Unveiled: the clean queen of the sea

[emad]

Telegraph
By David Harrison
(Filed: 13/03/2005)

It is the ship of the future - powered by the sun, wind and waves. The futuristic vessel has no conventional engines, uses no fossil fuels and releases no harmful emissions into the atmosphere or pollution into the sea.

The first ship to use the technology will be a cargo vessel that will transport up to 10,000 cars from Britain to Australia, New Zealand and other countries. If successful, it will be used on passenger ferries and cruise ships.

The wave energy is harnessed by 12 dolphin-like fins on the ship's hull, while sun and wind energy is collected by three giant, rigid, fin-like sails covered in solar panels.

The sails and fins will also help the ship to cruise at a speed of 15 knots and stability will be provided by the pentamaran hull - a slim monohull that will have two smaller support hulls, known as sponsons, on each side.

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[Wilms]

1. Very cool! n/t

[redqueen]

2. That's so wonderful...

thanks for posting this!

[Cicero]

3. "Wave motion converters"???

Ok, just so long as they don't install a "wave motion cannon" on the thing, otherwise I'm gonna totally freak out.

:bounce: :silly:

Later,