Pyxis Ocean sets sail with ground-breaking wind technology. 

In 2023, we discover that wind could help us get ships over the ocean at no costs. Looking forward to people racing with boats dedicated to this. We could name them sailing boats 👍

Wow, using wind power to propel ships, we're really living in the future.

We’ve officially come full circle

My friend is a part of this initiative. So happy and proud of what their team has achieved. Way to go.

Congratulations to Cargill and all other people involved in this project. I am happy to see progress.

I've been reading about the potential of this technology for 20 years. I'm very glad to see it finally tested in the real world.

Wow who would of thought we were going back to the 1700s!

Wind powered ships. The technology of the future. The future is now.

Damn who would think in move boats with wind

I bet that will still be the only wind powered cargo ship a decade from now, wait and see.

So innovative. Much more efficient than whichever method they used a couple hundred years ago.

The "wind wing" seems to just be a new expensive sail that a team of marketing majors got a hold of

New Golden Age of Sail?

They finally understand the tech from 3500bc

very disappointing the video does not explain how the whole thing works.

So we’re going back to sails

Wait till they get their first TRS. I spent my entire working life at sea as an Engineer. Those railings you see along the ship's side - called handrails - for obvious reasons - I have seen these stripped away from the deck , as well as pipework and heavy damage to other fixed structures - by heavy seas and hurricane force winds. Big structures like these sails when stowed will be easy meat for the wind. Tropical Rotating Storms - aka TRS are common, as are headwinds, when this technology is useless, so it still needs a large marine diesel engine. I would assume that if they have put in a lot of calcuation as to the benefits, then they would have also thought about the negative effects of having a large resistance of the stowed sails that in a head wind , would result in increased fuel consumption, or a reduction of speed that will eat into the shipowner's profits due to delayed delivery. Nobody mentions that. Saving 3 tonnes of fuel a day might seem impressive to a shore wallah, but savings like these can be made by shaving a point of a knot off the voyage speed and by having an experienced Master who knows the winds and currents. I find the guy's claim of saving tonnes of CO2 emissions per day a bit fantastic in the original meaning of the word, but I need to revisit my old Thermodynamics textbook to bone up on my stoichiometric calculations to be sure. I know from my own experience how to massage statistics to get the results I want. It is a great propaganda exercise though - the tree huggers will be ecstatic and will envision the entire marine fleet being retrofitted with planet saving fibreglass sails. Lets see how long these sails last in service.

Amazing. Hats of to the engineers making this possible

Shiver me Timbers!

These would look good atop an oil super tanker.

Amazing - hope this is the first of many more to come. Looks super cool too!

Amazing Technologie, Congratulation to the development and enphase on this way.

1 ton per day isn’t enough of a saving when the ships burns 50+ tons per day

Soooooo........sails are not new lol......Great idea and let's hope it works but let's not be claiming we have reinvented the wheel 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

I am a total idiot here, but can someone explain why old fashioned sails can't be used? 10x

That 1.5 ton of saved fuel, how much of the total fuel per day is used? And how much of this "saving" you need, in order to cover the construction of sails?

All leisure cruises should be powered like so

Unlike some "green" ideas, this one is going to change the shipping industry.

WE ARE SO BACK MATEYS

I wish these companies would be honest and say that they are trying to reduce fuel costs, rather than trying to save the planet.

A boat powered by the WIND?! Amazing what we can do these days. If you'd told me twenty years ago that there would be boats powered by the wind, I would have said you were crazy, because everyone knows that, what are you, nuts? : )

For anyone that's curious. These ships use a 100 tons of fuel a day. And these sails save 3 tons.

Wow, if only the first oceanic explorers knew about this incredible technology back then. They wouldn’t have needed to use nearly as much fuel to find the new world. Really remarkable tech.

Inventing wind power for ships.... ITS A SAIL BOAT.

Amazing how Martin Whitmarsh is all but a cameo in this

Amazing! Cargill is my best client

Given there are far more days without enough wind than there are days with too much wind, in a favourable direction, how much fuel is used giving these contraptions a free ride for the majority of the time?

so, just remind me what was the "age of sail"

Innovation means going back to sailing

My only question is how do you recycle the sails when replaced or are they like Wind Turbine blades that cant be recycled and they are just trash no one wants!

Antes de los motores TODOS los barcos se impulsaban con energía eólica, no veo de dónde digan que es lo más innovador del momento.

What a time to be alive

Can ships burn the same amount of fuel and use the sails to go faster instead?

What happens in hurricane force winds at sea? What contingency plan in place in such scenarios? What happens when the ship rolls heavily and shipping heavy seas on main deck ? How are these wind sails protected ?

I love how all these comments are just boiling this revelation down to "putting sails on a ship? what a marvel idea!" despite the insane level of engineering know-how required to make it work for a modern freight ship.

Would be interesting to see how these fair in rougher seas and high winds, as well as docking and being able to unload cargo with these retrofitted

The principles of aerodynamics and wing shapes are well established, so the questions are around engineering and modelling to achieve very good efficiency and the flexibility that is required to deal with what a ship must contend with in terms of maneuvering and weather. (That -I expect is where the big challenges exist.)

This is awesome!

Is not to late !! I never understand why they didnt doing that before.. Japan People do it on two boat during the 70's Really great but now they must put solar panel on that to take more instant power of propulsion 👍

“R2, we need to be going up, not down”

I could imagine Green Hydrogen powered engines with sail assist used to bring us into a green low emmisions cargo transport future. 😎🇦🇺

Fascinating. I hope this is a success!

This is Ancient technology. It has been superseded by nearly 100 commercial ships using Flettner Rotors over the last 15 years. Rotors provide 7 times the power from the same size, can be lowered and moved out of the way while loading/unloading, computer operated, and not requiring directional trimming or adjustment. This is a dead end project,

the part about it can be retrofittet to an allready build ship might just be the second best part, the fuel saving is the first.

Since speed of wind increases with height. Would this not be a something to explore as well?

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It's funny how we're going back on old technologies

wonder how it actually works. need full vid for this

Somebody needs to do a study, about how much deck space these things take up, and how much that reduces cargo capacity, and how many more ships have to be built, and fueled, to make up for that, and how that compares to the fuel savings. Not forgetting, of course, the energy cost of making, and operating, and maintaining these devices. So let's don't pat ourselves on the back too hard just yet. This may turn out to be a thing, and that would be good. Or, like most things, it may turn out not to be a thing at all.

Wonder what's the visibility like on the bridge, and if the radar has an extra dead zone

Now hope it won't be used as just an extra onboard to get there faster

Would love to see this vessel in heavy seas

How much does the oil consumption or extra weight of the metal spark plugs increase and how much will the cost per m2 used by them?

We need a quick solution now for retrofitting existing ships and see factual reduction. This technology could be really have an impact if people finally do things and not just come up with some fairy tales like E-fuels or fusion.

How will. It perform in rough seas

Please tell me this is a late April fools... Because otherwise WTF.

0:55 is that Martin Whitmarsh?

I think k I remember in history class that we already used wind to move ships!!!!

👏👏👏👏Ficaria mais resistente se “amarrasse” uma vela a outra na parte de cima com uma viga metálica .

the contrast between the faded paint on the ship and the new modern solid sails... they may need to redesign future ships

It still has a decent funnel. No technical data on sails, how much power do they give etc. Seems to be just another advertisement with no real tech behind.

Why something like this over an actual sail? No fabric that could handle the wind pressure at that size?

Brazo de palanca ...al primer ventarrón vuelca 😂

Zitat aus einem "Futurzone - Artikel" Laut Betreiber Cargill konnten dadurch im Schnitt 3 Tonnen Treibstoff pro Tag eingespart werden, was in etwa 14 Prozent des Verbrauchs ist und gut 11 Tonnen CO2 pro Tag einspart. Wie können 3 Tonnen eingesparter Treibstoff, 11 Tonnen CO2 einsparen

Reminds me of E-Ship 1 of Enercon, using Fletcher rotors. Exciting and much needed innovation!

So you reinvented sails?

Slap some solar panels on those sails, and you will benefit even more.

"What a fascinating, modern age we live in."

The price for each sail seems to be unreleased to the enquiring public. No mention of it anywhere that I can find. Kept out of the picture then. Were it say US$3 million each, such a cost to have 1 unit supplied & fitted, at currently a price of US$500 per ton of Heavy Fuel Oil (HFO). We hear it would save an acclaimed 1.5 tons of HFO per day. So a $750 saving per day for 1 sail. This then when we work it out would take about 4,000 days to even break even. Around 11 years. BUT, looking at it all, the ship would likely need a TECHNICIAN on board, or rather 2 on 12hr shifts to look after the sails, at least that amount, that wouldn't come cheap would it. Easily eating in to the $750, or rather if 2 sails utilised the $1500 per day saving. THEN there would be the servicing costs of the sails with the longer term cost of replacement of the units. Corrosive effects of being seaborne and any subsequent damage, accidental or otherwise. So all in all, no one aught to expect any financial savings, as there may be even a negative cost involved. Rather as it is said there are savings in having less pollution. Or rather on PAPER there is. Of cause there is a formula I have that is: People = Pollution. And we cannot get away from the fact that the use of international shipping with or without sails contribute towards an INCREASE of people. Therefore more pollution. ESPECIALLY there is more pollution if shipping the commodity of OIL, to be used as some form of fuel. The use of shipping also contributing to the DEVELOPMENT of a Nation and therefore even MORE pollution. So there may well be a widely acclaimed less CO2 and other toxic substances produced with these wind sails fitted specifically amongst the shipping community. But long term, there would be even more SHIPPING in terms of number of vessel's and even more pollution caused by the production & use of the particular goods/fuel transported. On the whole then, when logically looking at these matters I consider it to be a bit of an eco PR gimmick. An unsavoury and indeed an unpalatable conclusion it may well be all intere$ted partie$ & well wishers. But this is the truth of the matter that they cannot get away from, no matter their stated intent & public goodwill towards it all. People = Pollution. All those really interested in having less pollution in the World should consider putting their efforts in to pressurising World Authorities in to rubbing out the Population increases they have already pencilled in, setting it lower.

Finally 🎉

I'm just here for the comment section 😂

Look how much surface there is on that ship, the solar panels could be used for electric engines much smaller that conventional… also it could be used to extract hydrogen from the salt water to be used for propulsion…

Very cool!

🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤ que show

And what if the sails would have been solar panels too. Generating electricity to generators.

Nice technology, but Cargill could do even better if it stopped deforestating in Brasil...

Non-engineer here - erm how are they balanced on the deck, how do they not make the ship list to one side? How heavy are they?

Let's provide perspective. 1.5 tonnes of fuel per wing per day. So 3 tonnes of fuel per day. Through a quick search I found that cargo ships use roughly anywhere from 150-300 tonnes of fuel per day. So we can call this 0.5-1% fuel savings. Additionally, as of the time of posting I found fuel prices to cost anywhere from $600-715/tonne. That means that the wings are saving about $1800-2200/day. I don't have numbers for what these cost, but I found that grid-scale wind turbine blades (another suitably large wind energy-capturing mechanism) can cost at least $150k each. Let's put that together and estimate the cost of a 3-faced "sail" (call it for what it is, a high-tech sail) at at least $500k each, or over $1mil for both sails, though the real cost is likely much greater. With our fuel-savings cost estimate, this could pay back within 1.5-2 years, which if true would be pretty phenomenal savings. More realistically, if the sail costs were double or triple that then the fuel-savings breaks even after a much longer time frame, looking at 3-5 years or even longer. Unless companies are projecting for CO2e emissions costs I don't know if that is a viable payback for companies to install these beyond adding it to a few vessels for some good PR. I love this concept, but I don't see this being regularly adopted without the price of fuel shooting up dramatically or ports adding carbon taxes/levies to encourage CO2e reduction.

Cool, but can it run Crysis?

Great, they have just ruined teh awesome view from the bridge!

Just my two cents, but they should have tried to figure out to effectively dock it onto existing ships that intend on crossing an ocean...this will only be a hinderance for ships traversing rivers/canals/seas. Thinking tug boat even.

You can coat them with solar cells for additional energy...

NO!

Whats the payback threshold on this? 5,000 years? 10,000 years? 😂

Why not use hydrogen?

It's called a sail boat

So0 how’s this work in off season when the winds change or aren’t consistent with the direction that needs heading? Sailing was part of the standard but is more restricted to the weather conditions. Can’t sail if there’s no wind, which happens. Take longer to sail if the wind isn’t going in your direction… how shipping supposed to account for more days at sea considering spoilage? A 30 day trip is now 50? Eh, cool how much are those solid sails? $$$ tech is expensive, likely tax right off for the owner as his captain still uses the engines when the sailing system fails or is unusable.

I have one on my car.

This technology was used 1000 years ago you talented boys... just saying

subsidized, so may go the way of the wind turbines