Ok the fact that this tech is being used to shovel piles of new cars around is not that solarpunk, but the technology itself certainly is.
Ok the fact that this tech is being used to shovel piles of new cars around is not that solarpunk, but the technology itself certainly is.
You don’t have to imagine it, three already exist and no these aren’t yachts, they are cargo vessels for tea and wine!
https://www.bairdmaritime.com/shipping/dry-cargo/frances-newtowt-takes-delivery-of-third-sailing-cargo-ship-in-series
https://www.bairdmaritime.com/shipping/dry-cargo/vessel-review-anemos-artemis-french-transport-company-introduces-sailing-cargo-ships-on-transatlantic-routes
A rare glimpse of an exciting future-past synchronicity, almost every other tall ship on this list is not actually used for shipping.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_large_sailing_vessels