{"id":904,"date":"2008-01-30T06:11:31","date_gmt":"2008-01-30T14:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/30\/another-wind-harvest-approach\/"},"modified":"2008-01-30T06:11:31","modified_gmt":"2008-01-30T14:11:31","slug":"another-wind-harvest-approach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/30\/another-wind-harvest-approach\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Wind Harvest Approach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/2006\/12\/05\/return-to-the-age-of-sail\/\">Back in December, 2006<\/a> we first wrote about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysails.info\/\" target=\"_blank\" >SkySails<\/a>, the company that wants shippers to return to the age of sail. Well, since that time they&#8217;ve grown up a bit and now have commercial product. The idea is simple, harness a large ship to a kite\/sail with a large area (~600 m<sup>2<\/sup>) about 300 m above the surface where the winds are stronger and more consistent. The result? Up to 15% savings on fossil fuel consumption by letting the wind help out.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<center>Watch the SkySail in Action<br \/><object width=\"425\" height=\"373\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/dNYJd61zEyY&#038;rel=1&#038;border=1\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/dNYJd61zEyY&#038;rel=1&#038;border=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"373\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in December, 2006 we first wrote about SkySails, the company that wants shippers to return to the age of sail. Well, since that time they&#8217;ve grown up a bit and now have commercial product. The idea is simple, harness a large ship to a kite\/sail with a large area (~600 m2) about 300 m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}