very cool! There was a company planning to sell an EV jet ski at one time, but haven't heard much more for a couple years...the market price was something like $25K!
I think I threw up a little in my mouth. We have this other green energy source for boats its called wind You can't really pull a skier, but you can have fun sailing. If someone wants to make a cheap waterproof electric outboard, I'll put in on a boat, but that thing just stinks of richy rich trying to pretend he's not doing conspicuous consumption.
Cool. Of course, sailboats are better. I went out once in an America's Cup racer. (Previous years' boats can't race again due to the advances in design every year, so they take paying customers out.) That thing was fast. In a good wind, it'd pull a skier. As far as the consumption/waste of a speedboat, we all waste far more than we need. You can live on a bowl of rice and a few veggies every day, and a few rags for clothing and a shack to keep the rain off. Anything more is unnecessary. It always seems like anybody who has more than yourself is being wasteful, but compared to someone with less than you have, you are being wasteful. It's human nature to feel that what you have is the absolute minimum necessity. Less would be unbearable hardship and it's unfair to make you live on less. It's also human nature to want more and to be envious of people who have more, and therefore to characterize those people as wasteful. Well, they are being wasteful, but so is every one of us. Buying any new car is wasteful. Living in a house with more than one room for a small family is wasteful. I waste more than a lot of people, but less than some. It's human nature to be wasteful and to be envious of and angry with people who can afford to waste more than we can. I'd love to ride in an electric speedboat. I'd rather ride in a sailboat. Too bad I get seasick.
