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How Talking With Animals Would Change Our World (www.youtube.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I don't think Solarpunk has normalised the idea that we could just routinely talk to animals.

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Uh we are proposing we go back to sail power.

The Pyxis Ocean has set sail to test EU-funded WindWings technology that will bring cutting edge wind propulsion to commercial shipping for the first time.

https://cinea.ec.europa.eu/news-events/news/new-wind-powered-cargo-ship-sets-sail-2023-08-22_en

https://maritime-executive.com/editorials/sailing-cargo-ships-are-making-a-genuine-comeback

Edit: Also really EU? The first time? You think this is the first time wind powered sailing was cutting edge? Not for the thousands of years before modern engines?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Cargo ships with marine diesel engines that are aided with a few sails is not, going back to sail.

The noise will still be there.

They mention a 30% fuel saving. This is not about reducing sea trade it is about cost savings, making sea trade cheaper and likely leading to more ships, not less on the oceans,

Even it it lead to 30% less ships, this would only take the world back to about 2010 as sea trade had grown by more than 30% since then.