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Really interesting concept, will follow your success on LI, very excited to see this grow. I think innovative solutions like these for pre-existing industries
by girthbrooks 4y ago
Really interesting concept, will follow your success on LI, very excited to see this grow.
I think innovative solutions like these for pre-existing industries are fantastic. Really stoked someone is focused on this topic, even though 5 minutes ago I was uninformed.
- nickff 4y agoThere have been, and continue to be many companies focused on harnessing wind power for reducing cargo ship emissions. OutSail's (proposed) innovation is putting the sail into a standard inter-modal container form-factor.
- girthbrooks 3y agoHad no clue, excited to explore OutSail’s approach! Thanks for mentioning them
- swyx 4y agobut like what other form factors exist for container ships? nobody thought to put the sails into containers on a container ship before these guys?
- nickff 4y agoI'm not sure what other options have been considered (by would-be market entrants), but OutSail appears to be the first company that is attempting to package a sail into a 'box'. Some other companies have made devices like kites which were relatively vessel-type agnostic.
- bksdacosta 4y agoI think one of our main innovations is how to make a very tall and rigid sail without a rigid mast. But you're right, once we figured out how we can roll up a 60m sail into a small package it was obvious to put it in a cargo container.