In 2013, Norway’s Lade AS unveiled designs for Vindskip, a “hybrid” merchant ship which aims to harness the wind courtesy of a specially-shaped hull, in the process taking the burden off of its natural-gas powered engines and saving fuel. Researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute’s Center for Maritime Logistics and Services (CML) have been working to help realize this goal by developing an algorithm that will allow the Vindskip’s navigation system to use the combination of power and sail at its most economical.
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