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Comment on Main obstacles facing the adoption of kite sails, the modern day answer to the Age of Sail, are not engineering-related, but social.

hfkldjbuq@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

The company should obviously have had understood the problem, business, market well before coming up with a solution; seems like they missed or done well enough this step. That's it.

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zksmk@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
This is one of those situations where the free market doesn't give desirable results, and where a government could step in and give subsidies for this goal, assuming it were serious about decreasing GHG emissions.

There would be no profit for the state, beyond less climate change, but the shipping industry would profit, having to spend less fuel.

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- hfkldjbuq@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
  
  government could step in and give subsidies for this goal, assuming it were serious about decreasing GHG emissions.
  
  that and government should actually step in firmer: laws for regulating companies to much limit ghg emissions. basically
  
  Lobby governments: Without formal regulations requiring caps on emissions, it is unlikely that shipping companies will be incentivized to invest in costly solutions. Skysail could work with organisations like the Transport and Environment organisation to promote a change in transport regulations.
  
  but companies' lobby for maintaining status quo, for max profit is strong...
  
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