RE:RE:Ocean shipping turning to natural gasOldnagger wrote: This is a trend that can only grow. Notice that no one is talking about going back to sailing ships !!
Nag,
they've been talking and designing for modern sailing cargo vessels for decades. Some prototypes have been built and there are even some examples of proto turned useful.
I'm not going to spend too much time on it, but google, just for fun of course: "sails on cargo ships".
Love the samples where they "kite" the vessel forward.
Are there still difficulties to conguer?
They're working on getting favorable wind direction at all times. :-)
Have fun.