because the boat is trying to push its wake through the water and much resistance? a lot of resistance and you can use batteries on ferries if they run very slowly, but if you want to go a bit faster and longer, the whole thing collapses because you could of course put in more batteries, but at the end, you are putting in so many batteries, the boat will sink. it will sink. you have a fiscal limit that you can t get around. he says that one hour of charging will allow this ferry to run for three hours, meaning a good service during the morning rush and one charge to be ready for the afternoon peak after being recharged at lunchtime. another advantage to being almost entirely out of the water as well, it does not bounce about on the waves! it is pretty steady. i can t really tell i am out of the water but i can tell i can feel the waves around but actually it is using the same
sustainability stories. this week, is it a boat or a plane? i am on board the ferry that can fly! why has nobody made 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 in the sky on energy use. nice outfit by the way. thank you. i m taking the world temperature to assess climate action.
of 25 knots and 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 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 are needed to get the ferry up to speed and its 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. normal boats consume
before it gets too big. and that s it for our round up of some of the latest sustainability stories. hope you ve enjoyed them. from sweden and from me and my electric ferry, thanks for watching. and.i wonder what this does? hello there. saturday brought with it drier weather, some sunshine as well, but still around 200 flood warnings because all the rain that we have seen so far to start 2024 is still making its way through the river systems. there are numerous flood warnings in force, you can find more detail on the website. because of course the first three or four days of 2024, january, have brought almost a month s worth of rain in some areas.
from sweden and from me and my electric ferry, thanks for watching. and.i wonder what this does? hello there. we ve had a rather cold and frosty start to sunday morning. temperatures down to minus five degrees in parts of northern england and southern scotland. but for many of us, it s been a fine start with some clear skies, a bit of sunshine out there, but also one or two fog patches which may be slow to clear in parts of northern ireland and central scotland. but for the rest of today, for most of us, it s a case of sunny spells. now, the reason for the change in the weather from the recent stormy conditions is this big area of high pressure which becomes established across the uk today and indeed over the next few days. so it keeps things mostly dry.