{"id":997,"date":"2006-05-28T16:57:36","date_gmt":"2006-05-28T21:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=997"},"modified":"2006-05-28T16:57:36","modified_gmt":"2006-05-28T21:57:36","slug":"solar-ferry-on-sf-bay-efficiency-is-easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=997","title":{"rendered":"Solar ferry on SF Bay &#8211; efficiency is easy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.solarsailor.com\/media_msnbc_060525.htm\">hybrid solar\/diesel ferry<\/a> made by an Australian company called &#8220;Solar Sailor&#8221; has been chosen to shuttle visitors to the Alcatraz national park. The ferry is twice as fuel-efficient as typical diesel ferries. They cost about $5 million, or about twice as much as traditional ferries.   The vendor says that the system would <a href=\"http:\/\/www.solarsailor.com\/technology_ben.htm\">save $6 million<\/a> over the 15 year life span of the vehicle, so 7 year payback period, not counting the value of reduced pollution and noise.<br \/>\nThis is the first hybrid ferry in use in the US, ever.  Meanwhile, it costs $5-10k to retrofit a Prius to get 100mpg.  Today, the plugin hybrid technology is costly enough to be more of a status symbol than a cost-savings (if plugin hybrids displace some  sportscars as status symbols, it&#8217;s a non-problem).  Putting the technology in production will help it get cheaper.  It&#8217;s possible to get more energy-efficient by a factor of lots, the question is how long we have for the transition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A hybrid solar\/diesel ferry made by an Australian company called &#8220;Solar Sailor&#8221; has been chosen to shuttle visitors to the Alcatraz national park. The ferry is twice as fuel-efficient as typical diesel ferries. They cost about $5 million, or about twice as much as traditional ferries. The vendor says that the system would save $6 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=997\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Solar ferry on SF Bay &#8211; efficiency is easy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-green"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prDRq-g5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}