As the price of oil increases (because we are running out of the stuff) some smart people are realising that we need to look elsewhere for energy. It is only suiting that the shipping industry does this since renewable resources for energy (wind) have been used longer than human-made forms of energy. One company, Wallenius Wilhelmsen, has designed a ship that uses three forms of energy: wind, solar, and water.
The linked article also has a list of other innovate approaches that have been spawned by this boating project.
Thanks, Emily!
perhaps the most interesting thing i have seen in the renewable energy department recently, are these things…
http://www.energine.com/eng/index.html
http://www.theaircar.com/howitworks.html
the real advantage of these Air cars is they can presumably run on heavily polluted air… unlike the humans that could one day ride in them.
Good things are happening everywhere!
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