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Earthrace on their record attempt: Not gonna happen...

Posted Apr 30th 2007 at 1:07PM by Jeremy Korzeniewski

Filed under: Biodiesel, Transportation Alternatives



You have to give it to the Earthrace crew for keeping the faith as long as they have, and with all of the problems that they have encountered along the way, including the possible breakage of their boat and a deadly accident involving a fishing boat. Just a few days ago, we updated you that they had revised their trip plan in one final last ditch attempt to break the record of circumnavigating the globe using their biodiesel-powered boat. But, it seems that reality has recently struck, and they are going to go ahead and finally call it quits.

Perhaps the crew can get all of the problems behind them in the next few years and go for another attempt, as the idea of using biodiesel to power their boat in an attempt to raise awareness of the fuel might just be good enough press to make it into the public spotlight.

[Earthrace via The Sietch Blog]

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Tags: biodiesel, biodiesel boat, BiodieselBoat, earthrace, record attempt, RecordAttempt

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Earthrace props may be failing in first leg of round-the-world record attempt

Posted Mar 12th 2007 at 6:51PM by Mike Magda

Filed under: Biodiesel, Etc., Green Culture, Transportation Alternatives



The biodiesel-powered, environmentally friendly Earthrace speedboat is limping into its first port. The boat took off on a world-record attempt to circumnavigate the globe on March 10. But 16 hours later, according to the team's website, the crew nearly had to give up the attempt.

Apparently the trick carbon props designed for subs are starting to fail. Increased vibration forced the team to slow down and inspect the components. All the blades have sections where the carbon is peeling away, leading to one blade nearly losing its entire edge.

The crew is nursing the boat into Panama where the crew will review their options.

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[Source: Earthrace]

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Tags: bio diese boat, BioDieseBoat, biodiesel boat, BiodieselBoat, earthrace

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60,000 tons of biodiesel leave Malaysia by boat

Posted Aug 16th 2006 at 7:42PM by Sebastian Blanco

Filed under: Biodiesel

The first boatload full of 60,000 tons of biofuel made from palm oil left Malaysia for, expectedly, Germany yesterday. While the government is understandably proud of this feat, but as Treehugger notes, making biodiesel in SE Asia often means lots of deforestation. In Malaysia's case, 87 percent of the deforestation in the country was because of new palm oil plantations. Malaysian Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister Datuk Peter Chin said Malaysia must increase the pace at which oil palm was replanted to realize the Government's vision of achieving 35 tons of oil palm fresh fruit brunches per hectare yearly and 25% palm oil extraction rate by 2020, according to the Malaysian Star.

[Source: Malaysian Star via Treehugger]

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Tags: biodiesel boat, BiodieselBoat, datuk peter chin, DatukPeterChin, malaysian plantation industries, malaysian star, MalaysianPlantationIndustries, MalaysianStar

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