{"id":1796,"date":"2005-09-24T11:02:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-24T11:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1796"},"modified":"2005-09-24T11:02:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-24T11:02:00","slug":"skysails_great","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1796","title":{"rendered":"Skysails: Great Shipping Energy Saving Idea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"skysails.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/archives\/skysails.jpg\" width=\"387\" height=\"259\" \/>Great application of a mix of old an new technologies in a way that makes sense.   Kudos to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skysails.info\">SkySails<\/a> folks for bringing this to market.  The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/printedition\/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=4368130\">Economist<\/a> has more:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>But the SkySails approach does away with masts and is much cheaper. The firm says it can outfit a ship with a kite system for between \u20ac400,000 and \u20ac2.5m, depending on the vessel&#8217;s size. Stephan Wrage, the boss of SkySails, says fuel savings will recoup these costs in just four or five years, assuming oil prices of $50 a barrel. Jesper Kanstrup, a senior naval architect at Knud E. Hansen, says the idea of pulling a ship with an inexpensive kite\u2014attached to the structurally solid bow like a tugboat\u2014had never occurred to him. \u201cIt&#8217;s a good idea,\u201d he says.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Skysails reveals the essence of any successful (We&#8217;ll see) idea: economics, application, timing and luck!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great application of a mix of old an new technologies in a way that makes sense. Kudos to the SkySails folks for bringing this to market. The Economist has more: But the SkySails approach does away with masts and is much cheaper. The firm says it can outfit a ship with a kite system for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1796"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}