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3·6 hours agoYou don’t have to imagine it, three already exist and no these aren’t yachts, they are cargo vessels for tea and wine!
The introduction of this new fleet of sailing cargo ships is in line with TOWT’s aim of creating lower-emission alternatives to conventional container vessels powered by internal combustion engines. The ships and their equipment will also comply with regulations that cover cargo vessels sailing on international routes and with gross tonnages greater than 500 UMS. The advanced sail technology was inspired by that used by vessels built for ocean racing.
The TOWT vessels each have a length of 81 metres (270 feet), a beam of 15 metres (49 feet), a height of 63 metres (210 feet), and a cargo hold for transporting palletised goods totalling 1,100 tonnes. The sails will provide all of the propulsive power needed by each vessel with a sail rigging of 2,200 square metres (24,000 square feet) spread over two masts, while navigation will be aided by an autonomous routing system that utilises artificial intelligence and meteorological data. Using the sails alone, the vessels can already achieve a top speed of 10 knots.
A rare glimpse of an exciting future-past synchronicity, almost every other tall ship on this list is not actually used for shipping.
3·7 hours agoThank you for linking this!
Nah it isn’t the main propulsion, it is opportunistic and reduces fuel costs, the efficiency gains add up very quickly however.
It is also cool how practical and actionable this tech seems to be, implementation is moving fast now in this area.
One might even say it is amusing how much this technology both is and isn’t a pipe dream.
2·2 days agoI have an 87% immunity to jokes
My comment was about being “worried” about them being attracted to me, it was about pointing out how horrifying the idea of being intimate with these men is.
I have to be honest, to me a “goober” can still be fuckable whereas JD Vance and Tucker Carlson are two of the unsexiest, most unfuckable objects in the known universe.
Imagine the horror of being naked and vulnerable around JD or Tucker, imagine how little they would put in or how little they would care about your body, or how you felt, or how the experience was for you… shudders
Yeah, you can probably hear the forest creatures bursting out in joyful Disney Musical numbers with every bite! Mmmmm
What is the carbon footprint of eating billionaire meat?
Surely the answer is they aren’t using enough AI!
Also there is a frustrating lack of nuance here, if you are a US senator or maybe like an Admiral in the US navy maybe you shouldn’t drive a modern foreign car… whatever that means (which itself is a question that needs to be reflected on critically, does it matter where the car is made vs. what open and inspectable standards it is built to?) but if you are an average person a foreign government gains virtually nothing by obessively surveilling you, whereas corporations and entities within the domestic sphere of influence of your country ABSOLUTELY do gain from it… they are gaining from it this very moment by surveilling all of us.
All this panic about Chinese electric cars is completely centered around the perspective of the first category of people… which isn’t to say that this isn’t bullshit anyways the computers that run internal combustion engine cars are MASSIVELY complicated with an absolutely UNFATHOMABLE amount of code, this idea that eletric cars are some “new” threat vector is insulting to the intelligence of human beings.
I mean look of course I don’t trust China blindly to sell me an electric car that doesn’t have some kind of privacy invading aspect to it… that is why you have good cybersecurity regulations with agencies focused on maintaining a high level of standards in domestic markets… but I ALSO sure as hell don’t trust US or “western” automakers to not do equally evil shit with privacy invading crap and unlike China… there is much more of an economic incentive to invade my privacy by domestic interests.
I also for the record don’t trust the US government or other “western” governments to properly penalize automakers for invading my privacy, to the point that even if it is “illegal” international corporations surely just see it as a minor cost of doing business.
so shrugs my opinion is do better “western” car companies
At least they don’t sell your usage to insurance companies so far.
What a grim sentence
But but but non-chinese automakers aren’t evil like China is and surely they won’t shove their vehicles full of spyware crap!
lol how about y’all actually make competitive cars people want to buy first?
The even cooler part is these are an answer with what to do with excess unused renewable energy supply!
5·6 days agoMore marketing hype for AI companies.
5·6 days agoThere is a definite slant to this question…
Sam Allfullofshit
Fascists are so bad at art and media literacy that they often end up making the best satire possible of themselves entirely by accident and with a straight face.