Performance of a hybrid-powered glass boat to innovate depopulated areas

地域イノベーションを目的とするハイブリッド・グラスボートの性能

Performance of a hybrid-powered glass boat to innovate depopulated areas

Creators Mihara Yoshinori

Creators Ishimitsu Kousuke

Creators Yamaguchi Shinya

Creators Koga Eishi

Creators Shimazu Yuki

Creators Uchida Makoto

Creators Fujimoto Masaaki

The depopulation of Japanese local areas by aging has been quickly going. Suo-Oshima-cho where the Oshima National College of Maritime Technology is located in is not also exception. The population was 65,000 in 1947 and became 19,000 in August, 2010. A gregarious area of peculiar corals to East Asia was discovered recently in the sea area around Suo-Oshima. The scale is 40m×20m, and it is world maximum grade. It is said the influence of greenhouse effect by CO2. However the authors regard the discovery of peculiar corals as a good opportunity to increase tourists by the coral sightseeing, and completed to improve a conventional fishing boat to a hybrid-powered glass boat. In this paper, the summary and the erformance are reported.

[ISSN]0387-9232

[NCID]AN00031668