What a Fascinating Modern Age We Live In...

[mwroman]

Somehow, quoting Lucky Jack seemed fitting here:

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[pebbleworm]

It seems like a going a few steps backwards, requiring a lot of manpower which is the most expensive component these days. And it will have to be SAILED, not just driven like a powered ship. There have been experiments with rigid sails of some kind for more than 100 years, from the Flettner rotor ship

Rotor ship - Wikipedia

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to this random modern proposal:

Oceanbird's huge 80-meter sails reduce cargo shipping emissions by 90%

The idea of using sails to power a boat is not exactly a new one; indeed, the earliest known depiction of a ship under sail appears on a painted disc found in Kuwait, dated back to somewhere between 5,000-5,500 BCE. Boats themselves, interestingly, appear to be closer to a million years old, and…

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All of these have been unsuccessful due to cheap fuel, a lack of will to minimize ecological damage and the need to learn a new set of skills to use them effectively.

 

[Thomas]

Also, manpower may be expensive but finding things for people to do when robots have replaced them is going to be an issue. Bill an around the world trip on a modern tall ship and you'd get a lot of people signing up!