Giant kites could pull ships across the ocean – and slash their carbon emissions | CNN
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French company Airseas has developed the Seawing, a kite to help propel cargo ships, which it says could cut their carbon emissions by an average of 20%.
  • Apathy TreeOPEnglish
    8•1 year ago

    Personally I would assume because it’s a pain in the ass to maintain, when fossil fuels are less so and not presently heavily penalized.

    I mean really, wind was the original seafaring option, so we already know it can be harnessed that way, but the current capitalist framework rewards doing things cheap at the expense of the planet.

    Cargo ships use real bad fuels, anything would help, it just needs to be required or cheaper than polluting alternatives.

    • @Ilovethebomb
      1•1 year ago

      Having technology like this to reduce fuel emissions is a great solution, but the market wouldn’t accept cargo vessels that will show up whenever, depending on on the wind.