Gregory's Server@stavvers Ok, I know we're having fun here, but what is more likely: that an otherwise successful (as far as I can tell) Swedish ship design company has reinvented sailboats for no reason, or that there's some sort of innovation here that's just not immediately obvious from a headline?
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@BathysphereHat @stavvers what I believe is being mocked here is the need to frame every new idea as some kind of earth-shattering development. It comes from the tech-bro cult of disruption, which is not a sustainable attitude.  @BathysphereHat @stavvers I think the innovation here is the scale of the ship. I wouldn't call this a sailboat because it's orders of magnitude bigger than a sailboat. It is a sailing ship though... I think. I wonder if "wind-powered" is a jargon word that somehow excludes all previous sailing ships...  @typeswitch @BathysphereHat @stavvers More accurate headline would be "windpowered modern cargo vessel." Check out the Harryproa for a smaller scale substitute for island-hopping tramp steamers: https://www.harryproa.com/ |
@stavvers Like, looking at their website, it looks like this is a very real effort to reduce carbon emissions in shipping while also avoiding a lot of the disadvantages that make traditional sailboats impractical for modern freight, and it seems kind of backwards to be shitting on that.