{"id":28,"date":"2006-12-05T07:28:27","date_gmt":"2006-12-05T15:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/?p=28"},"modified":"2007-01-10T15:17:22","modified_gmt":"2007-01-10T23:17:22","slug":"return-to-the-age-of-sail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/?p=28","title":{"rendered":"Return to the age of sail?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.montaraventures.com\/pix\/sailingship.jpg\"><br \/>\n<br \/>\nYou know fuel prices are going up and carbon emissions standards are tightening when <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20061204\/sc_nm\/germany_sails_dc_2\">we return to a prior age to harvest technology<\/a>. Now admittedly, the picture above isn&#8217;t your garden variety <a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/browse\/xebec\">xebec<\/a> (great scrabble word btw,) but it is interesting that the hybrid technology of the 19th century is making a comeback.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThis kind of reminds me of kite surfing technology wed to a cargo ship. Pretty different than the prior implementations that combined coal burning steam engines with traditional sailing ship technology. I&#8217;m looking forward to seeing one of these things pass by my window.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<small><br \/>\nTechnorati Tags: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/sailing\" rel=\"tag\">Sailing<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/ship\" rel=\"tag\">Ship<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/hybrid\" rel=\"tag\">Hybrid<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know fuel prices are going up and carbon emissions standards are tightening when we return to a prior age to harvest technology. Now admittedly, the picture above isn&#8217;t your garden variety xebec (great scrabble word btw,) but it is interesting that the hybrid technology of the 19th century is making a comeback. This kind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[9,7,4],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2gI6x-s","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}