Yanmar Starts Biodiesel Cogenerator Testing with Takashima City




Two projects sponsored by Yanmar are to start on Jan. 6, 2007. One is Ukyo Katayama team challenging the Paris-Dakar Rally with a car fueled by 100% bio-diesel fuel. The other is the great voyage of Hokule'a, a traditional canoe sail boat, setting sail from Hawaii all the way to Japan.
Euromilhöes Lisboa Dakar Rally 2007 to Start Lisbon, Portugal on Jan. 6, 2007. The team led by Ukyo Katayama, ex-F1 driver, sponsored by Yanmar, goes in the Euromilhöes Lisboa Dakar Rally 2007 (more commonly Paris-Dakar Rally), which covers ground of about 10,000km in two weeks starting on Jan.6 next year. Ukyo Katayama's team will challenge the rally with a land cruiser fueled with 100% bio-diesel fuel refined from waste vegetable oil. About 400 cars content in the punitive rally for a distance of about 10,000km from Lisbon, Portugal to Morocco, Sahara dessert, Mauritania, Mali and Dakar, Senegal.
Hokule'a (the Star of Happiness) sets sail from Hawaii on Jan. 6, 2007 and sails to Majuro, Ponape, Truk, Satawal, Yap, Palau and to Japan. The total sailing distance will reach 7,140 miles (ll,500km). The relation between Japan and Hawaii dates back to the days of Kingdom of Hawaii, when considerable number of Japanese immigrants crossed the sea to Hawaii. Many Polynesians, too, migrated to Hawaii from old times. Hokule'a is a canoe sail boat based on the old canoes used by those immigrants to Hawaii. Hokule'a, without employing any modern sailing devices including marine charts, compass, etc., is planned to sail only using the knowledge of stars, clouds and the sun. In view of the likelihood of encountering adverse winds and storms, Hokule'a will be accompanies by an escort boat called Kamahele. The main engine of Kamahele, selected by the master seafarers, is a highly reliable Yanmar marine engine.

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Two projects sponsored by Yanmar are to start on Jan. 6, 2007. One is Ukyo Katayama team challenging the Paris-Dakar Rally with a car fueled by 100% bio-diesel fuel. The other is the great voyage of Hokule'a, a traditional canoe sail boat, setting sail from Hawaii all the way to Japan.

Two projects sponsored by Yanmar are to start on Jan. 6, 2007.
One is Ukyo Katayama team challenging the Paris-Dakar Rally with a car fueled by 100% bio-diesel fuel. The other is the great voyage of Hokule'a, a traditional canoe sail boat, setting sail from Hawaii all the way to Japan.