What do you think of wind powered cargo ships?

What do you think of wind powered cargo ships?

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Wanna go across Pacific Ocean by that ship

It would make me useless, fortunately it wont happen.

Looks a lot like the eco cargo ships from Anno 2070, apart from the sails...

you mean sailboats?

Just like the project to bring back the airships
Fucking why?

Its the 17th century again?

Instead of distracting virtue signalling bullshit like the Paris Accord, wind powered cargo ships would actually solve a lot of problems with climate change. The 15 largest cargo ships burn as much fuel as all cars on the planet. All fuckin cars. Every single country's cars.

Guess what was exempted from the Paris Accord? Cargo ships. Globalists can rape the planet to death by shipping goods on the ocean, burning disgusting heavy fuel oil into the atmosphere, yet plebs at home have to spend their own money (well, unless you live in Norway) on eco-friendly cars and use more expensive forms of energy at their workplaces.

Climate change needs to be tackled at the point of largest polluters, in the activities that cause the most pollution. This means specifying China, the USA, the EU, and India. And this means specifying ocean trade and coal.

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just one container ship I worked on burned 20 tons of bunker a day.

Trips nice
The Paris agreement was trash, we all know it doesn't do enough, but it was an important first step, but looks like the us likes to run back into the deeper shit pit

wouldn't it be super slow and wind-dependant?

>but it was an important first step,
That's its weakness. You know as well as I do that the moment it was settled, business magnates would say "pack it in boys" and proceed to do nothing. Then 20-30 years from now after the planet bakes up another 1-3C degrees, people will ask the business magnates "why didn't you do anything???" and they'll just say "we passed the Paris Accord, what else did you want us to do?"

Climate change treaties need teeth. Specifically, they need to be backed by a military. It's obvious sanctions aren't a good system, just look at Russia and how Germany cheats the sanctions with Nordstream and other projects. If you pollute, you get invaded.

It costs less fuel and just a little bit more time (circa 10%) to reach a destination

Safe Hybrid Hydrogen Airships are a better alternative.

Total costs will be less than with a regular ship

people made ships like a thousand years ago that were already unreliant on the wind thanks to their brilliant sail design

It will be wind-dependent, but common routes like Amsterdam-New York won't be a problem. That route has been used by wind powered ships for centuries

>checked out the website
>they identify as frysians
RRREEEEEEE JUST CREDIT THE ENTIRE NETHERLANDS.
FUCK FRYSIAN NATIONALISM

At least they put a Dutch flag on their concept
youtube.com/watch?v=97iPnPtdwQw

Once using similar wind powered ships seems more cost effective than the current cargo ships more companies will stop using those.

>Dutch are about to the rule the sea again
NO
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

I think it sucks because it was made in holland

Interesting...

"Release the hussars!"

THIS !
it feels good to witness a knowledgeable american in these matters. Energy and climate change aren't discussed enough.

I hope so

let's see if you can get triggered more

muh heritage is glorious Frisian from Harlingen in 1660, a spur-maker
this means I'm 15/60 Frisian and 0/60 dutch (lowercase d)

It would make more sense to have a cargo ship that ran off of seawater

if there is anything the dutch do good, it's blowing wind.

should just add sail systems to existing ships and save fuel with em when it doesn't cost time.

Is that the reason why Poland decided to attack tanks with their cav?
Good snatch and grab though France.

so, batteries, solar panels and a hydrogen engine?

acting decisively works wonders sometimes

but it needs wind and can't decide the route and time since intensity and some times direction of wind blown is very unpredictable.

why are poos so based

Do they come with wind powered pirate ships?

What about Rolls-Royce's remote control cargo ships?

youtube.com/watch?v=vg0A9Ve7SxE

We can do a little hybrid system.
50% Wind and 50% diesel .

Aren't most big cargo ships automated anyway? With captains standing by to make sure everything is smooth?

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>The 15 largest cargo ships burn as much fuel as all cars on the planet
sounds like a facebook meme
show some numbers

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This is quite obviously the next step, more autonomy for cargo ships and other naval vessels with less risk to the crew.

Easy way to spike popularity would be if you tell the Chinese that they can stop buying fuel with these.
They won't care about the extra month on a delivery of electronics.

They emit as much sulphur as all cars, not CO2.

>Cargo ships
>White

>muh climate change!!!1!!1!

Well, we still have the largest port of the western world and I doubt this new method will change that.

Also, mostly because of a fluke in the law. Basically in international waters no country can tell them to be clean, so they start burning the most disgusting sludge. Then they change to cleaner fuel when they are approaching a port.

Surely this is satire

dutch smoking meth again
how will that fit here?
also they look slow. nuclear powered would be better

Too much manpower needed, why not nuclear?

My god is whisper still around i thought it died in 2016. I got banned because some girl was offering sex for money and I wanted to know more but refused it so she bitched to an admin about it.

>Capitalism is a great ideolo-

kinda eh, why sacrifice cargo space and time

Why are germanics so ingenious and inventive lads

>we wuz germanics n shiieet

theguardian.com/environment/2009/apr/09/shipping-pollution

Source is "Confidential data from maritime industry insiders based on engine size and the quality of fuel typically used by ships and cars shows that just 15 of the world's biggest ships may now emit as much pollution as all the world's 760m cars." so it depends on whether you trust John Vidal @ The Guardian

Also this data is from 2009. The number of cars and ships may have changed then. China's middle class has grown a lot, and so has their car pool, but it's predicated on their export economy, which is the ship pool. I'd imagine the data is 1:1 for 2017 for that reason, but I could be wrong

hoo boy, i'd like to tap that cutty sark