Japan launches first solar cargo ship
December 19, 2008
The Toyota Vehicle Distribution Center at the Port of Long Beach. The world's first cargo ship partly propelled by solar power took to the seas on Friday in Japan, aiming to cut fuel costs and carbon emissions when automakers export their products
The world's first cargo ship partly propelled by solar power took to the seas on Friday in Japan, aiming to cut fuel costs and carbon emissions when automakers export their products.
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Toyota doesn't ship anything other than plans. They're successful because they buy local resources, build a plant and start building cars, avoiding tariffs the whole way. As for a solar powered ship, does it even have enough surface area to devote to PV panels to go past 0.2%?
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Cargo ships measure fuel usage by tons used daily at a specific speed. Also, most of them burn bunker fuel, which is barely this side of coal as far as being dirty. As for being cost effective, I'm betting the para-sail idea would save more and cost less in the long run. I think I read savings of 15-20% on fuel costs from the sail, but that's probably exaggerated a bit.
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lol, Nippon builds a giant freighter and Toyota uses it to ship plans!!! Toyota must have a lot of paperwork... but according to the article, Toyota is using the ship to ship cars!!! Imagine that.
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TJ is probably right about the source of the money. You would have to be in marketing to be this clueless.
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Fusion power is the only hope for humanity. All other options are just expensive waste of time.
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http://tiny.cc/EnTJl
I beleive they are trying to keep it low-key for the time being..
The company that developed this fusion reactor has been contracted by the US Navy for over a decade to research and develop an electric propulsion to be used on tankers/carries/ etc.... and hopefully the next step will be a 100 megawatt continuous-operation scale-up.
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Let's see 6,400 cars, that couldn't possibly be for the other islands in Japan's island chain would it?
It's a short range experimental vessel, it won't be shipping the East West trade routes.