e – for Electricity using Renewable Energy and creating 0% Air Pollution as recommended by the UN.
e – for Environment Friendly operation
e – for Technology Supported Learning, Training and Skills Development, using Robotics and IT enhanced education.
Following its philosophy of introducing cutting-edge technology to Mauritius – with the help of UNESCO – and presenting it to the government as well as to eventual potential users (a case in point was the introduction of CAD for textiles which has now been successfully adopted by the largest textile companies), SPES, which celebrates its 53th anniversary this year, has been working on a three-pronged approach for its 21st Century project following the UN recommendations of 0% AIR POLLUTION and the use of renewable energy.
No plastic will be used on board as water will come from an off-grid Atmospheric Water Collector - Zero Mass Water “SOURCE” - placed on the roof of our building. Metal, glass or bio-degradable gourds will be filled and supplied to the students. Bio-degradable utensils will be used for the food.
This will bring the SPES Accelerated Literacy program as well as other civic education projects to all corners of the island concentrating on under-privileged areas. ICT and Robotics will be used.
The project will provide work for locals, using a timber frame coated with resin. This 30-seater motorized platform will have light, high performance solar panels set on its roof to fully charge the batteries and the two electric outboard motors supplied by the German firm “Torqeedo” – World Leaders in the market.
“Folkloric Explorer” will be used to run Historical & Care for the Environment Cruises in the Grand Port area for overseas visitors and locals alike, including “Floating School Classes”. It is designed to run close to shore (with a shallow draft of only 30 cms.) and proceed very slowly as the public listen to the historical storytelling by an expert of the region’s heritage assets. …the cradle of the country’s colonisation.
It will be operated by an NGO (Pointe Jérôme Sailing School) – also founded by the Séneque brothers – whose coach has been trained at the prestigious School of the Sea “Les Glénans”, in France. It specializes in getting under-privileged and vulnerable kids from 8 to 15 y.o away from the temptations of the street by teaching them the discipline of sailing. PJSC has been operating for the last 10 years and has worked with hundreds of kids.
This e-Boat will be unique in the region and will show that technology to replace pollution producing petrol engines and single-use plastic garbage does exist. It should positively influence local and other regional governments…indeed universal ones.
This innovative product will be the first of its kind in the region as it tackles the problems of POLLUTION at many levels.
