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The MS Beluga Skysails Leaves Port on her Maiden Commercial Voyage

Posted on January 22, 2008

Last month I ' target=_blank wrote about an innovative idea from SkySails of Hamburg Germany set to make shipping more energy efficient while reducing carbon emissions (merchant shipping accounts for some 800 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions every year): A computer controlled, deployable kite system that harnesses the wind and, under ideal circumstances, can reduce fuel consumption by up to 20% a very old idea utlizing the latest technology. To update the story, the MS Beluga Skysails set sail today from the northern Germany port of Bremerhaven on her maiden commercial voyage...

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carbon , emissions , energy efficient , germany , greenhouse gas , wind
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