Category: Technology

Hamburg: Hapag-Lloyd plans sailing container ships

Hamburg: Hapag-Lloyd plans sailing container ships

Gepostet von | 18 Dec 2023 | , , , | 0

The Hamburg-based shipping company Hapag-Lloyd says it is working on plans for cargo ships with sail propulsion. Specifically, this involves container ships with a length of around 260 metres and a capacity of 4,500 containers. A total of eight masts will be distributed between the container stacks, four on the port side and four on the starboard side. The sails will be pulled out of the mast like a roller blind (furling main) and set automatically from the deck. This means that a ship planned in this way will have more sail area than the German Navy's training ship, the "Gorch Fock". In addition, an engine will be installed that can run on green methanol (e-fuel). In the coming months...

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Nordholz: World's most modern helicopter simulator handed over

Nordholz: World's most modern helicopter simulator handed over

Gepostet von | 15 Dec 2023 | , , | 0

A dream birthday "I had a dream," said Captain Broder Nielsen, Commander of the Naval Aviation Command in Nordholz, at the ceremonial handover of the simulator for the NTH Sea Lion from CAE to the German Navy on 14 December. The creation of the world's most modern simulator for helicopters turned out differently than he had dreamed, but was nevertheless a day of great joy. "We have put up with three decades of deficits," he said, and now this result is "top notch". The state-of-the-art flight simulator centre is also attractive for young people who want to choose the navy and aviation. Relieved,...

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Seabed Infrastructure Security: Northern Europe gets going!

Seabed Infrastructure Security: Northern Europe gets going!

Gepostet von | 13 Dec 2023 | , , , | 0

Six northern European countries (Denmark, Germany, Finland, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden) are intensifying their cooperation in the field of maritime infrastructure. One part of this is the Seabed Security Experimentation Centre (SeaSEC), which has just been inaugurated in The Hague. The establishment of the SeaSEC is part of the Northern Naval Capability Cooperation (NNCC), which was officially ratified in Washington in early December 2023. The NNCC was established to strengthen the northern maritime industry and develop the best available systems and equipment. Rethinking PPPs Public, private and military partners are now working together to examine how important underwater infrastructure such as data cables, pipelines and platforms for fossil fuels and...

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Ocean Thermal Energy: The infinite power source?

Ocean Thermal Energy: The infinite power source?

Gepostet von | 7 Dec 2023 | , , | 0

Energy from seawater Tropical oceans absorb 278 petawatts (1PW = 1000 terawatts) of solar energy every day. Just a fraction of this energy would be enough to cover the world's daily electricity needs. The British company Global OTEC (Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion) wants to tap into this enormous source of energy and put a floating ocean thermal power plant into operation by 2025. Concept The OTEC principle is not really new. The first trials and experiments were carried out back in 1981. OTEC works best in marine areas with high temperature differences. In the tropics, for example, the temperature of the surface water is 25 degrees or more, while at a depth of 800 metres it is only 4 degrees...

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