User:Ecochallengers

ECOchallengers is an organisation co-founded by Richard George and Rory Power to promote low carbon and high efficiency marine technology within high profile challenges. The first challenge created by the organisation is the development of 'ECOchallenger', a high efficiency vessel (HEV), designed to break the famous Blue Riband Record for the fastest crossing of the Atlantic Ocean from New York's Amrbrose Light to the Bishops Rock Light House, traditionally the westernmost tip of the United Kingdom. The crossing target distance is 3106 miles in a target time of less than 53 hours; a record set by Destriero in 1992. Destriero, however, was not awarded Hales Trophy by the Hales Trophy Trustees due to the fact that the vessel was not commercial and designated a private yacht. ECOchallenger is being designed and constructed using a measured low carbon supply chain business methodology. The opportunity being presented to industry is that innovating highly efficient processes and incorporating the very latest applications in composite materials, electronics and marine engineering is the most effective way of developing sustainable processes and reducing the long term levels of CO2 and other negatively impacting greenhouse gases.