Shipping industry seems slow to turn to wind power

Designers are experimenting with new ways of capturing the free resource of wind power to propel decarbonised ships

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  • Mandatory reduction
  • Innovative wind-power designs
  • For and against
  • Design options
  • Wingsails
  • Suction wings
  • Towing kites
  • Flettner rotors
  • Hull form
  • Square-riggers
  • Outlook

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