Ok the fact that this tech is being used to shovel piles of new cars around is not that solarpunk, but the technology itself certainly is.
Really cool, what’s old is new again.
It is also cool how practical and actionable this tech seems to be, implementation is moving fast now in this area.
One might even say it is amusing how much this technology both is and isn’t a pipe dream.
I like it, but honestly I’m skeptical. I mean we’re talking a couple of wings moving metric tons! I’m guessing the ship starts of on engines and once it reaches the speed, the sails take over? I mean competition sails push really light crafts…not heavy ass bricks like this.
Nah it isn’t the main propulsion, it is opportunistic and reduces fuel costs, the efficiency gains add up very quickly however.
Ah, that makes sense… We should build inflatable blimps on planes too now…that would save fuel and ticket cost too. Just fantasizing.
Tall ships <3
This and solar zepplins please
solar zepplins
maybe it’s just a dream but I really hope it happens at one point in the future…
If you were to give someone from the 1800s a newspaper clipping from modern day, I feel like this might be the one to give. They’d understand maybe just enough of the words to be thoroughly perplexed.
Obviously, they’d be confused by cars and everything, but they could probably be told, “like a carriage but futuristic.” I just don’t think they could understand, “we are trying to put sails on boats to cross the ocean”
I misread the title as Cat Carrier. I’m so disappointed 😞
Very interesting. So no more canvas. Instead sails of the future will be like tall blinds that rotate and tilt.
