This could be a big deal.
launched by the China Merchant Energy Shipping companyAnd with great results: the four 130-foot masts cut down the supertanker's fuel consumption by an impressive 9.8 percent, the company says, proving once and for all that relying on strong wind currents to cross our planet's oceansThe vessel looks nothing like the sailing ships of old.
An autonomous computer system monitors the current conditions and continually adjusts the angles of these sails to make the best use of available air currents.that the sail system could save over 2,900 tons of carbon dioxide emissions when travelling from the Middle East to China.It's not the first time we've heard of the use of rigid sails to reduce fuel consumption.
But, as is the case with many other concepts like it over the last decade or so, EMP's zero emission ship has yet to be built. Which makes the new supertanker all the more impressive — after all, something already being used is more impressive than any far off concept. Sure, the ship is still designed to carry around two million barrels of environmentally damaging fossil fuels. But at the very least, this is a step in the right direction.
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