LOL
Solar sail?
Cruising to Mars, maybe?
How big is the conventionally powered tug that will accompany it?
Imagine that vessel with 4,000 people on board caught in a storm.
zero emission.
Perhaps one day I’ll change my FR nickname to Deep in the Hurtigruten Cruise.
Yeah, sign me up for a cruise on that one. /s
From Wikipedia:
Average annual [Norwegian] hydropower generation capacity in 2019 was around 131 TWh, about 95% of total electricity production.
Of the total production in 2011 of 128 TWh; 122 TWh was from hydroelectric plants, 4795 GWh was from thermal power, and 1283 GWh was wind generated. In the same year, the total consumption was 114 TWh. Hydro production can vary 60 TWh between years, depending on amount of precipitation, and the remaining hydro potential is about 34 TWh.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_Norway
sounds like that eleven days will be 6 months stranded at sea
A three-hour tour ... a three-hour tour ...
while the passengers 4-5K of them would continue daily demand,and how about the engines/ ridiculous idea. Imagine the next lockdown pandemic trapped on a stranded solar battery bank.
The battery quality control had better be extraordinary.
Far more batteries than a Tesla means more fire risk.
Compartmentalization of the batteries might help.
I suspect the existing ships will be sold off to other countries and will continue to emit CO2.
How much horse power aka Megawatts does a ship that size need to operate? Not only the engines need the power but also all the electrical and electronic used by the crew and passengers. What plans do they have when the ship hits a Lollapalooza of a storm and they can’t get out of the was in time?
I don’t think the article makes clear that these are experimental design plans for a possible vehicle and that their existing small fleet of ships are conventional in design. Get back to us when it is built and running successfully at a profit?
I look forward to laughing in a few years when a news story appears about this ship being stranded during a cloudy spell and needing to get towed back to port.
Those solar sails are vestigial, about as useless as an infected appendix. What a scam.
Better be sure to have enough tow cables aboard.
Should be fun in a hurricane.
That's for a a small cruise ship. And they have a backup engine in which they'll burn "green fuels"
Ironically most cruise ships are powered by electric engines/pods. Without longer floating extension cords, diesel generators are necessary. I suppose they could use solar or battery recharged in ports, but I wonder the impact heavy batteries necessary would have on speed and fuel consumption. And most of that electricity consumed in port is generated how?
Their circumstance is a bit different cruising in Scandanavia. Long days in summer, probably their busiest cruise season. Lot of renewable energy in Norway too. Ignoring the fact that it's 90% plus hydro which plenty of greens hate.