{"id":1909,"date":"2024-09-27T07:00:19","date_gmt":"2024-09-27T11:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/?p=1909"},"modified":"2024-09-03T12:09:16","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T16:09:16","slug":"could-wind-powered-cargo-ships-really-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/could-wind-powered-cargo-ships-really-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Could Wind-Powered Cargo Ships Really Work?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The shipping industry is responsible for about 3 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, but that could be eliminated if today\u2019s giant cargo ships could be propelled by wind instead of diesel fuel.\u00a0\u00a0 And that just might be on the horizon.\u00a0 A\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coe.miami.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">University of Miami <\/a>researcher is developing giant cylinders that would be mounted on the decks of cargo ships, generating thrust by sucking in, pressurizing and ejecting air in a different direction.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2018Windfall\u2019 technology to power cargo ships<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/news.miami.edu\/stories\/2024\/07\/windfall-technology-to-power-cargo-ships.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/news.miami.edu\/stories\/2024\/07\/windfall-technology-to-power-cargo-ships.html<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Related Reading<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><script src=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/widgets.js\" data-type=\"book\" data-affiliate-id=\"102171\" data-sku=\"9798223701873\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The shipping industry is responsible for about 3 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, but that could be eliminated if today\u2019s giant cargo ships could be propelled by wind instead of diesel fuel.\u00a0\u00a0 And that just might be on the horizon.\u00a0 A\u00a0 University of Miami researcher is developing giant cylinders that would be mounted on&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/could-wind-powered-cargo-ships-really-work\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Could Wind-Powered Cargo Ships Really Work?&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,53,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-global","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1909"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1958,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1909\/revisions\/1958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}