but this is no ordinary ferry. because this very can fly. very. ferry! this is the candle appear 12, the prototype of a ferry which would go into service injuly 2024 and its cruising speed of 25 knots and wings called hydrofoils provide huge amounts of lived in the same way that aircraft wings can get a plane off the ground, these wings can raise the whole hull above the surface. i started to notice more and more boats and even windsurfing and kite surfing having these foils underneath the board so the entire thing can lift out of the water. because hardly any of the boat is having to push through the water, it does not need as powerful a motorcar. that means there is something else that is very special about this craft. it is electric. these small propellers are all that i needed to get the ferry up to speed and is on board batteries give it a range of 50 nautical miles, all of which promises to make waterborne transport a whole lot cleaner and a whole lot greener. who
an electric hydrofoil, flying ferry before? i think the main reason is it is freaking hard! we are in india where solar dryers are battling food waste. and an eye the sky on energy use. nice outfit by the way. thank you. i m taking the world temperature to assess climate action. stockholm, capital of sweden and the city of islands, 14 of them to be precise which makes water transport a big thing around these parts. so today i have decided to take the ferry. but this is no ordinary ferry. because this ferry can fly! this is the candela p 12, the prototype of a ferry which would go into service injuly 2024 and its cruising speed of 25 knots, narrow wings called hydrofoils provide huge amounts of lift in the same way that aircraft wings can get a plane off the ground, these wings can raise the whole hull above the surface. i started to notice more and more boats and even windsurfing and kite surfing having these foils underneath the board so the entire thing can lift out of the
and at its cruising speed of 25 knots, narrow wings called hydrofoils, provide huge amounts of lift. in the same way that aircraft wings can get a plane off the ground, these wings can raise the whole hull above the surface. i ve started to notice more and more boats and even windsurfs and kite surfs having these foils underneath the board, so the entire thing can lift out of the water. and because hardly any of the boat is having to push through the water, it doesn t need as powerful a motor. and that means there s something else that s very special about this craft. it s electric. these small propellers are all that are needed to get the ferry up to speed and its onboard batteries give it a range of 50 nautical miles, all of which promises to make waterborne transport a whole lot cleaner and a whole lot greener. normal boats consume an awful lot of fuel and they are extremely inefficient, compared to land based transport. and this is because the boat is trying to push its w
going to say this morning what i m going to announce to parliament on wednesday. why change inheritance tax when you have the lower paid struggling to pay their bills? this isn t asking you to confirm it. it s a question of principle. why would you do that when people are having such a hard time? i m sorry to say that i m not going to be drawn on any individual tax. i think you can read the papers this morning and you can see that i m going to abolish every single tax. andy gilding was watching that interview with the chancellor and posed this question. we asked bbc news for an answer to that and they told us. afterjeremy hunt had actually made his speech on wednesday, bbc cameras, along with those of other media, were positioned in their traditional spot for a big day at westminster on college green, just outside the houses of parliament in central london. political correspondent ione wells joined ben thompson there on wednesday afternoon to provide some analysis of what had
The former communist east. The current chancellor, angela merkel, has led the tributes, describing him as a great german and a Great European. The bbcs paul adams looks back at his life. As the cold war ended, helmut kohl seemed to tower, quite literally, over everyone and everything around him. As a child, he witnessed the destruction of his country. World war ii inspiring his lifelong desire to unify germany and europe. He rose through the ranks of the christian democratic union, becoming chancellor in 1982. His provincial manners were frequently mocked but he was tough and he knew how to wield power, and when history came calling, he was ready. The fall of the berlin wall, a moment of euphoria and, for helmut kohl, a chance to put his fractured country back together. But unity did not stop there. With frances president francois mitterrand, he pursued his other big idea the new European Union and its own currency, the euro. He didnt always agree with his political protege and his car