An age of greener, more efficient shipping may be in the offing as a specially modified 43,000-tonne bulk freighter completes a six-month sea trial using a combination of diesel engines and a set of high-tech automatic sails to catch the wind.
  • @[email protected]
    10•3 months ago

    Wow… The innovation… Sails on ships… Next they add wheels to sleighs, These nerdy bastards

    • macOP
      37•3 months ago

      Rather than usual sails these are solid and foldable and act more like plane wings

      • Jake FarmEnglish
        2•3 months ago

        I mean sails form an aerofoil but these are ridged aerofoils.

    • @[email protected]
      35•3 months ago

      Its actually better than sails as they can be folded away and there are no masts That could hinder the ship driving under a bridge.

        • @[email protected]
          13•3 months ago

          Sails cannot be folded away, they can be rolled in, this however doesn’t change the hight of the mast they are on. Also the weight/drag ratio seems to be better.

          • @[email protected]
            -19•3 months ago

            We can’t find fabric anymore? Shit. And I suppose we can’t collapse a mast the way these guys collapse a mast if there’s fabric involved. Oh well.

              • @[email protected]
                -23•3 months ago

                Bro do you really think that? 🤣🤣🤣🤣

                We have dramatically better flexible teenage materials than any metal you can think of. Ever heard of kevlar? That’s only the cheapest and most well known example too! Don’t tell me you’re not embarrassed to have said that shit.

    • @[email protected]English
      30•3 months ago

      lowkey tired of being able to guess the exact snarky deadpan top comment before opening the post

      no hate to you commenter. :) its a funny comment and the world is fucked i just wish we could for once be genuinely happy and celebrate that engineers are helping us do better