Carbon-Free Sailors Saved by Carbon-Heavy Oil Tanker
Posted May 7th, 2009 at 11.03am in Energy and Environment.
The BBC reports:
An expedition team which set sail from Plymouth on a 5,000-mile carbon emission-free trip to Greenland have been rescued by an oil tanker.
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The team, which left Mount Batten Marina in Plymouth on 19 April in a boat named the Fleur, aimed to rely on sail, solar and man power on a 580-mile (933km/h) journey to and from the highest point of the Greenland ice cap.The expedition was followed by up to 40 schools across the UK to promote climate change awareness.
So an environmentalist stunt designed to indoctrinate children about the wonders of a green economy turns into a lesson about the dependability and necessity of carbon based energy. One might call it irony. We like to think of it as justice.
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May 7, 2009 Ozzy6900, CT writes:
The ship was not carbon free if it was manned by humans!
Funny, sail ships of old relied on sail and wind for their power and they worked fine! What did these “scholars” do wrong?