Folks, this story is not from The Onion or any version of sarcastic media. This is very real.
To meet the compliance standards of the Paris Climate Accords and the subsequent treaty that all EU nations agreed to, they must reduce carbon emissions in freight and transit systems. They have spent thousands of hours pouring over possible solutions and will begin the test phase next month.
Bloomberg News – At the start of next year, the Ville de Bordeaux, a 154-meter-long ship that moves aircraft components for Airbus SE, will unfurl a 500 square meter kite on journeys across the Atlantic Ocean. It will undergo six months of trials and tests before full deployment.
While the industry has come up with multiple decarbonization initiatives, it is struggling to keep pace with goals set out under the Paris Agreement on climate. There’s also pressure on shipping lines from large customers who are pressing to make their own supply chains less polluting. (read more)
Yes my friends, the extremely well educated scientists, physicists, climatologists, sustainability engineers and cross functional decarbonization problem solvers for the planetary saving climate justice agenda, have invented…. wait for it….
….Sailboats!
Kon -Tiki.
Yes, the theory espoused there has been widely determined to be false.
They drifted off course quite a bit. I don’t know what theory they were espousing. Oh well.
Heyerdahl hypothesized a South American (Peruvian) origin for the Polynesians. He built Kon Tiki to demonstrate that given the boat technology of their day, ancient South American people could sail across and colonize the Pacific islands. Although the Kon Tiki was sea worthy and made it to inhabited islands in Polynesia, his theories of South Americans colonizing the Pacific don’t pan out.
I see. Thanks!
Heyerdal did similar expeditions with Ra, Ra II (the Ra started to sink, expedition aborted), and Tigris.
He demonstrated that using the boat technology of the day (papyrus reed boats) ancient cultures from Mesopotamia, Indian subcontinent, Polynesia, and the Americas could have made contact and possibly engaged in commerce.
The only difference is, he took a radio, sextant, and some other modern tools with him. The boats were ancient tech though.
His books and documentaries are worth a read/view.
They took this from Water World LMAO
Yes, we will reduce speed from 24 knots to 3 knots. That means we will need 8 times as many ships!
Just think how many sailors will be employed! Just stay out of the doldrums and you will be OK. And keep your storm jibs and sea anchors handy in case you run into bad weather that you can no longer out run. This should do wonders for insurance rates.
NUCLEAR POWERED SHIPS WORK FINE, PARTICULARLY REALLY BIG ONES LIKE CONTAINER SHIPS.
See also: https://newatlas.com/shipping-pollution/11526/
LOL – Remind me; why did we stop using sailboats and start using engines?
But this time……….
If we keep regressing to the past, we will soon believe the world is once again flat.
Some of them already believe that if you put enough people on an island it’ll sink. Lunacy…
To be fair the moron DID NOT SAY IT WOULD SINK! What he said was that it might tip over!
That moron is Hank Johnson, lest anyone forget… lol
Guam will Capsize and Tip Over into the ocean Hank Johnson – YouTube
Or tip over.
Hey Bert don’t joke around like that and confuse demorats and progressives any more then they already are. Of course the worlds is still flat! Have you never heard of a level? Next thing you will start joking around that women can have penis’s. Common man.
I volunteer to sail it and HER off the edge of the world!
I suggest these idiots read Patrick O’Brian’s maritime series about the British Navy in the early 1800’s. The wind doesn’t always blow in the direction you want to go.
If you thought the supply chain is an issue now, if this is implemented, we will be waiting for 6 months to get something across the ocean.
Liberals are nothing if not inefficient.
And that picture looks straight out of Babylon, if you ketch my drift.
Everything was done backwards and the worst way in the Liberal Democratic mass murdering Soviet Union. They are trying to recreate it here. Many Red Diaper Babies in positions of power & influence. Many Soviet refugees here as well.
The 1800’s were wonderful; If we just knew how to live with that technology without causing a disaster of
a 90% die off in population. Between the Vax, the Green, and the Supply Chain it should work out just fine for the NWO.
I see what you did there, Palafox – you didn’t think that would sloop by without a comment, did you? Yawl have a good day!
Regressives are “drifting” into obsolescence.
Columbus was headed for India (“Indies”,”Indians”). Then he caught wind of…
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Fierce storms in the Pacific. Huge waves…..
After crewing on sailboats and crossed the Gulf of Mexico AT NIGHT time no less…these morons are going to find out the hard way that customers WILL NOT BE PUTTING UP WITH DELAYED ITEMS they needed yesterday. To return to using Wind, Wind Sails, Wind Turbines, etc, etc…is a WHOLE BUNCH OF MALARKY…(being nice…it’s almost Christmas and I don’t want to be naughty…)
Or a all!
Stuck upon the sea
without forward motion
Like a painted ship ….
Upon a painted ocean.
Rhyme Of The Ancient Mariner
They called them them ‘ horse latitudes ‘ , where the doldrums were , horses go over the side to lighten the ship.
These people are simpletons and morons.
They are Watermelons.
Or, er, Watermorons?
But they’re in charge of stuff. and they’re in places of authority, neither of which occurred in the old days when we also had simpletons and morons aplenty.
unbelievable……what’s next……a round wheel?
You have to admit, nobody can come close to Sundance when it comes to Sarcasm. His line at the end of the article takes the cake: They have invented SAILBOATS.
Yeah, thank God I wasn’t drinking my coffee when I read that!!
I laughed my ass off and told my husband, “see, you can’t make this crap up!”
They are the dumbest and most evil people on the face of the planet!
LGBFJB
Technically it is a kiteboat. Or something.
The picture is of a large spinnaker sail, used only infrequently when the wind is from dead astern. It is the slowest of sails, because you cannot go faster than the wind.
No, it isn’t like a spinnaker because it isn’t directly attached to hard points on the vessel.
I haven’t taken the time to look at this particular design but am thinking back to when I was an avid flyer of high performance stunt kites. I had a ram-air parafoil kite on two lines that I could control by pulling on one line or the other. By steering the kite back and forth at just above ground level, it would be traveling through the air at a surprisingly high speed. That speed over the airfoil shaped kite generated an even more surprising amount of lift…and that life was forward and not up. Those two control lines were each 200 lb. test Kevlar, and I broke one of them once. (Note: I weighed about 240 at the time.) Also, this kind of performance does not require the wind to be directly at your back. No, you couldn’t sail into the wind as you can with a fore-and-aft rigged ship, but you’ve got a good 45° either way before useful thrust peters out.
Whether this cargo ship boost setup is anything like what I just described, I don’t know. But conceptually it could provide enough thrust to lower fuel costs and/or shorten transit time, both of which are high priorities in the shipping business.
I expect this will end up as only a pipe dream when the real oceanic environment rears its unpredictable and at times very ugly head and swats the big kites out of the sky.
Or the “kitesail” dives into the sea atop a large pod of whales and drowns the lot of them.
In business sometimes you are forced to go along with stupid policy.
How do you do it?
You make it so ridiculous (w a straight serious face) that no one wants to EVER mention it again.
this is classic trolling….
😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
Can’t fix stupid!
They want us to go back to the Stone Age. Except there are no more wooly mammoths to eat. But then they farted too
The real scientific challenge is to figure out how they can get so much “stupid” into their tiny pinheads!
Yes, they hate technology, as long as its “western” tech. There are multitude of movies reflecting that.
The elites love technology, they’ll never give up their modern lifestyles. They will never stop using their private keys, buying third mansions on the beach, eating filet mingon. They just don’t want us serfs to have the chance at the same lifestyle.
Yeah. Sails made from petroleum-based synthetic fibers.
Yup, those woke eco people forget how much stuff they use on a daily basis comes from oil.
I don’t for one second think someone figuring out more efficient energy is a bad thing. I’m sure it would be great if someone invented a battery technology that could be used to power these ships – as someone who spent their entire adult life riding in load noisy fire engines I can assure you the quieter electric motor would be much appreciated. However, we must utilize the current technology until until something better comes along and I’m certain it will eventually.
I for one am in the process of changing my yard equipment to Ego’s battery stuff. The trimmer is so nice, no more trying to start a flooded engine. It just works and I don’t have to have it idle while moving around. It’s quieter, does the same job, and the string last a lot longer. I don’t have to store pre-mix anymore. Don’t have to worry about making sure I have gas laying around. Right now I only have the smallest battery and I can use the trimmer and blower with the same battery for my needs (11,000 sq ft of grass), but eventually want to get a couple of the larger batteries.
They always forget about asphalt too.
Heh, we’re gonna hafta grow more hemp. Wonder if some moron is thinking of tying a sail to a tractor 😂
Almost as stupid as the notion that defunding the police will improve public safety. .. . almost.
Why stop there. You know the Romans got it right 2500 years ago. Slave galleys. They could be manned by the unvaxxed- their expendable anyway. Now you dogs to the drum beat…Stroke..Stroke..you there put your back into it or youll feel the whip. Whos your Daddy? JOE BIDEN! Whos your Mommy? HILLARY! STOKE STROKE STROKE
The beatings will continue until moral improves!
Mike in a Truck: Hmm. Come to think of it, they could also mount harpoon launchers on container ships to catch sperm whales, and then, skin the whales and burn the blubber. Besides, we need more whale bones to make skirt hoops.
Dude! You just broke the internet!
Al Gore is gonna hate you when word gets back to him😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅
Why stop there. We could get the unvaccinated to push your car. Pump prices mean nothing and the air will be carbon free.
Someone with computer graphic skills, could have fun with this; pictures of AIRCRAFT Carriers (how do the planes land and take off, without hitting the kites?) and Submarines, huge cruise ships, all with these kites, lol.
Why not just go back to wooden sailing ships?
And, what are they going to come up with, to address the tremendous amount of Jet fuel being burned?
Hang gliders?
Not just airlines, and cargo jets (UPS, etc.) but MILITARY aircraft, which have always been exempt from requirements civilian aircraft are required to meet.
Just read an article in AmericanThinker, which clarified what this whole “Trans activism” is all about.
Just as GND has NOTHING to do with CC, or environmentalism, and is a plan to implement Marxist ideology under cover, and BLM is likewise NOT about “stamping out rascism” but is about Marxism, the Trans activist b.s. is being promulgated by a small # of people (?) who are trans, but are ALSO Avowed Marxists.
Shoulda known, right?
Or the skin rafts used by the enterprising Europeans to boat across the Atlantic instead of having to wait for a land bridge to appear.
“Who controls the past, controls the future. Who controls the present, controls the past” George Orwell
Monty Python could have fun with this idea.
The skit would end with a giant foot stomping down on the huge head of a yapping AOC.
Oh! Oh! Oh! CARS powered by kites!
The car solution will be modelled after Fred Flintstone. Cut a big hole in the floor and tell everyone to take off their shoes and start pushing.
I would love to see a remake of Top Gun where they are floating around on hand gliders. Very intense. Maverick you have a bogey on your six! Then Highway to the Dangerzone kicks in full volume.
I so miss my bluewater sailboat!
I had to check and make sure that wasn’t a Babylon Bee article…
….and when stupid seagulls start getting killed flying into the canopy shroud lines then what?
Were dealing with some real rocket scientists here folks!
Watermelons on full display my friend!
Stop dissing watermelons!
Deal with the seagulls the same way we deal with the raptors getting knocked out of the sky when they inadvertently fly into the wind turbine blades. It’s simple. Just apply the Mamet principle. Ignore the issue, and pretend it doesn’t exist.
Good point! And think about a sudden calm and that giant sail drops into the water and the ship runs over the lines. There’s a reason ships had masts.
How many dolphins and whales and sea turtles are we going to lose to this brilliant idea!
Sail all that cargo across the ocean blue like Christopher Columbus on the Nino, the Pinto and the Santa Barbara!!!! Hahaha!!!!
Those were the three boats that survived the journey. There was a fourth boat, long forgotten, that didn’t make it. It fell off the edge of the earth…………
Ship will go even faster with the sail if they remove the engines and all the fuel to lighten the ship.
Thankfully Communist China doesn’t have to comply because they manufacture everything for everybody and they really, really need the exemption.
So happy
Penn & Teller had a video where they had a whole bunch of watermelons sign a petition banning water!
There you go again with the watermelons.
Literally too stunned to comment. And they call us crazy….
When you rewrite history, you can claim you invented it.
Best way for “Western” nations to lower their (toxic sarc) Green House Gases, is to stop the invasion of Green House Gas emitting immigration invaders, and deport all illegals. Added benefit would be less pollution, more open spaces/wildlife habitat, and less environmental degradation as the #1 reason for environmental degradation is human population growth, which is driven exclusively by immigration! Green is Red!
We need to go back to the old Roman Galleys which used oars to aid in propulsion when the wind didn’t blow the right way. So, we need to cut holes in the sides of the ship to propel them when the wind is uncooperative. Of course, in the Atlantic, this might be problematic due to high seas. However, this may be expensive because you would have to hire and train numerous people to “row the boat”. They would probably demand a higher wage than the minimums. Sarc./
You’re on to it: man the oars with the UNVAXXED!
Not Romans.
Rediscover your inner Viking.
What really gets me is how this is a solution to a problem they created. Given a choice between giant kites vs ditching the Paris Climate Agreement, they chose foolishly.
If horses didn’t emit methane, they could invent the wheel and cart.
So we’re back to the 1700s.
Maybe that is the Back in Build Back Better. 😉
That will speed up the supply chain shortage, NOT. I want off of clown world and back to a sane planet.
We have gone from the Stone Age to the Stupid Age.
What’s this WE stuff?
This is what happens when idiots control the formally free world.
Back in the day when hard core educators ran the universities scientists and engineers could innovate and find solutions to all of these perceived problems. The ideologues that run the universities nowadays produce nothing but useful idiots.
They are not idiots. They just want you to think they are because the truth is worse. They are evil people intent on destroying western civilization. So far, it seems they’ve been pretty successful.
USE-fool idiots. Instructions from the book of fools.
You can’t be forced to forage for food and other prime necessities if you can just go buy them at the market. History shows us that foragers are generally much to busy trying to survive to be of any bother or concern to the governmental elites. Should the peasants tire of their oppression and decide to mount a revolt, they’ll do so with pitchforks and clubs because their firearms were deemed environmental/health hazards and confiscated long ago.
Brilliant engineering.
“Going forward in reverse…”
“It’s just a sign of the times…”
“Still, he who laughs last…”
“It’s just a hand in the Bush…”
-from, No More Tears
“Leading from behind.”
Or as I like to say it, “Leading from the behind.”
What did lefties use for illumination before candles? Lightbulbs!
Substitute “yanking my” for “supply” chain.
“The roots of liberalism – and its associated madness – can be clearly identified by understanding how children develop from infancy to adulthood and how distorted development produces the irrational beliefs of the liberal mind. When the modern liberal mind whines about imaginary victims, rages against imaginary villains and seeks above all else to run the lives of persons competent to run their own lives, the neurosis of the liberal mind becomes painfully obvious.” Dr Lyle Rossiter
Liberals Are Mentally Ill
https://downwithjugears.blogspot.com/2009/12/liberals-are-mentally-ill.html
I think we’ve found ourselves a “new” way for AOC to commie-commute between NYC and DC….
I’m not so sure about those sails, at least as shown in the picture, but there have been some very interesting proposals for slow transport by blimps. We are speed addicts, and waste great amounts of energy that way. During times of unfavorable winds, blimps could ground themselves themselves by condensing their gasses. Many goods could be moved slowly in favorable seasons, with prevailing winds, and stockpiled. Our problem is that we put profit ahead of environmeent, and get away with it because fuel is unrealistically cheap. Hauling stuff across the Pacific instead of manufacturing it locally is obscene, I am not greatly concerned about “global warming” but I know crazy when I see it.
fuel is unrealistically cheap ??? ahh fail …
and wanting goods now has nothing to do with profit vs environment …
and blimps … talk about 19th century tech … next you’ll suggest solar powered hot air balloons …
Well, as an example, a large oil tanker has engines that produce upward of 90,000 HP.
In force 4 winds, 50 sq. ft. is about 1 HP.
Best of luck dreamers and delusionals. There’s a reason why NASA really isn’t in the space business anymore.
I’ve sailed all the oceans, having been on 4 Navy ships and I’ve seen a LOT of very calm seas. The reason we went from sailing ships to steamships to diesel engines is THE WIND STOPS BLOWING! Morons!
This whole conversation reminds me of one of President TRUMP’s comedic riffs. “Darling, is the wind blowing tonight? I want to watch my program. No. Darn.”
I literally have no words.
There are many better concepts for extracting wind energy than “kites”. Meanwhile place NV Savannah back in service.
I’m so excited! I have always loved those tall ships of old and will now be able to see them in full action!
I love tall ships too. The multiple sails on those majestic ships were vertical. The sail as shown on the tanker is horizontal.
The people who designed this are too smart for words.
That huge sailboat being dragged by a huge kite is going to be a bitch to tack.
Surely they understand how to sail into the wind. Shipping routes don’t always have a favorable wind. Wow, talk about a slow boat from China!
If we all would just live in caves with candlelight there wouldn’t be any need fo products to be shipped. /s
Or just kill all humans to save the planet for endangered reptiles.
They are trying their best with these mandates.
The kite looks like a good platform to message “Let’s Go Brandon”.
LGB will work just fine.
Netherlands Goes Nuclear In Massive Atomic Humanist Victory!
(Dutch government will keep existing nuclear plant operating AND build two more full-sized water-cooled plants)
https://michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/netherlands-goes-nuclear-in-massive
Liberals’ intentions are “good” and that is what they want you to judge them on not the results which are usually disastrous for everyone.
I am suprised they did not suggest solar panels to provide supplemental power when the winds are light.
That’s next….supplemented by ….wait for it….steam engines powered by hot air from libtards!
or powered by cow farts
They’re gonna be sorry there are now regulations against cows farting (due to their own goofiness).
Foss Marine made and Eco Tug. Diesel Electric. To get the last 5% peak they added a huge number of heavy batteries. I did not see the value verses cost of what they did.
As for solar…it never pens an ROI. Never accounts for failed inverters or equipment. Never establishes a depreciation schedule. Never accounts for total cost connecting to grid. Forgets to mention loan payment for system.
It does require prepaying 10 years of electricity.
Yep. And at that point one has to replace the inverter, and, the panels have degraded 10%.
Solar panels that work in starlight!
Once the kite gets tangled in the ship’s single screw, it will have to drift into port.
Kite aloft
Wind dies
Kite in the drink
Ship sails over kite
Kite fouls screws
BRILLIANT!!
Stellar panels!
These people are insane.
This is intentional. Nobody can be this stupid. They must have released this so we would be distracted spending a full day mocking them. While we are occupied laughing, they are sticking their hands in our pockets and robbing us blind.
No need, they are doing that blatantly while lying and claiming it “for the better good” and we need to do OUR part.
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. This has been fun! Seeing the humorous comments here has made me appreciate the wit and cleverness of CTH peeps and Sundance more than ever.
In a related story … the EU is dying, dying, dying … almost dead. Soon.