Sail Powered Shipping Company – EcoClipper – În călătoria inaugurală | Transport verde

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1. 👍👍👍👊👊

2. Original and innovative thinking: Lets go back to horses, oxen, buggies and carts again.

3. Sal

   We're back to the Wackiest Ship in the Army.

   Bob

4. This is why Macy dedicated her life to watching over you! It all started with the loud tropical shirts. Things are getting a little out of hand now…P’nut and Maui are volunteering as Captains for the inaugural MSC transatlantic rowboat crossing…🇺🇸⚓️👅🐾🐾

5. Hey Sal, if they're looking for a slogan, they can have this one: 'Blue water – Green-scam'! Love the show, as ever.

6. The Cutty Sark was a sailing ship tea clipper, bringing fresh tea from China to the UK. It could never use the Suez Canal because the narrow waterway was unsuited to sailing. Therefore it's route via the cape took 110 to 120 days. It did have a maximum cargo weight of 1000 tons.

7. Nice shirt.
   I love your drift-on-current shipping Co. I will send 3 Wednesday burgers …soon.

8. It never ceases to fascinate me then ideas which have been proven obsolete for centuries, somehow now are born anew when governments, run by bureaucrats and politicians, get into the decision path. You have no-doubt heard about the new Boeing biplane? And the true tragedy – the people who run these governments are absolutely doing their no-kidding very best to make the world a better place. Just listen to them.

9. The carbon emitted by the galley alone will be greater, per ton mile, than any of todays giant cargo vessels.

10. Frankly, this is silly. None of the numbers work out. There has been talk of sail powered large container ships for a while. These were typically new designs with modernized sails (look nothing like a 1912 sail ship.

    I can't begin to count the number of green technologies I have seen come and go. I was very involved with these when working on a large project that planned to go off grid. None of these are in operation today. They seemed really interesting, but nothing scaled, which I expect is the case with this sail initiative. One interesting project I reviewed was to produce ethanol from the stubble left over from harvesting corn. I asked a relative who is a corn and soybean farmer about it. He had looked into it, but the amount he would get from collecting up the stubble was less than it cost to do so. This is the typical case. When I was working on my project, I would have the companies in to demonstrate, or at least describe their technology. They often did not have realistic or complete financial projections. When I would express disinterest in the technology they would almost beg to be included. Sometimes it was pathetic.

11. Ports will at least become prettier if nothing else.

12. 🤣 I loved the last segment about MSC😆

13. Great video . Torquay pronounced Tor-key. What are your rates Sal?

14. if the chocolate company used solar charged electric vehicles along with the sail powered ships some people would be willing to pay ccrazy money for a bite size bar of ecochoc

15. You gotta mention the pirates.

    When does MSC go public?

    I thought they tried to put automated sails on cargo and cruise ships about 30yrs ago. Maybe it would be feasible to put sails on the cranes now…

16. Sal years ago a company built a ship that off set fuel power using venturie type sails connected to propulsion not sure what happened to it.fuel crisis times if my memory serves.

17. It was on a north pacific asia boat.

18. Might have been evergreen shipping not sure though.

19. Three TEUs capacity vs. barefoot sailing ship?

20. How do people follow you on Mastodon?

21. so how does this sailing vessel navigate in & out of ports?

22. 30 years ago all the rage was the vertical turbine sails. There were drawings of cargo ships with three masts. Some trials were even done and it slowly died. My question for this vessel of traditional design is how can 5 crew and 5 trainees handle that much rigging? Look up the cargo schooners of the 19th century and early 20th, the crews were larger than that and where are you going to find long term crews. You have to be outside in all conditions. Read "Two Years before the Mast" by Richard Henry Dana.

23. It might serve short haul-specialty coastal deliveries. Everything else however, doesn't make much financial-practical sense. I hope it works in some form…

24. The wokeness of going green is going to kill the world not save it.

25. If things continue on the current trajectory, sail power will be the only option.

26. So all joking aside, this is actually an important step. To be blunt, oil and gas will eventually, one way or another, go away. That leaves wind, solar, and nuclear as options. Nuclear definitely can work, but only for large vessels, and only for organizations that can safeguard the nuclear fuel. Solar can work, but energy density is a problem. Wind is obviously an option – as you pointed out, not in the form factor of an 1800s clipper, but something more akin to a modern ship with sails and/or kites. Finally, we could capture any of the above and use hydrogen or batteries, but energy density and conversion efficiency are factors here. Your joke about throwing cargo overboard and hoping the currents take it where you want it is not as crazy as it sounds: a tracking beacon and commodity that keeps that anyone is willing to buy, and it could work.

27. Nice video.

28. Dumb

29. A cool ship but, I am hoping they don't quite go so far as build these to replace the much-needed increased Military Sealift Command fleet you have been talking about 😯😲🤞🤞😎

30. That was a fun episode!🤣👍

31. I saw a video where in a third world country they loaded a large combine/grain thresher onto a large rowboat using steel channel beams and then off they went. Looked like they were on a lake or calm river. ingenuity at its best.

32. Good luck to the De Tukker crew if the Bay of Biscay throws a tantrum.

33. If you launch your little container boat from Western Europe it won’t drift over to America.
    There is the little matter of the Gulf Stream to contend with…and the prevailing Westerly winds.

34. emssion reduction will ultimately kill the planet

35. So why not make the sails out of solar panels? Probably use it to send container freight to New Zealand, there is probably a container ship tied up at anchor, somewhere, just waiting to be retro fitted, given the engines seem to conk out regularly?

36. 36 trainees……idk……that's only about 3 per oar when the guy starts beating the drum……

37. Pirates are making a come back

38. This sailing vessel company is 'Eco-wanking'. They are not saving the planet, as it uses more material to carry a tiny load. They're in it for the tourist $ and what ever 'green' government and ngo funds they can con. It also is not a ship, as it doesn't have the number of masts of a ship. It's a barque.

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