More & Faster Offshore Wind Is The Aim Of Maersk’s New “Rube Goldberg” Workboat
Offshore wind foes may be hoping for a construction vessel shortage to throttle down the pace of development, but Maersk has a solution.
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SurClean Laser Stripping Removes Coatings, Rust Without Chemicals
(This post is part of our series on Midwest Cleantech Open winners.) The reason you see bridges, ships, and commercial and military aircraft in the photo montage below is that this Novi, Michigan company has its sights set on doing a lot with laser stripping, which seems like amazingly little. … [continued]
Solar Yacht 300+ Feet Long Under Construction
OceanCo is building a 106-meter (348-foot) yacht with solar power capabilities for launching in 2015. The design is from Nuvolari Lenard. A steel hull will be used along with a beam of at least 15 meters. The length of the vessel, when completed, will be greater than the playing area … [continued]
Ship Shortage Could Slow Wind Power
Like the rest of Europe, the UK has a Kyoto-level ambitious renewable energy plan to reduce its CO2 emissions 20% below 1990 levels by 2020. As part of achieving this, the island nation plans to build an astonishing 32 Gigawatts of off-shore wind by 2020, enough to supply a quarter … [continued]
Company Developing Energy-Efficient Ship that Floats on Air
Rotterdam-based marine-engineering firm DK Group has been quietly testing one of the strangest-sounding technologies to come along in the recent past— a ship that floats on air. This past September, the company let loose a 272 foot long cargo vessel in Norway’s Oslo Fjord. 25 feet below the ship’s surface, … [continued]
