http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/czeers-shows-off-worlds-first-solar-powered-speedboat/ Engadget Comments for Czeers shows off "world's first" solar powered speedboat http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/czeers-shows-off-worlds-first-solar-powered-speedboat/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/czeers-shows-off-worlds-first-solar-powered-speedboat/May 26th 2008 8:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/czeers-shows-off-worlds-first-solar-powered-speedboat/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/czeers-shows-off-worlds-first-solar-powered-speedboat/May 26th 2008 3:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/czeers-shows-off-worlds-first-solar-powered-speedboat/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/czeers-shows-off-worlds-first-solar-powered-speedboat/May 26th 2008 8:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/czeers-shows-off-worlds-first-solar-powered-speedboat/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/czeers-shows-off-worlds-first-solar-powered-speedboat/May 26th 2008 9:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/czeers-shows-off-worlds-first-solar-powered-speedboat/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/czeers-shows-off-worlds-first-solar-powered-speedboat/
Your philistinism knows no bounds.]]>May 26th 2008 9:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/czeers-shows-off-worlds-first-solar-powered-speedboat/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/czeers-shows-off-worlds-first-solar-powered-speedboat/May 26th 2008 9:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/czeers-shows-off-worlds-first-solar-powered-speedboat/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/czeers-shows-off-worlds-first-solar-powered-speedboat/May 26th 2008 10:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/czeers-shows-off-worlds-first-solar-powered-speedboat/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/czeers-shows-off-worlds-first-solar-powered-speedboat/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphex_Twin]]>May 26th 2008 3:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/czeers-shows-off-worlds-first-solar-powered-speedboat/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/czeers-shows-off-worlds-first-solar-powered-speedboat/
thanks for taking time out of your busy vinyl-buying schedules to impart your opinions as fact. There's a reason songs by Sting and the Postal Service get chosen for ads, and not Aphex Twin. Go snark on a music blog.]]>May 26th 2008 5:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/czeers-shows-off-worlds-first-solar-powered-speedboat/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/czeers-shows-off-worlds-first-solar-powered-speedboat/
For some reason, I don't think "Such Great Heights" or "Message in a Bottle" are going to be very effective in an ad for a high-tech solar-powered speedboat.

But I agree with it being a pretty pointless and overlong video.]]>May 27th 2008 7:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/czeers-shows-off-worlds-first-solar-powered-speedboat/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/czeers-shows-off-worlds-first-solar-powered-speedboat/
No, I just don't like Techno]]>May 28th 2008 10:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/czeers-shows-off-worlds-first-solar-powered-speedboat/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/czeers-shows-off-worlds-first-solar-powered-speedboat/May 26th 2008 8:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/czeers-shows-off-worlds-first-solar-powered-speedboat/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/czeers-shows-off-worlds-first-solar-powered-speedboat/May 26th 2008 9:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/czeers-shows-off-worlds-first-solar-powered-speedboat/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/czeers-shows-off-worlds-first-solar-powered-speedboat/
Tesla is pursuing this strategy. Their first electric car is a $100k sports car and they have plans for a (slightly) more affordable sedan.

If you try to rush into a mass-produced product and it sucks, you do more harm to reputation of your company and the technology than you do any good.]]>May 26th 2008 9:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/czeers-shows-off-worlds-first-solar-powered-speedboat/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/czeers-shows-off-worlds-first-solar-powered-speedboat/
Also, I can't listen to this song without imagining I'm wearing a white leisure suit, sipping champagne in a limousine whilst black women (all of which having my face) with big asses gyrate on my lap. ]]>May 26th 2008 9:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/czeers-shows-off-worlds-first-solar-powered-speedboat/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/czeers-shows-off-worlds-first-solar-powered-speedboat/May 26th 2008 9:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/czeers-shows-off-worlds-first-solar-powered-speedboat/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/czeers-shows-off-worlds-first-solar-powered-speedboat/

and they don't show the interior either... but I guess it's just to show it can sail (or isn't it drive, when it's a motorboat?)...]]>May 27th 2008 4:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/czeers-shows-off-worlds-first-solar-powered-speedboat/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/czeers-shows-off-worlds-first-solar-powered-speedboat/May 26th 2008 9:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/czeers-shows-off-worlds-first-solar-powered-speedboat/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/czeers-shows-off-worlds-first-solar-powered-speedboat/
Substance, While I agree that it seems weird to stuff luxuries into a boat, car whatever at least we are looking in the right direction and hopefully they will sell. You get a plus 1 from me]]>May 26th 2008 9:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/czeers-shows-off-worlds-first-solar-powered-speedboat/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/czeers-shows-off-worlds-first-solar-powered-speedboat/May 26th 2008 9:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/czeers-shows-off-worlds-first-solar-powered-speedboat/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/czeers-shows-off-worlds-first-solar-powered-speedboat/
Why do I get that on just about every video posted here lately?]]>May 26th 2008 9:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/czeers-shows-off-worlds-first-solar-powered-speedboat/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/czeers-shows-off-worlds-first-solar-powered-speedboat/
what to do then you was hit by storm, or night?]]>May 26th 2008 9:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/czeers-shows-off-worlds-first-solar-powered-speedboat/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/czeers-shows-off-worlds-first-solar-powered-speedboat/
You'll probably do the same thing you would do in a sail boat when there is no wind. Or a gas powered boat that runs out of gas.


]]>May 26th 2008 10:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/czeers-shows-off-worlds-first-solar-powered-speedboat/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/czeers-shows-off-worlds-first-solar-powered-speedboat/May 26th 2008 2:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/czeers-shows-off-worlds-first-solar-powered-speedboat/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/czeers-shows-off-worlds-first-solar-powered-speedboat/
But is 35 mph really that fast? How long can it run for? Are the solar cells that effective to run it full speed without batteries?]]>May 26th 2008 10:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/czeers-shows-off-worlds-first-solar-powered-speedboat/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/czeers-shows-off-worlds-first-solar-powered-speedboat/May 26th 2008 10:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/czeers-shows-off-worlds-first-solar-powered-speedboat/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/czeers-shows-off-worlds-first-solar-powered-speedboat/May 26th 2008 10:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/czeers-shows-off-worlds-first-solar-powered-speedboat/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/czeers-shows-off-worlds-first-solar-powered-speedboat/
Also, I'm a student from University College London, and there is a decent sized solar powered speed-boat type object in a glass case in the lobby of one of our science buildings. I don't know much about it, but it makes me question whether this thing really is the first solar powered speed boat....]]>May 26th 2008 10:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/czeers-shows-off-worlds-first-solar-powered-speedboat/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/czeers-shows-off-worlds-first-solar-powered-speedboat/
Me: You sir, are a retard.]]>May 26th 2008 11:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/czeers-shows-off-worlds-first-solar-powered-speedboat/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/czeers-shows-off-worlds-first-solar-powered-speedboat/May 26th 2008 11:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/czeers-shows-off-worlds-first-solar-powered-speedboat/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/czeers-shows-off-worlds-first-solar-powered-speedboat/May 26th 2008 11:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/czeers-shows-off-worlds-first-solar-powered-speedboat/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/czeers-shows-off-worlds-first-solar-powered-speedboat/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphex_Twin]]>May 26th 2008 3:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/czeers-shows-off-worlds-first-solar-powered-speedboat/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/czeers-shows-off-worlds-first-solar-powered-speedboat/May 26th 2008 12:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/czeers-shows-off-worlds-first-solar-powered-speedboat/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/czeers-shows-off-worlds-first-solar-powered-speedboat/
Oddly enough those clips where they showed the bubbling water behind the boat are not actually of that boat. I saw the same exact clips on a Top Gear episode. Funny to see them again...]]>May 26th 2008 1:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/czeers-shows-off-worlds-first-solar-powered-speedboat/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/czeers-shows-off-worlds-first-solar-powered-speedboat/May 26th 2008 2:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/czeers-shows-off-worlds-first-solar-powered-speedboat/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/czeers-shows-off-worlds-first-solar-powered-speedboat/May 26th 2008 2:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/czeers-shows-off-worlds-first-solar-powered-speedboat/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/czeers-shows-off-worlds-first-solar-powered-speedboat/May 26th 2008 7:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/czeers-shows-off-worlds-first-solar-powered-speedboat/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/czeers-shows-off-worlds-first-solar-powered-speedboat/May 26th 2008 1:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/czeers-shows-off-worlds-first-solar-powered-speedboat/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/czeers-shows-off-worlds-first-solar-powered-speedboat/May 26th 2008 2:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/czeers-shows-off-worlds-first-solar-powered-speedboat/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/czeers-shows-off-worlds-first-solar-powered-speedboat/May 26th 2008 6:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/czeers-shows-off-worlds-first-solar-powered-speedboat/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/czeers-shows-off-worlds-first-solar-powered-speedboat/
@ Everyone else who doesn't know Aphex Twin, please watch this and edumacate urselves: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8804626016784281300

Peace....]]>May 26th 2008 1:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/czeers-shows-off-worlds-first-solar-powered-speedboat/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/czeers-shows-off-worlds-first-solar-powered-speedboat/Area X Solar Radiation
10m x 3m = 30m^2 *1000 W/m^2 = 30kW == 40hp

Conversion efficiencies of the best solar powered cars are about 25% So 10hp? Hardly a "speedboat", but I did enjoy my old Evinrude 9.9hp on the Zodiac.]]>May 26th 2008 2:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/czeers-shows-off-worlds-first-solar-powered-speedboat/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/czeers-shows-off-worlds-first-solar-powered-speedboat/
I am assuming here is not powered by solar so much as CHARGED by solar. IE battery pack :-)]]>May 26th 2008 6:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/czeers-shows-off-worlds-first-solar-powered-speedboat/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/czeers-shows-off-worlds-first-solar-powered-speedboat/May 26th 2008 2:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/czeers-shows-off-worlds-first-solar-powered-speedboat/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/czeers-shows-off-worlds-first-solar-powered-speedboat/May 26th 2008 2:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/czeers-shows-off-worlds-first-solar-powered-speedboat/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/czeers-shows-off-worlds-first-solar-powered-speedboat/May 26th 2008 7:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/czeers-shows-off-worlds-first-solar-powered-speedboat/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/czeers-shows-off-worlds-first-solar-powered-speedboat/May 27th 2008 12:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/czeers-shows-off-worlds-first-solar-powered-speedboat/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/czeers-shows-off-worlds-first-solar-powered-speedboat/
Internal combustion engine... Gas + Electricity What could go wrong?? ;-) ]]>May 26th 2008 2:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/czeers-shows-off-worlds-first-solar-powered-speedboat/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/czeers-shows-off-worlds-first-solar-powered-speedboat/May 26th 2008 3:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/czeers-shows-off-worlds-first-solar-powered-speedboat/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/czeers-shows-off-worlds-first-solar-powered-speedboat/
Friendship!]]>May 26th 2008 5:40PM