Christian Nally's News

For many hundreds of years, goods were transported around the globe on sailing ships.

But with both environmental and financial pressure on our consumption of fossil fuels, finding niche applications for wind powered transport is turning us towards a world where "everything old is new again".

Today I collect a couple of stories that have crossed my screen in the last little while.

Wine improves with age, so why bother wasting energy on hydrodynamic friction? With good planning, we can wait for its arrival. That's the logic behind this modern day sailing as shipping endeavor.

But let's assume that you need to use your current fleet of oil sucking speedsters? Is there any hope? Why certainly, good reader, just grab an admittedly high tech freighter kite. One of the innovations here is to capture winds much higher above the water than those grabbed by mast held sails. Wind speed is higher up there. Engineers expect to save as much as 35% of fuel costs this way.

Go Sailing Go! Could it be that we could support Galiano's new coffee roasting outfit with occasional trips from from our distributors down south? Sign me up!

Here's a quick test of the Sprout Widget System.

To celebrate the opening of this blog to public comments, I have but one simple question for the masses of folks reading this blog. ;-) Which OpenID service provider will you choose for your main on-line identities? Why?

Is it that the OpenID provider you use will say as much about you as the shirts you choose to wear?

Please let me know your reasoning in the comments section below.