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[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

incidentally, I started a bid to attract orcas to cape breton

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Nice. Will you be outfitting them with pointed steel battering rams that they can grasp with their mouths?

I mean, letโ€™s be kind to the Parasite Class, and shorten the terror they experience before they meet their watery deaths.

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Smith says attracting superyachts is a small part of a broader strategy aimed at getting more boaters to come to the region. And he challenged the argument that superyacht owners represent the worst kind of polluters.

โ€œI donโ€™t agree with that,โ€ said Smith, whose non-profit organization gets most of its budget from a levy charged to those who pay for accommodations in Cape Breton, as well the provincial and federal governments. โ€œThere are electric superyachts now. I think weโ€™re going to see a transformation in them in terms of cleaner fuels and cleaner ways of operating.โ€

But where does power generation come from in Nova Scotia?

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Let alone the vast amount of resources that go into producing and maintaining a superyacht. There's more to something's environmental footprint than its fuel source.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Not to mention the absolute dearth of actual electric super yachts. It's an industry pipe dream

[โ€“] [email protected] -4 points 10 months ago (4 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

So build a wind powered superyacht. Oh wait, they've done that for thousands of years!

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Tell me you know nothing about NS in 3 words or less:

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Ideally it would but like the other commenter said that's not even a quarter of it.