They must be racist. I don't see any black people. How can they possibly succeed.
Guessing that some advances in hull configuration have been made in the last hundred years?
They might use less energy?
The shipyard looks a bit primitive in the photos? Sometimes very low budget is not cost effective.
The large ships make the cost per ton almost nothing. Cost per ton on a nine container ship must be astronomical. But hey, climate change and all
The Bean Counter wiz kids will figure out that the ship could be built cheaper from particle board.
Sailing is relatively cheap as fuel goes, but you’re at the whim of the wind. This won’t catch on very fast, if at all. Sailing is MUCH slower than traditional shipping.
Perhaps we should lift restrictions on the use of nuclear fuel for engines? But no, that’ll never happen. That makes too much sense.
There is nothing futuristic about it.
It is a brand new 19th century sailing ship.
They might want to fill out the bankruptcy papers in advance for this venture.
In the era of wooden ships the men were made of iron.
Ship cinnamon and cardamom "around The Horn" from India at $1000.00 an ounce.
My only solace will be New York and Los Angeles will die first.
Looks great if you are going from NY to NJ on a windy day”-)
SNIP ... Others have more ambitious goals. “There's actually loads of really great innovations happening that could transform [shipping emissions],” says Lucy Gilliam, shipping campaigner at non-profit Transport and Environment. “It's not that we don't have great ideas. The problem that we have is that fossil fuels are still too damn cheap. And we don't have the rules to force people to take up the new technology. We need caps on emissions and polluter pays schemes so that the clean technologies can outcompete fossil fuels.” .../SNIP
They must be racist. I don't see any black people. How can they possibly succeed.
Trump’s fault. Biden will fix the problem, and we can return to the wonderful times of sailing ships and freezing in the dark.
A lot of the old sailing yachts (Classic Plastic) from the 60/70/80 are still crossing the oceans. Very carbon friendly.
Currently looking at Cape Dory 36 for my bug out boat.
Not that there's anything wrong with that...
This is just the beginning. Our new Green Navy will do away with steel hulls, with wooden, sail-driven aircraft carriers and wooden submarines. I guess the crew would have to use pedal power to drive the propeller. I’m sure our adversaries will go easy on us, seeing as we’re trying to save the planet and all.
You have to love the BBC. Did anyone catch this at the bottom of the article?
“”The emissions from travel it took to report this story were 46kg CO2. The digital emissions from this story are an estimated 1.2g to 3.6g CO2 per page view. Find out more about how we calculated this figure here.””
With that being said, more power to these people. Their dime and their time.
It’s foolish to build ships of wood. Even sailing ships.
The same ship could be built of steel for 1/2 the money and 1/4 the time. They would be safer and require less maintenance.
And could be much larger.
It appears that the age of reason and logic has passed./
A few days ago, conservative talk show host John Batchelor interviewed the author of Barons of the Sea: And Their Race to Build the World's Fastest Clipper Ship:
https://www.amazon.com/Barons-Sea-Worlds-Fastest-Clipper-ebook/dp/B075RNR7T9/
I was surprised to hear that the fastest of those ships held speed records that lasted well into the 20th century.
For example, the clipper ship "Flying Cloud" set a record time for sailing from New York to San Francisco: 89 days 8 hours. That record held from 1854 to 1989.