Posted on 02/11/2020 11:07:19 AM PST by rktman
Bill Gates has reportedly ordered himself a gigantic yacht.
According to the The New York Post, the Telegraph reported that Gates had ordered the $644 million Aqua yacht from the Dutch design firm Sinot. However, Sinot told the New York Post no deal has been done just yet. Still, if something is in the works, the yacht sounds absurd.
Whether or not Gates ever takes control of Aqua, it’s such a power move to even consider spending $644 million on a boat.
I’ve always been obsessed with yachts. I’m not even sure why, but I just think they’re awesome. A yacht isn’t just a status symbol.
It’s a lifestyle choice. When you’re living on a yacht, you’re essentially telling the world you’re living a carefree lifestyle.
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“95% of hydrogen is manufactured from fossil fuels”
If they had true hydrogen fueled capabilies, wouldn’t only water be needed in any kind of production or support of hydrogen fueled power sources? I’m not a mechanic I need to learn more about this.I know this concept used to be floated in the “popular science” magazine, but it seemed like science fiction then. I’m going to the hardware to see if I can’t get me one of those new Stihl ‘water powered’ chainsaws.
I imagine ocean waves would stress O rings and seals.
If I had that kind of loose change I’d go nuke.
“The US Navy has accumulated over 6200 reactor-years of accident-free experience involving 526 nuclear reactor cores over the course of 240 million kilometres”
” The Sevmorput (a Russian icebreaker) pressure vessel for a relatively large marine reactor is 4.6 m high and 1.8 m diameter, enclosing a core 1 m high and 1.2 m diameter.”
Long but informative article, https://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/non-power-nuclear-applications/transport/nuclear-powered-ships.aspx
Interesting about the security vessels. Were they true ocean-going boats, or do you think they were used in Puget Sound only? If ocean capable, they must have been pretty substantial.
Where cometh the hydrogen?
If Gates buys it, I hope it sinks.
80%. That is the maximum efficiency of creating hydrogen from electrolysis. It’s a net energy dump. You have (5) $20 bills, you flush one of them down the toilet every time you make it. Otherwise, it’s produced by using natural gas which makes hydrogen and methane as a by-product. Only idiots, and liberals, but then I repeat myself, would think that because it’s powered by hydrogen, that it would be “green”. Pfftt.
Probably what was observed about fuel and gasoline at one time.
Sure hard to understand the lack of curiosity, creativity and expermentation
That’s just a little larger than my fishing boat.
#20 I was in a open 14ft 3 bench fishing boat. The kind many have for fishing small lakes. I was at the Lake of the Woods 68 x 59 miles, on the Minnesota side in a small bay. I could see white caps out on the lake itself while it was calm in the bay.
Meanwhile a very large boat cruise by us heading out to the main lake. On the stern there was a 14ft boat.....
“It’s a lifestyle choice. When you’re living on a yacht, you’re essentially telling the world you’re living a carefree lifestyle.”
Yeah, some carefree. Maintenance, fuel, insurance, crew & private security pay are astronomical on a barge that size. Even the beautiful women on mega yachts are provided by escort services & that doesn’t come cheap.
I know, so what, he’s rich, what does he care?
How carefree are those Caribbean ports of call with huge port & docking fees, where the harbor police see “rich white man’s yacht” and swarm aboard to “search for illegal drugs” until the right palms are crossed? Where having a gun on board for protection gets you thrown in a local jail and arraigned before a local judge with an itchy palm?
For some reason youtube has been sending me vids of “super yacht on board tour” where the minimum length overall is around 250 feet. Sure, very impressive and very cold & sterile in my opinion. You forget you are on board or at sea & what good is that?
Bill Gates can have it. Doesn’t he impress people enough already without a mega yacht? My own experience is with boats that need only one or two to crew it. Enough boat for me. Liveaboard couples on a 35’ or 40’ sailboat; now that’s the carefree independent life on the water, I would think.
Thomas Wolfe to Ernest Hemingway: “The rich are very different from you and me.”
Hemingway: “Yes, they have more money.”
Bill Gates can afford to flush lots of 20 dollar bills down the toilet if he wants to be a woke yacht owner.
Maybe it runs on Unicorn farts.
Give me the Seaview.
Blue screen on the blue aea.
And Gates's daughter is engaged to some guy from Egypt.
What a dumb-ass name for a boat. Typical landlubber...
And burning millions in “fossil fuels” to generate their precious Hydrogen.
While their Captain dumps everyone’s crap all over the world’s ports.
Disgusting. No class. No elegance. No respect. No seamanship.
Liberals: feasting on misery, their product is destruction and vainglory.
It takes energy to separate the oxygen and hydrogen in water. You get that energy back when you recombine them (minus lost energy in conversion process). The hydrogen as used is simply a storage of energy obtained elsewhere.
He can buy 50 of them if he wants.
And those pictures are really freakin cool.
This vessel will be used for corporate entertainment and other tax deductible purposes. People who really love the sea buy sailboats.
Does it come with a white cat?
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