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You’ve been there before. You want to sail your $40 million yacht, but you’re worried that using it will increase your carbon footprint. Among the solutions designers have come up with after investing time and effort is this “fuel-sipping schooner.” It’s called the “Monaco Yacht.”
It’s also called the Emax E-Volution solar hybrid schooner, designed by Souter Carbon Offset Design, and it has several power sources: wind, sun, twin engines (which run on marine diesel).
Using the two non-fossil fuel power sources, the yacht can reach 14 knots maximum. With the engines, it reaches 28 knots, according to the designers.
They are making or trying to make this ship. Sauter is partnering with Ned Ship Group of Switzerland, and the estimate is over $40 million.
There will be options, it seems, when you go to buy your “Monaco Yacht.”
“It depends on what the owner is thinking about to put on the yacht,” Ned Ship spokesman Egon Faiss said, as was reported by Wired. “We from our side recommend to go as lightweight as possible, because this is in the beginning the most important step to go the economical way.”
Wired reported the boats amenities would include:
6 guest cabins and 1 master suite
Outdoor cinema
Coat check room
Sun deck
Outdoor sunbeds
Outdoor bars
Pool
Wine storage area
Waste recovery system on refrigerator (walk in one)
Wire reported that all of those amenities could be powered by the solar panels embedded into the boats surface carbon fiber. Also, energy is reused, like the waste recovery system on the fridge, it heats the Jacuzzi water in the master bedroom.
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