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.
  • ceiphas@feddit.de
    7363·
    3 months ago

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

      • Jake FarmEnglish
        2·
        3 months ago

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

      • Mango@lemmy.world
        419·
        3 months ago

        Sails can be folded away and what do you call those big vertical things in the picture?

          • Mango@lemmy.world
            221·
            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.

              • Mango@lemmy.world
                124·
                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.

    • spujb@lemmy.cafeEnglish
      322·
      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