Wind-Powered Cargo Ship Sets Sail

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During our superbowl party my neighbor from Apple (he brought you the iPhone) was telling me that huge sails are shot up like rockets off the bow of supertankers and that these sails are size of football fields.   He also said bimps wont be coming back but these things are going forward.

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The Bryant Park Project, January 22, 2008 · Welcome to the "green" age of commercial shipping. A German-made cargo ship will soon set sail, literally. The ship will be carried over the water partly by wind power.

The sails are from a German company called SkySails, and they're really more like giant parachutes. Each sail is about the size of a football field.

Adam Weiss, from the Current Science and Technology Department at the Museum of Science in Boston, says the use of these giant sails could revolutionize the commercial shipping industry. Drawing some power from wind could cutting a vessel's use of fossil fuels by 30-35 percent. Over the course of a year, the giant sail could save the shipping firm about $1,600 a day.

Sorry Ocklawaha...but if you squint your eyes and tilt your head to the extreme left it kind of looks like a blimp.

This one already set sail.

[Lunican]

What a crazy new idea...

[Coolyfett]

What happens when the wind stops??

[Coolyfett]

lol