this week. is it a boat or is it a plane? i m onboard the ferry that can fly. why has nobody made an electric hydrofoil flying ferry before? i think the main reason is that it s freaking hard. we re in india, where solar dryers are battling food waste. and an eye in the sky on energy use. nice outfit, by the way. thanks. i ve been taking the temperature with the world s thermometer to assess the climate impact of all our actions. stockholm, capital of sweden, and a city of islands, 1a of them to be precise, which makes water transport a big thing around these parts. so today i ve 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 should go into service injuly 202a. 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 surfac
nice outfit by the way. thanks. i m taking the world temperature to assess all our actions. stockholm, capital of sweden and the city of islands, and the city of islands 14 of them, to be precise which makes water transport a big thing around these parts. so, today, i ve 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 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 motorcar and that means there s something el
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
apart the components. precise details are still under wraps, but it turns out it s relatively simple. these are the glass fibres which king of come apart a little bit. yes, i can see those. ..because they re not bound together any more. it s very clearly separated into its different components. that means the fibres and even the type epoxy resin could be recovered and potentially reused. this has been quite remarkable. we thought these materials were extremely strong and indestructible, now we found the chemical processing can chew its way through the epoxy. and, in theory, it could work on all kinds of turbine blades, already out there. what we find exciting is we re the first to be able to do that. materials not only confined to the wind turbine industry, there s the aeronautic industry, space industry, cars. this technology still needs to make the leap from a test test tube to the real world. but, with new solutions
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