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Organikos

Apr 28

Pagan Kennedy offers another look at an idea that seemed a mere novelty when we first linked to it:

The Climate Crisis Gives Sailing Ships a Second Wind

Cargo vessels are some of the dirtiest vehicles in existence. Can a centuries-old technology help to clean them up?

In February, 1912, Londoners packed a dock on the River Thames to gawk at the Selandia, a ship that could race through the water without any sails or smokestacks. Winston Churchill, then the minister in charge of the British Royal Navy, declared it "the most perfect maritime masterpiece of the twentieth century." But, as the Selandia continued its journey around the world, some onlookers were so spooked that they called it the Devil Ship.

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