How to Design a Sailing Ship for the 21st Century?
solar.lowtechmagazine.com
It is surprisingly difficult to build a carbon neutral sailing ship. This is even more the case today, because our standards for safety, health, hygiene, comfort, and convenience have changed profoundly since the Age of Sail.
  • Budwig_v_1337hoven [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Why not drag a bunch of solar panels? Could even naturally water-cool them for extra efficiency screm-cool

    Interesting read though, very cool that people are out there, building ships like that. That whole rowing-machine aside was pretty funny too

    • Vampire [any]
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      1 year ago

      the whole site is really good, I like his way of exploring technologies