High-tech sail to cut costs, emissions

[stefan]

http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/12/04/tbr.skysail.reut/index.html

[derstuka]

http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/12/04/tbr.skysail.reut/index.html

Interesting idea, I just do not think it will be easy to get people to switch over at first. Sucks they have to pay 660,000+ and post a full time engineer on board to run it. Other than that, anything that saves fuel, money, and is better for the environment, sounds good to me.

[moabfool]

That's a darn fine idea. A savings of 15 to 20% would be significant considering larger freighters only get 6 inches to the gallon. Any way to save is worth looking into since shipping accounts for roughly 40% of the cost of the goods we buy.