New ship designs are starting to use wind energy to reduce the amount of fuel consumption.
It doesn't look like traditional sails, but large spinning rotors that interact with the wind to propel the ship forward. It's called the Magnus effect.
This link has more info on it including some of the challenging issues of actually implementing it on large commercial ships.
It doesn't look like traditional sails, but large spinning rotors that interact with the wind to propel the ship forward. It's called the Magnus effect.
This link has more info on it including some of the challenging issues of actually implementing it on large commercial ships.
https://www.marineinsight.com/naval-architecture/flettner-ro...