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Earthrace Boat: Carbon Trimaran Stabs Through Waves, Video

The Earthrace boat isn't some Greenpeace sponsored, treehugging tug. No! It's a treehugging, carbon/Kevlar-hulled, 1080-Horsepower, 78 foot speedboat with a sharp bow meant to harpoon waves. Apparently, submarining through the crests of waves is a lot more efficient than going up and over them. And, as Wired reported, the boat ran a section of its circumnavigation off biofuel processed from the captain's ass fat. Really.

Video of the ass-powered boat slicing up waves, after the jump.

Ass Powered Boat [Thanks, Brian Chiko ]
Ass Powered Boat [Wired]

7:47 PM on Fri Aug 18 2006
By Brian Lam
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