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Giant kites could pull cargo ships across the ocean – and slash their carbon emissions

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Giant kites could pull cargo ships across the ocean – and slash their carbon emissions

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Environment@beehaw.org · 2 years ago

Giant kites could pull ships across the ocean – and slash their carbon emissions | CNN

French company Airseas has developed the Seawing, a kite to help propel cargo ships, which it says could cut their carbon emissions by an average of 20%.

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This has been in sci-fi books for ages and I am all for it. Airships, slow travelling, all of it.

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