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SHIPS FUTURE POWER TECHNOLOGY FD Engineering: Ships of the Future ... The Coming Revolution in the Shipping Industry PLAY YOUTUBE VIDEO Original article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-v6wTuJFmPY Peter Burgess COMMENTARY Peter Burgess
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can do about this the good news is yes there [Music] is a global Industrial Revolution is underway yes we have a technological challenge for our environment for the wellbeing of the population of the planet for civilization driven by passionate dedic ated individuals intent on shaping a new 1:03 world I do it because I look at my kids and I I honestly I'm convinced that this 1:10 is the way A Cleaner World there is a way forward other than burning FAL fuels 1:16 out of our funnels A Greener World this wind farm 1:21 is producing more hours of power into the grid than all wind farms in the UK 1:28 and probably in the world what we've done in the past is not going to solve these challenges we need to find new 1:33 ways and I think the only way to do that is to bravely step forward and Implement 1:39 technology together they are pushing engineering to its limits to create extraordinary machines 1:48 that can protect our planet for the future 1:53 [Music] 2:05 [Music] 2:14 Gavin allight represents a growing number of Technology developers ship Builders and operators intent on 2:22 reshaping the future of global Shipping by harnessing a resource that 2:27 has transported humankind for [Music] 2:33 Millennia so it's strange when we look at wind farms or or wind turbines we see 2:40 those now as modern Renewable Energy Solutions but when our Mind's Eye turns 2:46 to wind powerered vessels we think of that as being old-fashioned now there are still uh 2:53 traditional sailing vessels out there delivering cargo but there's a whole new breed of Naval Architects designers who 3:02 are using cuttingedge Technologies to power the vessels of the 3:10 [Music] future this is Black Pearl the world's 3:16 largest sailing yacht many in the shipping industry believe she could form the blueprint for 3:23 a new generation of commercial sailing ships it's been 2 years years since this 3:30 extraordinary vessel took to the Sea and having proved herself on the world's oceans she's returned to Holland where 3:38 she was built for what can best be described as some fine 3:45 tuning it works well but having said that the one of the reasons we're here in Amsterdam is that we're tweaking 3:51 we're improving because we believe we can make it better Chris Gartner Skipper of Black 3:59 Pearl appreciates more than most the ancestry of this 21st century sailing 4:06 ship the inspiration comes from the clipper ships for sure the cyark or the 4:12 St Amsterdam the highp speed that they traveled super efficient using the wind 4:18 to give some idea of just how efficient these clipper ships were we need to look 4:24 no further than the Flying Cloud in 1854 she set the world record for the 4:30 fastest passage between New York and San Francisco 89 days 8 hours that record 4:39 stood for 130 years it was only surpassed in 1989 and this was a vessel with no 4:47 Motors or engines at all large wind vessels were still operating right up 4:52 until World War II these ships were seriously fast some of the Clippers 4:58 could exceed 20 he Nots many modern ships don't do that the 5:04 old sailing ships did require a large crew on Deck they'll run with about 16 5:10 people and they can drop all their sales or set their sales and appr 5:15 approximately 25 minutes then carbon fiber came and the 5:21 game changed voila we come with the dino we can maneuver the boat at Sea with one 5:28 person the diner rig system utilizes rotating 5:34 masts to achieve the optimal position for its Square Sals first conceived of in the 1960s it 5:42 was not until 40 years later that there were materials strong and lightweight 5:47 enough to be up to the job towering 232 ft above the waterline 5:55 black Pearl's three enormous masts are the largest example of the system system 6:00 by quite some margin they are built to be freestanding 6:07 and they're like a big carbon fiber fishing pole we carry 2,900 squ M of 6:13 sail area which we can deploy in just over 7 minutes but more importantly we 6:19 can frill them away or close all the sails in just under 7 Minutes being able 6:25 to react quickly to changing wind conditions makes for more efficient sailing and greater energy saving and 6:32 what's more it's all done by remote control basically you have to take three 6:38 big deep breaths before you really start exerting your finger um no but it's as simple as 6:45 that what does it feel like when we are sailing this boat uh it's incredible 6:52 just over have 24 knots is our Max under sale so far uh prediction is with the right winds and stuff we should reach 20 6:59 830 knot which is the equivalent of over 34 mph well I think we had a classic um 7:06 example on our very first voyage from Rotterdam down to jalter uh where one of 7:12 the Portuguese Coastal stations called us up um black pear black pear can you 7:17 please confirm that you are a sailing vessel yes we are a sailing vessel and there was a slight pause there and then 7:24 there was this black pearl Black Pearl are you actually sailing uh yes we are 7:29 actually sailing and at the time we were doing 22 knots I think it was and passing all the cruise ships the 7:35 container ships and the the tankers and motorboats and they just couldn't believe it that was a great 7:43 trip but the designers of black pearl were determined to take things a stage 7:51 further when under saale the propellers of the ship can be used as underwater 7:57 turbines generating [Music] 8:06 electricity let's have a look in the engine 8:11 room this is our main engine our starboard main engine attached to this 8:17 is the gearbox and on over this side our electric motor which gives our electric 8:23 propulsion when we want to drive off batteries so we have the option of running on diesel or electric or a combination of 8:32 both which gives us our maximum speed so obviously when we're driving the boat the propulsion is that way when we're 8:39 sailing and regenerating the power comes back through the shaft into the electric 8:46 motor here and is then distributed to the AC distribution board at the front of the engine room and that's how we get 8:53 our battery power and here we have the stared battery room 240 batteries lithium iron 8:59 battery a motorboat you know might do 17 18 knots as its maximum speed but majority 9:06 of the time a motorb is cruising at 12 because that's the optimum for fuel consumption and everything else so for 9:13 us to be able to do that and regenerate and not use fossil fuels is is very cool 9:19 currently the team are looking to add solar panels either to the super structure or flexible ones in the sails 9:27 and the ship has already been pre-wired to accept both options I think the ambition right at 9:34 the beginning was to be the first and set an example to our industry um and 9:39 and commercial shipping has taking it very seriously Beyond yachting the diner IG can move into the commercial side of 9:46 shipping there's already many studies done for having multiple Diner rigs 9:51 placed on large ships and a Sailing Boat can go everywhere a motorboat can go just nicer 9:59 quieter and and no 10:05 pollutions now the good news is the international Maritime organization the 10:11 IMO has set an ambitious Target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at 10:17 least 50% by the year 2050 now some shipping companies have gone beyond that 10:24 with more ambitious targets to be carbon neutral by that year but to make it it happen will require a radical 10:33 transformation let me give you a few shipping facts to set the scene to show 10:39 where shipping is at the moment over 90% of World Trade is 10:44 carried across our oceans by anywhere up to 90,000 large ships the fuel burned by many of these 10:51 ships is called heavy fuel oil that's a toxic sludge that's highly 10:57 polluting ship however is the most efficient way of moving large quantities 11:03 of goods around the world by far now obviously we can't change things 11:09 overnight so we need to be looking at transition Technologies ones that take into account the very few people have 11:17 retained those skills to operate traditional sales we need to be looking at modern 11:26 solutions just 40 m away from where black pearl is currently mored lies the 11:32 Marine Research Institute Netherlands better known as 11:37 Marin it's a world-renowned organization which for over 80 years has provided the 11:43 maritime industry with expertise and independent advice today they are at the Forefront 11:51 of research into sustainable Marine propulsion 11:57 [Music] one mistake that many people do is to 12:03 think that uh the wind is pushing a cell and that's why it's all low and that's 12:09 why you're going forward actually um it's working with suction not with pushing um the wind is blowing you have 12:16 a flow coming on a on a given object and this object is diverting the uh 12:22 diverting the flow and creating on one side a high velocity and on the other 12:27 side a lower uh small velocity it's known as the Beni 12:32 principle after an 18th century Swiss mathematician called Daniel Beni he 12:39 discovered that the faster a fluid flows the lower the pressure it's why a wing 12:45 creates lift on an aircraft the shape of the Wing makes the air flow at a faster 12:50 speed on the upper surface creating lower pressure and effectively sucking 12:56 the wing upwards [Music] in the 1980s designers began 13:02 experimenting with rigid Wings on boats so it started with simple smaller 13:09 cells in ARA but with a a metal rigid profiles and then some engineer pushed 13:15 the uh the idea further and only looked at the the way lifting surface is 13:22 working collaborating with the famous undersea Explorer Jac custo two French 13:28 Engineers came up with a rigid sail which had a perforated outer surface and 13:33 inside a fan which created suction affecting the boundary 13:39 layer this Amplified the pressure difference and increased the lift effect making it four times more effective than 13:46 the best conventional Sals of the same size and people who are looking at 13:52 traditional uh cells cannot believe that a pillar just round thing can produce 13:57 lift but it's a very smart and very powerful system and then this invasion 14:02 was just left on the side and never used again 5 six years ago we made 14:07 presentation to try to revive the idea because we were believing that was a very smart system and My Hope was that 14:14 at least one person in the room would raise his hand and say well this is a nice idea I will pick it up and apply it 14:20 on ships one man who did just that was Frank noan 14:26 house we first started on scale models uh the first one I took on top of my car 14:32 in order to see if this suction is actually working um there's quite some technology um to combine an airplane 14:39 wing which is only the wind always comes from one side and in sailing sometimes it comes from one side sometimes it 14:46 comes from the other side um also the suction technology is quite difficult and we needed to get that all in the 14:51 right balance and of course all of this we wanted to get ready as quickly as possible what they really needed was 14:59 access to an immensely powerful computer able to handle the hugely complex 15:05 calculations associated with air flow and pressure luckily for them just such a 15:12 computer is to be found at the Marin test facility we have been working with them 15:19 uh on calculations to further optimize the profile the amount of suction you should apply to boost the performance 15:26 the effect of the height of the cell and then they studied how does this suction work how does the angles work and what 15:33 is the right shape and they've been extremely helpful but even with access to a 15:39 supercomputer you still need to conduct physical experiments and if a car worked for a 15:45 small model there was no reason not to try it with something a little 15:51 larger our approach is to have a little bit of saving on many ships and we try 15:58 therefore to make systems that can be installed on the ships that are already out on the sea today we don't have to 16:04 wait to build new ships and if we want to save quickly in shipping we have to install something fast and easy things 16:11 that are produced on an industrial scale that gives you a [Music] 16:17 result one of the key issues of this Wing is that this big ventilator is 16:23 sucking out the air um from the wing and by that influencing the air flow around 16:30 the wing and it's done through these little holes here which run all the way 16:36 um through the wing and this ventilator just expels the air and throws it 16:41 outside in the bottom creating vacuum in the wing and influencing the flow the 16:47 air flow around the wing so one of the most challenging things really is to get 16:52 this big ventilator 2 and 1 half th000 kilos of Steel inside this um Wing 16:59 construction and it has to be glued in and connected to the bolts here and once it goes in we only have 10 15 minutes 17:07 before it has to be perfectly uh [Music] 17:17 aligned one of the first ships to adopt the system is the freighter 17:25 Ani you can push the start button and it will sense where the wind is and it will 17:31 position itself correctly relative to the wind this Wing can actually tack as they say in sailing so depending if the 17:38 wind is on the left side or on the right side we change the shape of the wing and the boundary layer is being sucked away 17:44 from the other side and if you suck away this boundary layer then you influence 17:49 the rest of the air flow and with the sails in operation the captain can reduce engine power and still maintain 17:57 the same speed when the ship changes Direction uh the wings are following the change of the 18:03 direction they will always keep the same heading towards the wind so the captain doesn't have to do anything other than 18:08 to decide he wants to sail or not the system's already proven itself 18:15 to be both rugged and effective from the tempestuous Seas off the African Coast 18:21 to the Arctic conditions of Northern Europe best as any sailor knows this 18:26 that when you have half wind so the wind comes from the side then the effect of wind propulsion is the best but when 18:32 it's from 25° to about 180° it works but Frank and his team weren't finished 18:39 there they had the idea to make something allog together more 18:46 [Music] 18:52 portable so this is where the magic is going to happen this is the container there will be One Wing here 18:59 and there will be One Wing down here and in the end they will open up and start saving 19:06 fuel this is the MS Royale a container barge plying the route between Amsterdam 19:13 and [Music] Harlingen so what happens is with a 19:19 normal crane they put the container on the [Music] 19:26 ship and then we press a button and the wings flap out so at that moment it's 19:31 already installed which means that any ship with a space for a container could 19:37 theoretically install a system quickly and easily the team at eono wind estimate 19:45 that in Optimum conditions a ship could reduce fuel consumption by as much as 19:52 25% however as the wind is not always consistent they predict a still 19:57 impressive average saving of around 10% in Maritime sector is pretty 20:05 conservative for good reasons I mean this is very harsh environment so it's difficult to introduce innovation in the 20:12 maritime segment so I'm extremely happy to see that uh this very smart invention 20:19 is now applied again on board ships and we're actually um discussing now about 20:24 the system it will be 20 M High One Wing will be about two and a half times the 20:30 total force of the two Wings which are in the 20:37 container what we need for wi proportion to be taken seriously is not just one or 20:42 two companies out there doing it we need a vibrant thriving industrial base with 20:50 many companies delivering many new 20:55 technologies this is the MV Copenhagen together with her sister ship Berlin she 21:02 operates on the busy route between rosock on Germany's Baltic coast and the Danish Port of 21:10 Gaza built in 2016 they're two of the largest hybrid 21:15 feries in the world able to carry 1,300 passengers and 460 21:23 cars well welcome to the battery room of the hybrid Ferry Copenhagen 21:29 a hybrid Ferry is a ferry that has a battery system installed to supply 21:35 energy when it's needed and to store energy when it's not needed scan lines 21:41 estimate that their hybrid systems reduce CO2 emissions by up to 15,000 21:46 tons a year the same amount as produced by over 340 average German 21:54 households and the journey doesn't stop here it is our overall Vision to operate 22:00 zero emission fairies but due to the energy requirements for a 2-hour voage 22:06 it it is much more uh complicated and all of the small things that add up as 22:13 efficient as she is Copenhagen wasn't originally designed to make use of the 22:18 free and abundant energy that wind provides but tonight all that is about 22:25 to change once the passengers leave the ship she'll make her way to the nearby 22:31 Dock and be fitted not with a sail but with a device first conceived of over a 22:37 century ago which works on a principle known as the Magnus 22:47 effect the Magnus effect gets its name from a German physicist named Hinrich 22:53 Gustav Magnus in 1853 he was investigating the reason why 22:58 spinning objects traveling through the air such as a spinning ball don't move in a straight line but actually follow a 23:07 curved path so what you have for example on on a football you have a forward velocity 23:14 of your ball which is rotating and the flow sees two pattern on one side a high 23:20 velocity on the other side low velocity so a lower and higher pressure and through the pressure difference you have 23:26 a side force and that's why with spinning a ball you can give a certain 23:32 trajectory if you take a mast a vertical cylinder which is rotating in Wind you 23:38 will have the same effect in the 1920s a German aircraft engineer named Anton 23:44 fler With a Little Help From a Certain Albert Einstein came up with the idea of 23:49 using just such a device to propel a ship by 1924 they'd retrofitted a 23:57 schooner with two rotors driven by an electric motor enabling it to travel at 24:03 10 knots having proved the concept worked they went on to create a three rotor 24:12 freighter but the Great Depression an abundance of cheap Fuel and no pressure 24:17 on carbon emissions meant the idea was all but doomed for decades but there was one Legacy even 24:26 today these spinning cylinders are are still called flatner 24:32 rotors it's just such a device that's to be fitted to the 24:40 Copenhagen but this Mega rotor is twice the size of those 24:47 Originals standing 98 ft high and 16 ft in diameter it's built by nor power a 24:55 Finnish company who specialize in this technology 25:00 [Music] it's an exciting day even with careful 25:07 planning for for months there's always something you can't perhaps see in 25:13 [Music] advance one angle to it is that that we 25:20 have people speaking three four languages and and people from three four 25:25 nationalities working together here 25:31 the reason why Copenhagen and Berlin are the perfect ships for this and in this case we are trying it out on Copenhagen 25:37 is because our ships are trading north south and the predominant wind is 25:43 Westerly wind so uh the wind to to have the best result out of a rotor Hill like 25:50 this one the wind should be perpendicular to the direction of the ship so uh it is the best 25:58 conditions to test something like this but for the system to be effective 26:04 it must be commercially viable such a valuable financial asset as a large ship 26:10 cannot afford to sit idle while engineering work is carried out even now 26:16 trucks booked to travel on the Copenhagen the following morning are already driving across Europe to meet 26:23 her for the installation team it's going to be a race against the CL 26:31 Lo to enable the operation to be completed as quickly and as efficiently as possible the team from nor power have 26:38 already installed the steel rotor Foundation along with the control system and power 26:47 supply with this massive uh piece of 26:52 equipment we need to be extremely careful that uh every everything is is 26:58 done [Music] 27:08 right I had a long checklist that I went through line by line to to make sure 27:13 that uh everything is is correctly attached weighing 42 tons Precision is 27:24 vital the placement of the rotor has to be millim perfect to enable it to fit 27:29 correctly to its [Music] 27:36 foundation the rotor produces such massive forces that 27:42 it is needs to be connected with with 100 really big bolts it's a job that can 27:50 only be undertaken by a crew working inside the 27:55 rotor these bolts will need to cope with the 300 K Force the rotor could 28:01 potentially generate that's the equivalent of the pressure of over 30 tons being acted upon by 28:11 gravity we are extremely excited to finally see this project uh become a 28:17 realization now and to me and my colleagues this is a way of really 28:23 showing that there is a way forward other than burning fossil fuels are of 28:28 our funnels because it's extremely visible the team will now work through 28:34 the night connecting the electrical system and tightening 28:41 bolts and tomorrow the testing will begin if successful it could Mark a new 28:48 era for scan lines whose combined Fleet transport 7 and 1/2 million passengers 28:54 and over 2 and 1/2 million Vehicles every year but the team at Norse power 29:00 are well aware that many other shipping companies around the world will be taking a very keen 29:14 interest but some ports present certain challenges to the concept challenges 29:20 that must be overcome if flatner rotors are going to be adopted universally 29:31 at a test facility on the Windswept coast of Northeastern England British company animy have developed a system to 29:39 address just such problems the anomy journey began over a 29:46 decade ago uh with a environmentally driven ship owner and a group of shipping professionals who embarked on a 29:53 mission to develop technology that would benefit the industry through reduced 29:59 emissions it was a program that would take place across the world and involve 30:04 extensive investigation into the way wind flowed around a ship's 30:11 infrastructure it was during this period that A Renewed interest in the potential of Fetner rotors began and work was 30:19 undertaken to develop an automated system compatible with the demands of 21st century 30:26 shipping the initial testing involved scale model testing you with use of wind 30:31 tunnel and 25 to1 Scale Models at uh Southampton warach Academy where 30:38 actually the scale model vessels managed to reach a speed of 17 knots with no 30:44 engine power on the lake tests it was an invaluable Proving 30:50 Ground this renowned training facility attracts ship's captains from around the 30:56 world because the handling characteristics of these large models perfectly mimics their fullsize 31:04 counterparts having perfected the theory enemy's decision as to where to put it into practice certainly can't be 31:11 described as the easy option they chose the bulk carrier 31:17 Market When developing solutions for these ship types the crane operations 31:22 govern so much so having a large static structure on the deck of the ship would 31:28 not be an idea that you could sell to 31:36 anybody a folding rotor was one of a number of options developed and being 31:42 able to test prototypes such as this one for prolonged periods of time has provided a wealth of essential 31:48 performance data the maximum RPM of this particular rotor you can see in the background is 31:55 450 RPM now the relationship between wind speed and uh rotor RPM is quite 32:02 important in terms of the performance the surface speed of the rotor typically has to be somewhere between three and 32:08 five times the wind speed that's pretty much the general Target but the owners of the 64,000 ton 32:16 MV Aros needed something even more flexible they needed the ability to 32:22 actually move the rotors so we developed a new solution 32:28 which enables the rotors to be transported along the deck forward after to avoid cargo 32:35 operations the system employs a series of trolleys on Rails when the ship is 32:41 loading or unloading the rotors can be moved into positions which best suit cargo operations whether that be 32:48 offshore or in Port upon leaving the rotors are then 32:54 moved into their operational position and mechanically locked locked onto the 33:01 deck the system is very easy to operate for the crew on board the system takes 33:06 care of most facets of the operation including starting and stopping choosing 33:13 what rotational speed to go at which direction to rotate in effectively the crew can turn the rotors on leaving Port 33:21 the control system will take care of everything so for the crew it's a very simple task 33:29 so fletter rotors provide most thrust in stronger winds so our rotors have been 33:35 designed to operate safely in wind speeds up to 35 m/ second which is a very strong wind they have also been 33:42 designed to operate in heavy weather so when the ship motions are are quite 33:49 large the wind direction also plays its part and the ideal wind direction is 33:55 from the beam of the vessel so coming from 90° or just behind in those 34:01 conditions strong winds from the beam you end up with very high fuel savings and Savings in fuel means a 34:08 corresponding reduction of emissions uh we believe that the savings 34:15 can be anywhere between 5 and 30% depending on the number of variables I think in shipping as you've 34:22 seen with the wind industry and the wind turbine industry um bigger is proving to 34:27 be better but with ships there are limitations on operations so there will be a ceiling of where you can go with 34:33 wind propulsion but I don't think we're we've we've reached that ceiling [Music] 34:47 yet back in the Baltic the new silhouette of the MV Copenhagen has been 34:53 drawing much attention in the shipping world the road installation was 34:58 scheduled to be completed in just one night with the ship needed in service 35:03 the following morning there was no margin for error remarkably though the team was 35:10 able to meet this ambitious Target with room to 35:16 spare it didn't last more than I would say 10 hours or so then the rotor was on 35:24 baled and we could go again at the moment it's the height of summer when 35:29 the prevailing winds are at their lightest but the crew have wasted no time in testing the system ready for 35:36 when the winds become [Music] 35:45 stronger of course the idea with this rotor is that it's fully automatic so 35:51 normally we do not have to do anything it just runs in the background we have 35:56 done some test testing to prove the efficiency on a cruising we have been 36:03 stopping the rotor see what will happen and we realized that the ship speed went 36:08 down with had half a knot then we started again and we gained the half a 36:15 not so it actually works we still need to see the the good 36:21 season for it U but we have already seen promising results with the installation 36:27 of this road the expectation is that we will save up to 5% on our fuel oil but a 36:34 5% uh fuel saving is also a 5% emissions 36:41 saving although the rotor may be huge its control panel is remarkably 36:48 small it not only automatically controls when and how fast to spin the rotor but 36:55 it also provides valuable data about all aspects of its 37:01 performance but how has such a large addition to the super structure affected 37:06 the ship's [Music] 37:14 handling uh we feel a little difference it's not much um we can 37:21 see uh when the rotor starts then the ship will heal a little in high winds it 37:28 will heal more up to 2° we have seen so the one thing we have to do every time 37:35 the rotor starts is that we have to move some ballast water so for our customers 37:42 they will not notice because this ship will always be even ke and we see we can 37:50 see when when we have a high winds in Gaza our smallest Port we also feel that 37:56 we have to work a little more with the maneuvering in the same way that a wheel 38:03 of a car requires balancing to avoid vibration so the giant spinning rotor 38:08 has required a little fine tuning as well but that has been finally completed 38:14 today now when we have uh made the last Corrections that makes it possible to uh 38:21 run even faster the most Optimum speed with the 38:26 rotor we acknowledge is a technology that has been around for 100 years but 38:32 so far very few commercial operators have had the courage to actually uh try 38:37 it in a live environment we sincerely believe that we are in the right spot uh 38:43 we are the right size of ship to make this a a success I I 38:50 can't um explain how thrilled I am to to be given the opportunity uh to to run 38:57 run a project like this to be allowed to do things that are good for the 39:02 environment it's good for the company as well and it draws a lot of positive attention we have to say it is fantastic 39:09 in in all 39:18 respects but it's not just how ships are propelled that is currently undergoing a 39:23 revolution it's also where they sail and and when in the 21st century we have 39:31 advantages that even 50 years ago would have been Unthinkable by making use of 39:37 ocean currents it's possible for ships to make significant Energy savings but 39:43 how do you monitor these everchanging currents in real time in order to be of use to ship's 39:51 captains so our system is about uh measuring uh ocean surface currents by 39:58 observing how the vessels ships are behaving or they move around and we do 40:05 that by analyzing marine traffic information so every single commercial 40:11 vessel has a beacon which broadcast Real Time its position its speed and some 40:17 information it's called AIS automatic identification system which is uh to 40:22 avoid collision between vessels we utilize 120 ,000 vessels continuously 40:29 sailing around the world and sending their position every 2 minutes and this 40:34 information is collected by some telecommunication satellites and we get this data into our server and with our 40:41 processing system so we learn with some machine learning algorithm from the way 40:46 the vessels are behaving and we deduce uh the ocean current that the vessels 40:52 are going through and with access to accurate information about currents 40:57 ship's captains can alter course to either avoid adverse currents or take 41:02 advantage of favorable ones it's estimated that if applied to shipping globally it could reduce Fuel and 41:10 Emissions by 5% however on some routes those savings can increase to as much as 41:17 15% and this is just on conventional powered ships without taking into 41:22 account the additional benefits that wind assisted propulsion would bring but 41:27 for Global Industries which have grown used to a just in time delivery of parts and materials there are still huge 41:35 questions to be resolved if we are to achieve a new Greener 41:40 future what if there's no wind or the wind's blowing in the wrong direction 41:46 well in that case we need a hybrid approach 41:57 this is energy Observer a French vessel which is 42:02 halfway through an extraordinary 7year 42:11 Odyssey energy Observer is a floating laboratory the idea is to test different 42:18 Technologies constantly and improve them and to work hand inand with the maritime 42:24 industry to help them find ways to limit their impact it's also a media boat so 42:32 the idea is to be able to communicate and educate people about renewable 42:38 energy everywhere we go so the boat evolves all the time it's a work in 42:48 progress the project is the brainchild of Master Mariner Victorian erosad and 42:54 journalist filmmaker and Explorer Jerome delaos and the boat reflecting the ethos 43:02 of the mission is of course recycled energy Observer was built in 43:10 1983 in Canada the her first name was 43:15 formul tag and it was one of the first big big racing catas and it's 43:21 basically a boat that we completely refitted I mean the boat was a wreck when we got it 43:28 turning a racing machine into a laboratory meant doubling its weight to 30 tons which in turn required putting 43:36 in extra foam to keep it afloat but it was necessary as it gave the boat the 43:41 ability to install test and adapt a wide variety of 43:48 Technology but as with all experiments it's often as useful to see what doesn't 43:54 work for example we try the iCal axis wind turbines and I think it's not a 44:01 solution for this type of ship other things have worked so well that the decision was taken to increase 44:08 their use at the beginning we had only 100 S M of solar panels and now we have 44:16 more than 200 square m the good thing about energy Observer is that they're 44:22 prepared to try new approaches new technologies that may not be ideal for 44:27 them but could be solutions for others the Kate system is a solution but it's 44:34 not a solution for us at the beginning because we sail uh along the coast along 44:40 the European coast and is a solution for the offshore navigation for example when 44:46 you cross the Atlantic and after we want to try another technology and it's 44:52 impossible on this ship to to keep all the technology because of because the weight is too important while kite Sals 45:00 may not have been ideal for the energy Observer they are being tested on larger 45:05 ships one benefit being that they're an offthe deck system an offthe deck system 45:11 means they don't take up valuable deck space which could be very beneficial for things like container 45:20 vessels having now been fitted with highly efficient rigid sails called ocean wings energy Observer can use its 45:28 propeller and electric motors to generate electric power while sailing 45:34 much like black pearl however what has got so many in 45:39 the maritime World excited is what they do with the electricity they 45:45 generate with that um energy we take sea water we Des salize 45:53 it we demineralize it then it goes through a electrolyzer which divides the 46:00 molecule of water into H2 and oxygen the oxygen we let go and then we'll we'll be compressing the hydrogen in eight tanks uh which are at the front of the boats and this ship energy Observer she's the first ship able to make her hydrogen on board working with Toyota they installed a new highly efficient hydrogen fuel system cell which uses the hydrogen they create and store to produce electricity which can then be used to power the electric [Music] motors the maintenance of of these type of Technologies are very very easy you don't have oil you don't have noise you don't have a fine particle everywhere in the ship so it's very clean in of is a future when we started energy Observer 47:00 the maritime industry was kind of laughing at us I mean they were like yeah whatever I mean this is just it's peanuts it's never going to work but because we've proved the energy mix that we've implemented on the ship Works they're really interested and now they're like oh so how can we Implement how can we have hydrogen on board how can we um add solar panels how can we reduce our emissions by using the ocean for instance so we're only at the beginning of this phase but it's very very [Music] exciting so successful has this project been that it spawned energy Observer developments which is creating a range of commercial applications based on Lessons Learned From hydrogen generators to floating green hydrogen fuel stations but the crew know from firsthand experience it's a Race Against Time and one that 48:00 none of us can afford to lose when you see the glasses it's absolutely breathtaking but at the same time you know that the polar bears are all dying that and that the glaas are all melting so you know how fragile they are because they're all disappearing as we're exploring thanks to the efforts and research of just such Pioneers there are now many in the shipping industry that are daring to believe believe that the next decade could be one of transformation so a lot of people ask me is this really going to happen is this not just a fantasy well my answer to that is it's already happening year on Year we're seeing momentum growing a doubling of installations every year and that trend is set to continue really it's it's it's a not only transition an energy transition pattern but is really a revolution so we are going to see new type of ships but what people will 49:04 mainly see I think is the fact that uh large wind power device will be installed on board ships the bigger the better if you want to catch a lot of wind you will need at the end quite some area they might not be sales like the ctis ark but I think this will be quite welcome by everybody to see sales again on ships can wind do the heavy lifting on its own of course not alternative low carbon and zero emissions fuels are really going to be necessary too we know that we will need different types of power so the new vessels will be much more complex I would say in terms of design and Engineering because they will have to cope with different sources of energy you will have to handle them smartly typically with wind because the shortest route will not be the best route it's been estimated that by 2015 50 wind could provide up to a third of the energy required by the maritime industry with some new designs on certain routs getting as much as 80% of 50:07 their energy from the wind well by 2050 we could be seeing vessels that have um far more hydrodynamic and aerodynamic hulls the hull itself functioning as a wing sail perhaps we will be seeing things like Kites and suction Wings being standard equipment on vessels we need to dare to go ahead at very high pace so that means also taking risk but um we have no choice it has to happen and it has to happen extremely quickly at this moment in terms of climate change or loss of diversity and all the issues related to human activity I mean it would be hard to make larger mistakes the basket of solutions that we see coming for shipping will allow to transport goods from a to be on the planet without producing any armful emissions and this is a very nice Horizon not only for the shipping but for all mankind [Music]

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