassing propellers and azimuthing thrusters for power, electric motors and diesel engines for drive, and gensets and batteries for energy storage. The shipyard’s new facility in Amsterdam is also designed with eco-friendly features, including more than 2,000 solar panels, LED lighting, a three-tier ventilation system and the innovative use of district heating, which harnesses excess energy from nearby factories.
And you think to yourself, gee, with all the caterwauling from the left about “carbon footprints” how could they possibly merge “sustainability” with a fuel consumption rate of more than 500 liters of diesel an hour?
Well, if you think that’s absurd, get a load of this quote from the article:
“Today’s superyacht owners are younger and more in tune with the climate change around us”
That’s comforting, and a totally off-the-rails disconnect from reality to be sipping your Dom Perignon from a beast that uses hundreds of times more energy and more emissions than 99% of every other single person on the planet.
But when you’re the 1%, you don’t need to worry about what those people think.
“the first superyacht to use an eco-friendly hybrid propulsion platform encompassing propellers and azimuthing thrusters for power, electric motors and diesel engines for drive, and gensets and batteries for energy storage.”
This is a bit confusing, to say the least. Propellers are OK for ahead or astern propulsion, and the most efficient way is to have them geared to the diesel engines. However, a normal situation if space constraints prohibit this is to have the diesel engine drive an alternator, and to locate motors in suitable places to drive the propellers. Azimuthing “thrusters” provide steering, though the term “thruster” is more normally related to a transversely mounted propeller in a tunnel at the bow. But this is not new at all. Readers are invited to view:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Queen_Mary_2#Power_plant_and_propulsion_system
where this system was used, though on a much larger scale.
Presumably the ‘gensets’ duplicate the main diesel engines – in most ships the main diesel engine (or one of them if there are more than one) can also provide the power required for the ‘hotel’ electrical services. Perhaps the main diesel engine was considered too big to be run in port? But why the batteries? Were the diesel engines considered too unreliable that back up batteries were needed, or was it determined that the owner did not want the noise of the genset running at night – too noisy and disturbed his sleep?
The batteries would most likely be for storing the solar generated energy.
The top of that yacht ought to be a good spot for some windmills, but I didn’t see any.
Nor sails. |It’s not really a yacht is it?
What is all this caterwaulling about the oceans? As the oceans rise, does this not give more room for our friendly fishes to frolic in?
Globull Warming, a fish friendly phenomenon!
I bet if you tried to serve Dom Perignon to a super yacht owner he’s smirk and throw the bottle overboard. You too if he was in a mood.
They only drink custom vintages from their private vineyards in places you have never heard of.
Nothing but lies and hate speech and hypocrisy and authoritarian snobbery and censorship and arrogance and propaganda oozes and flows from our leftist enemies.
They abuse every ounce of power they acquire. Near monopoly in the MSM… nothing but fake news. Monopoly in Academia…nothing but censorship and demotion and abuse of non-leftists.
No individual freedom is safe while these evil operators exist. Unfortunately, “these” have always existed and will always exist. “These” are the evil souls the US CONSTITUTION was crafted to impede.
I wonder what a “3 tier ventilating system” is; Full A/C for the mucky-mucks; windows for the passengers and sweat-bands for the crew.
What better way to demonstrate being “more in tune with the climate crisis around us” than discretionary trips aboard a 274-foot yacht equipped with four diesel engines capable of producing 5500 horsepower while guzzling 500 liters of fossil fuel every hour?
It may be that Marie Antoinette or other French Queen said let them eat Tourteau..
This can indicate Cattlecake as well as a kind of cheesecake. Also when used about seafood it can mean crab.
Cattlecake was used in times of famine. Peapods and husks of grains after winnowing,Isuppose.