all right guys welcome back to eSysman Superyachts welcome back to Italy welcome back to genoa all right so
I just wanted to do an update because i haven't really talked to you guys for a
while and talked about all the things that have happened since i left the UK -- it's been a busy
few weeks i i left the UK - the Monday what was that would have been the 20th of September
heading for Monaco for the Monaco Yacht Show i drove my car from the down to Monaco
overnight we arrived in nice the following day got to these late at night and then the very
next morning i went to Monaco and i did the Monaco Yacht Show as you've probably seen on my channel
if you want to see actually the trip down i made a video on my other channel: "eSysman Tech"
of the trip down it was quite a good trip - so if you want to see that i'll post a link in the
normal places and if you haven't seen my Monaco Yacht Show Videos then what are you doing ?
- After i posted one of the videos i posted an interior tour of a boat called K584
and afterwards the video didn't do as well as i thought it might - and i posted a comment on the
channel -on your youtube channel- asking people to tell me why they they didn't watch it or why they
didn't feel like it did as it didn't do as well as it should have done- i neglected to post the actual
name of the video that i was talking about -but once i posted a link to the video got
some great feedback from everybody so thanks to everybody uh for the feedback even though i didn't
like some of it - it's always good to hear what people are thinking - so thanks very much for
that - - i understand that and it's flattering as well to know that people would prefer to have seen
me talking on camera about the vessel that i was showing - it's just that i didn't know the vessel
and the person who was on the boat with me just happened to be the owner of the company who built
it so i thought who better to talk about this vessel -the plan was to talk to the chief engineer
and to go through the engine room and some of the technical stuff and unfortunately because
of the weather issues that we had because of the time constraints i was on board for 3 hours
but because of the weather during that time the chief engineer was busy and so on and so forth and
we couldn't we never got to do it unfortunately but possibly in the future i might be able to
revisit that but anyway thanks very much for everybody who gave me that feedback .
so after the "Monaco Yacht Show" the day after the "Monaco Yacht Show" as you've seen in my last video
i left that area Nice Port where i was based and i drove to Italy to Genoa to go back
to my primary job and that's where i am now i'm back in Italy and it's been
interesting - the weather has been really bad here a lot of rain - luckily i'm on a boat
anyway moving on to the subject of this video is a couple of days ago i was working and i saw
this vessel arriving and it had written on the side of - it was that it was a hybrid and
it was it was a roll-on roll-off ferry and it was it said hybrid and it said zero emissions in port
so basically this vessel this huge vessel it's probably like the equivalent of like a 40,000
ton cruise ship or something like that and it was i believe it was coming up from Sardinia
and it was boasting that it had a hybrid system on board and that it had zero emissions whilst in
port and it made me think about this subject it's quite a contentious subject whenever
i mention something being eco-friendly when it's such a big vessel or something like that
but what you have to think about is i know there's going to be a lot of comments
about from people saying that it's impossible for a ship to be eco-friendly and stuff like that
but is it i mean in you know in our lifetime it's unlikely that we'll ever see a vessel of this size
or that thing that just went past fully electric and fully you know zero emissions in terms of
burning fuel to move now one of the arguments you always have is well it's not eco-friendly
because they have to build the batteries and the batteries have to use lithium mining and stuff and
i understand that perfectly but once the vessel is built if it's burning fuel all the time then it's
it's continuing to pollute right so once the best vessel is built if this vessel was built and it
was completely electric and it didn't make any emissions throughout its lifetime that's better
they're not doing that and burning fuel all the time right unless the construction
of it exceeds the amount of fuel that you might burn in that lifetime which is unlikely
but what you've got to remember is that by a vessel like a roll-on roll-off ferry saying that
it has zero emissions whilst in port is a start right it's heading in that direction now a lot of
people like i said a lot of people especially when i talk about super yachts saying it's impossible
for it to be eco-friendly -but you know 20 years ago there was this crazy person who built this
lotus and he put batteries in it and he took a lotus car took the engine out put batteries in it
and he tried to sell it and then he put it on "Top Gear" and "Top Gear" said this is crazy it's
faster than a straight line but it's unreliable and stuff like that and that person was Elon Musk
and that was his first car right and now look at where he's gone when he's taken that idea it's
become you know the most successful electric car and i'm not saying that the electric car the ev
or the Tesla zero emissions it is once it's built obviously there's there's a lot of stuff
that's going on whilst it's being built but it's going in that the right direction right and that
roll-on roller ferry that pictures that you've just seen is the same thing it's going in the
right direction and this is what i'm trying to get across is that these vessels whilst they
are polluters they are trying to make them more efficient and less polluting and in the future
hopefully we will get to a point where they are clean anyway guys i'm gonna leave it there -
but let me know what you think of this roll-on roller vessel - Do you think it's possible for
this to be considered to be more eco-friendly than one that is pumping out emissions all the time?
Let me know in the comments anyway guys and thanks very much and i'll see you soon bye
bye