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%.
  • mindbleach@lemmy.world
    132·
    10 months ago

    Jevon’s paradox says this might not help. If shipping gets faster, cheaper, and cleaner, because ships get free power on top of their engines - are we likely to do less of it?

    • Apathy Tree@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      10·
      10 months ago

      Are we likely to do less of it careening off the cliff, though? Because nothing has slowed it yet…

      Besides, I feel like the maintenance and, probably, management of it would require a separate fund so it might not be cheaper for the shipper, but hopefully cheaper than the fines for not implementing it (assuming we stick with capitalism which… meh, we shouldn’t anyway, it’s pretty exhausted at this point)