“We've put a rotor on the bow ... the container stacks ... the wind will obviously kind of get stuck there and that will create higher winds around the rotor”

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mounted a rotor sail on the bow of a container ship where no containers are present, using the wind trapped by the container stacks to create higher wind speeds for the rotor

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“The control system will understand where the wind is blowing and it will speed the rotor up or slow it down accordingly ... it can go up to 170 revolutions per minute”
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“On our other rotor sails we roughly save around 1 to 1.2 tonnes per day per rotor sail ... you can save up to 1,500 tonnes per vessel per year, which is around 4,500 tonnes of CO2”
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