Solar powered ferry replaces diesel powered ferry and doesn't work 3

[LittleInch]

If you watched the video in the original link that's one of the claims and is the background for some of the negative comments.

The solar bit is the only thing making this interesting wheras the windage of the ferry when loaded with more vehicles, underpowered motors and seemingly poor design in terms of maintaining itself when docked at either side.

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[GregLocock]

Here's the same sort of stuff up for a conventionally powered ferry.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10...-secondhand-by-the-time-they-arrive/104513124

Bear in mind these are the guys that fell for the high tech wave piercing catamaran story, and bought a ferry that was unable to leave dock, or had to turn round, for 10% of its scheduled departures because it couldn't handle the (well known) rough seas in its area of operation.

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Greg Locock


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[TugboatEng]

LOL, when you mentioned a failed ferry and Tasmania I thought you were referring to the HST-2. They were built by Austal. Everything about the project has been a failure. In fact, Austal seems to be a plague on the world of Western ship building. Every ship they build is a failure. Despite that, they get huge contracts that countries can't back out of. The Litorral Combat Ship was their next example.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HST-2