{"id":759,"date":"2009-10-14T14:59:27","date_gmt":"2009-10-14T22:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=759"},"modified":"2009-10-14T14:59:27","modified_gmt":"2009-10-14T22:59:27","slug":"off-to-sea-the-wizard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/14\/off-to-sea-the-wizard\/","title":{"rendered":"off to Sea the wizard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Holy Neptune! Jumping on the green bandwagon like a beached whale, the boating industry has come up with a dazzling &#8220;24-foot Endeavour Green Electric Hybrid.&#8221; The damn thing runs like a barracuda on &#8220;an electric charge that costs only 11 cents and generates no emissions, kicking into a small diesel generator only if the boat\u2019s eight batteries are depleted.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>At least that&#8217;s what the <em>Christian Science Monitor<\/em> reports in their Environment section (Oct 14, 2009) <\/p>\n<p>Not to be outdone, <a href=\"http:\/\/features.csmonitor.com\/environment\/2009\/10\/14\/earth-talk-hybrid-engines-for-boats\/\">the 25-foot Frauscher hybrid is a speedy $155,000 Austrian-built pleasure boat [combining] an electric engine with a 256 horsepower Steyr diesel motor to allow for emissions-free harbor cruising or high-octane speeding across open water.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>How green can you get? Aqua marine, that is. And all you need is an extra $155,000 to seal the deal. <\/p>\n<p>Hoist the Jolly Neo-Green flag &#8211; we&#8217;re off to sea the wizard!<\/p>\n<p>posted by Mudd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holy Neptune! Jumping on the green bandwagon like a beached whale, the boating industry has come up with a dazzling &#8220;24-foot Endeavour Green Electric Hybrid.&#8221; The damn thing runs like a barracuda on &#8220;an electric charge that costs only 11 cents and generates no emissions, kicking into a small diesel generator only if the boat\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=759"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":762,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759\/revisions\/762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}