Are there any technical details available for this system? The linked article doesn't do a good job of explaining how it works or how much impact it will have.<p>Assuming the boat can harness 10% of the wave's energy, wave power in the Philippines is more like 10kW per meter of wave length captured on average so that equates to ~1kW per metre of wave. Let's assume this boat can capture roughly 10m of wave then that is an average power generation of ~10kW or ~ 10hp. A boat of this size will probably have 500+ hp engines so a boost of 10hp won't have a huge amount of impact.
> The emissions from travel it took to report this story were 0kg CO2. The digital emissions from this story are an estimated 1.2g to 3.6g CO2 per page view.<p>Maybe this is what finally could push companies towards making lighter and more efficient websites? At least an estimate of a webpages watt usage (server and client side).
It looks like there's nothing in the way to put something like one of those kite-sails meant for cargo ships on a ship like this one to reduce the fuel needs and hence the carbon footprint even more.
I've been long enamored with Philippine boat making. The first time I was asked if I wanted to ride in a canoe, I said no and had horrid flashbacks of tipping over in dirty ponds in the south USA. Theirs, even homemade ones, have stabilizers. Such a simple, but brilliant idea.
It’s honestly a shame that we didn’t keep pursuing sail technology. It’s great that we’re finally getting somewhere environmentally-friendly with ship tech nowadays as in the OP, but if we’d put the same amount of effort to innovate and advance sails like we did steam, I imagine we’d have pretty amazing (and completely green) methods of transport for all but the heaviest cargo loads (and even then, just split the load across multiple ships?).<p>Of course, nowadays the tech is probably so far behind that the cost of the necessary innovations to “catch up” sails to modern powering methods is completely prohibitive; I guess the environment will continue to take one for the team...
This is a great endeavour but where is the scale model that proved the concept?<p>I know scale models don't meet up with realistic waves when on a pond but it would be nice to see this working. As it is the story is not there yet!
I've been in one of the traditional Philippines boats on a trip to an island in not so calm seas, we hired the boat and crew for the day.<p>It was an interesting but scary experience, probably won't be doing it again. The island was decent.
Novice here - isn't there some static hull shape that would react to waves and result in motion, much like those plastic widgets that spin only in one direction?