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01.10.2021 06:00 AM
Cargo ships pump millions of tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. From 2022, some will swap fossil fuels for wind power
Imagine that the cup of coffee in your hand was transported all the way from Colombia not on a giant, polluting container ship, but by a sturdy sailing vessel using only wind power.
Thats the vision of TransOceanic Wind Transport (TOWT), a small cargo company based in France which is now scaling up to transport tens of thousands of tonnes per year.
Founded in 2011, TOWT has already transported over 1,000 tonnes of cargo across the ocean using small sailing ships. Now, the company is in the process of building four larger sail ships, which will travel on four maritime routes between Europe and destinations including New York, Guadeloupe, Brazil and the Ivory Coast. The maiden voyage of the first ship is planned for late 2022.
Wind is abundant, it's powerful, it's now predictable, says Guillaume Le Grand, co-founder and chief executive of TOWT. And sail is the best way to actually harness it and to move heavy haul over long distances.
More:
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/wind-powered-cargo-ships
marble falls
(57,204 posts)PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)PortTack
(32,793 posts)SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)is a dead giveaway.
I got into sailing after my divorce. OPBS, for the first 10 years or so, but being a deck ape was a great way to learn the art of sailing.
I owned a J-35 for 17 years, but the innovations in sailing turned what was (at the time) a fast boat into a garbage barge. As my body and health deteriorated with advanced age, sailing got put on the shelf along with other young men's pursuits.
But I'll always have the memories, and good lord are there a lot of fond memories from that period of my life. I'm quite confident you know exactly what I'm talking about.
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)during the oil crises.
None of them got too far.
SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)of instant gratification, shipping goods by sailing vessel is a very slow way to transport anything. Extremely satisfying, but slow.
Duppers
(28,127 posts)All ships should.
keithbvadu2
(36,906 posts)Last commercial sailing ship around Cape Horn 1949
ShazzieB
(16,513 posts)"I must go down to the seas again
To the lonely sea and the sky,
And all I ask is a tall ship
And a star to steer her by..."
from Sea Fever by John Masefield
TomWilm
(1,832 posts)The brigantine Tres Hombres was built in 1943 and then fully restored in order to sail in transatlantic engine-less freight service - and just passed my country with goods for the twelfth time. The visited me before they started the project for some sparring, though I am not a big sailor myself .
https://fairtransport.eu/tres-hombres/
snpsmom
(684 posts)by Paolo Bacigalupi that starts with Shipbreaker
It's a really interesting dystopian series. In a lot of ways, were already living it.