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
to keep it perfectly balanced. why has nobody made an electric hydrofoil flying ferry before? i think the main reason is that it s freaking hard. spencer laughs. over 70 countries have commitments to net zero targets. some are enshrined in law. others are goals laid out in policy. large companies have also made net zero pledges. but how do we know that they re being met? well, there s one company that might have the answer. satellites have been capturing images from space for decades. this is a radar one here. you ve also got optical images like these. any cloud cover around and you won t see what s going on beneath. and you need daylight for most of these. but satellite vu has a different plan. for them, it s all about thermal imaging. engines at full power. and liftoff of transporter a. go falcon, go transporter. its first satellite, hotsat 1, was launched injune on a spacex rocket flying out of california. it started sending back high resolution images to earth, its therma
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