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Sailboat Drone Sucks . . . Oil
Motherboard TV: Upgrade: Building Robot Sailboats to Suck Up Oil Spills | Motherboard
Makes me want to open up my wallet... This is my type of environmentalism
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Re: Sailboat Drone sucks----oil
good luck but it is worthless. I was out there and
power
boats
could not get the
oil
up, kevin costners had problems,,, The Whale from overseas could not do it. They are testing on
diesel
oil
that is refined. That is very different than crude oil.
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