00:00 Notice anything different about this carrier ship?
00:03 It's been fitted with two special sails called wind wings,
00:07 which study how harnessing wind power can cut emissions
00:10 and energy usage in the shipping sector.
00:13 This voyage is the five-year-old Pixis Ocean's first
00:16 with its new sails.
00:18 A first of many as the maritime industry as a whole
00:21 explores new technologies in an attempt to move away
00:25 from dirty bunker fuel.
00:27 - The maritime industry's got a decarbonization challenge
00:29 ahead of it.
00:31 This is not gonna solve the problem entirely,
00:33 but it's a step in the right direction.
00:36 - Cargill, one of the world's largest shipping charters,
00:39 has been developing the Pixis Ocean's
00:41 nearly 125-foot-tall wind wings pilot project for years.
00:46 It's a course companies in the maritime industry
00:49 have been forced to take as investors
00:51 and environmental groups push them
00:54 to accelerate decarbonization in an industry
00:57 which accounts for nearly 3% of global CO2 emissions.
01:01 But as new technologies blossom,
01:04 the idea of harnessing wind for energy is an old one.
01:08 Before the switch to steam and diesel engines,
01:10 wind was once the common way of propelling ships.
01:14 - It is a kind of back to the future, if you like.
01:16 - Simon Schofield is the chief technology officer
01:19 at Bar Technologies, the company that developed
01:22 wind wing sails, which were then built
01:24 by Norway's Yara Marine Technologies.
01:26 - When you see an aircraft come to land
01:28 and it deploys its leading edge flap
01:31 and its flaps at the back when a plane lands,
01:34 we do something very, very similar,
01:36 which allows us to control what we call the camber,
01:39 the shape of the wing, which controls the amount of power.
01:42 Then we can align the wing at any direction
01:45 compared to the wind direction.
01:48 And this is done all automatically,
01:49 and it maximizes the amount of energy
01:51 we're effectively harvesting from the wind.
01:54 - The sails don't only cut down CO2 emissions,
01:57 Schofield adds, it also cuts down
01:59 how much fuel they purchase.
02:01 He says the Pyxis Ocean can save up to 40%
02:04 of fuel consumption, which he believes
02:06 is a step in the right direction,
02:08 considering how expensive fuel has become.
02:11 - This has got the potential to be mainstream.
02:13 Obviously, it doesn't suit all vessels
02:16 because of practical reasons,
02:18 but certainly on bulk carriers and tankers,
02:21 we can see a large proportion of new builds
02:23 and a huge number of retrofits in the coming years
02:27 being fitted with wind technology of one sort or another,
02:31 both from an environmental standpoint,
02:34 but also as the cost of fuels become more expensive,
02:38 and especially the adoption of future fuels,
02:42 it's gonna mean that it becomes economically
02:44 a bit of a no-brainer as well.
02:46 - Cargo says the Pyxis Ocean
02:48 will sail from Singapore to Brazil
02:50 and is then likely to transport a cargo of grain
02:53 to Denmark.
02:54 The vessel is said to then remain
02:56 in the North Atlantic area to maximize wind usage.
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