They have discovered a new way to cut carbon emissions from cargo ships by nearly 20 percent.
They haven’t developed a new fuel...
No, they want us to go back to the days of Columbus and Magellan.
Call it the Cook Protocol; they want to attach massive kites to pull these ships across the oceans (via CNN):
You may have seen kitesurfers in action, harnessing the power of the wind to pull them over the sea. Now imagine the same concept applied to a 1,000-square-meter kite, flying 300 meters above the water – only instead of towing a surfer across the waves, it’s helping to propel a colossal cargo ship across the ocean...
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