Giant kites could pull ships across the ocean – and slash their carbon emissions | CNN
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French company Airseas has developed the Seawing, a kite to help propel cargo ships, which it says could cut their carbon emissions by an average of 20%.
  • Lamy@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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    1 year ago

    I once heard of a giant kite technology like this called “sails” but it was retired in favor of fossil fules

    • Dislodge3233@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      Kites are more efficient. For one they can be much larger, but you can also put them at angles that you can’t operate a sail at.