Wouldn't this save a lot of oil? Why aren't these a thing anymore?
nobody knows how to build them now
>>534799322"Lost technology." Columbus never went to America.
Google before making dumb threadshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVdVGniJNgU
>*rapes you*
>>534799322You may have noticed that modern ships are a lot heavier and can't have downtime waiting for the wind.
>>534799322Because they require a competent crew, not a bunch of indians.
>>534799390Aha, where are they now?
>>534799322they actually have modern designs for sails that help freight ships in part along with the more normal engines
>>534799427Why not? Tell consumerist pigs to wait.
>>534799454JUST USE AI TO STEER IT
>>534799322because the men aboard would be too easily tempted into a life of piracy
>>534799322That is a tiny baby ship compared to modern tankers
>>534799552The Internet on the sea isn't that good. NES roms maybe.
>>534799322Wouldn't this take 6 months to sail from England to the bottom of the world (Australia)? Lucky just to keep afloat.
>>534799322sails are making a comeback actually. they put them on existing cargo vessels but also new vessels are being sold with integrated sails and the interest in them is growing because of the high oil prices
>>534799322I can't get 2-3 day shipping ordering from a company that uses a fucking sailboat.
They will be once the oil runs out and 99% of the population dies out with it. It will be wild living in the post fossil fuels world.
>>534799830How is this a bad thing?
>>534799830they still have their combustion engines too anon
>>534799840Indians live off cow dung. They aren't going anywhere.
>>534799454Actually the opposite knobhead. These modern ships are exclusively crewed by retarded streetshitters, true sailing on the other hand is difficult and requires hard men.
>>534799322>where do they store the oil and massive containers>how do they keep up speed when wind is badWhile it had soul its useless now.
>>534799454fuck I just read your post again and realised your saying exactly the same thing I was trying to say. I've been drinking all day man my bad.
>>534799885Imagine having to wait 2-3 weeks for your home dermal glaze kit to arrive,It wouldn't make in in time for the prom.
>>534799986If only it was produced locally and not in China!
>>534799322Thirty men come on me boat. Then the Thirty men came on me boat. At middle passage near the azores…. During the blackest night. A white squall hit me crew. The kraken took me boat beneath the water. Tentacles wrapped around the yardarm. I be on the only Survivor. The beak snap a man in two like driftwood. Adrift on a raft scavenged from waste from India. A testament lest ye be warned of the true nature of the way she be.
>>534799943That's what he said, you're the fuckin knobhead
Cargo ships should be nuclear and protected under international treaty as nuclear assets. Paramilitaries from the flagged nation would defend the ship at sea like they would a nuclear site including marines, air, and naval support.Having nuclear containerships would be so "based" I do not even know where to begin. The engines could run at such insane speed and duration, perhaps even remove the need for docking and refueling entirely; the vessels could be catamarans which fling their detachable cargo nacelle into the waiting arms of tugs. The next load of cargo being towed up to speed in freight vessel's path through the designated harbor.Nuclear power plants turn their energy from heat to steam to mechanical energy to electrical energy. At sea running the propeller is tapping the chain further up resulting a massive power efficiency. A nuclear reactor at sea becomes a self-sufficient microstate. They become a mobile city, I dream of a future with floating "Kowloon Walled City" vessels.
>>534799943>>534799981No, you were right the first time. These modern sailing ships are easy af to man, you can even automate most of it now.
>>534799322They are slow as fuck for even light ships (picrel). They wouldn't generate enough power to push those tankers filled to the brim.>make more of themThere are more costs associated with ships than just fuel cost. It doesn't make sense to use these anymore, unless diesel suddenly becomes like a thousand times more expensive.
>>534799322Because the elite hates free people who don't buy their fucking oil...
>>534799322kino but slow
>>534799943>>534799454>pole understands english better than aussieDo zoomers really?
>>534801396I don't and they do hate me. Get yourself a bike.
>>534799322Ships run on bunker oil. Sludge really. And the mileage is astounding.You could convert every freighter to sail and save about enough oil to run all the cars for about a year. Not really worth it.Plus sails and rope take oil to make. Not to mention the huge increase in crew you have to have, plus they are at the mercy of the winds making trade even less efficient.Any other dumb questions?
>>534801506>Plus sails and rope take oil to make.I thought they grow from ground. Use hemp ropes.
>>534801581Sure sure, just cut down about an extra 1000 acres of forest a day, youd have to replace hemp made sails after every crossing. Hemp is fine for clothes, and small scale industrial use, it's worthless for big jobs. Degrades too fast
>>534801581HMS Victory had 26 MILES of rope. The avg freighter is like 50 HMS Victorys.
>>534799322You need army of highly skilled sailors working around the clock to manage this slow piece of shit that just stops moving when the winds stop. It's not 1650. I can look at world on google maps.
>>534803702Sounds like new jobs for the economy :)
>>534799322They're slow and they get shipwrecked and they sometimes get marooned at sea by doldrums.
>>534799322One bulk mass carrier needs like 5 crewmembers
>>534804510Why aren't pirates takim them over then? Sounds easy.
>>534803791More jeets saar thanks polish retard saaaaaar.
>>534799322because nobody is going to commission a sailing boat over a modern boatit will take longer, is more risky, can't carry as much etc. You'd be limited by where the winds were blowing. Your first 10 jobs would be trash because you'd be rediscovering the unwritten operational knowledge that these sailors had.The fractionally higher cost of fuel is much cheaper than the aforementioned.Even when reserves stop getting tapped and we feel the full brunt of the biggest energy crisis ever, nobody will commission your wooden sailing boat.
>>534799322Just chop down a fuckload of trees and rape the fields of cotton so you can build your ships to go and shit up the pristine waters Because thats good for the environment
Fuel oil like coal is nearly unlimited that is the secret you can't know.All anti fossil fuels causes are funded by fossil fuel companies.Heck even the word fossil in fossil fuels is a misnomer oil is being made in real time and the basins are so big they have tidal pattens.
