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A cargo ship with 123-foot ‘WindWing’ sails has just departed on its maiden voyage (www.popsci.com)

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Retrofitted with 123-foot ‘WindWings,' 'Pyxis Ocean' is testing two giant sails on its six-week journey from China to Brazil.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Cool. It seems odd to me that we're just now going back to wind powered boats, surely there was a reason we didn't before?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

They said in the video, that it isn't easy to decarbonize maritime industry. So I think it stayed like that because burning hydrocarbons is easiest.

Looking at logs on those wings, I noticed EU logo there. So it looks like they are trying this because they got government money for this project and likely if not for that this work likely wouldn't happen.