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[โ€“] match@pawb.social 19 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] rekabis@lemmy.ca 3 points 8 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€“] can@sh.itjust.works 13 points 8 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?

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€“] hypnotoad__@lemmy.ml 5 points 8 months ago

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

[โ€“] Nomecks@lemmy.ca -4 points 8 months ago (4 children)
[โ€“] baconisaveg@lemmy.ca 7 points 8 months ago

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

[โ€“] alabasterhotdog@lemmy.ca 5 points 8 months ago

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

[โ€“] can@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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