{"id":185103,"date":"2024-03-14T18:24:26","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T23:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/cargills-wind-powered-cargo-ship-completes-fuel-saving-test-voyage"},"modified":"2024-03-14T18:24:26","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T23:24:26","slug":"cargills-wind-powered-cargo-ship-completes-fuel-saving-test-voyage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/cargills-wind-powered-cargo-ship-completes-fuel-saving-test-voyage","title":{"rendered":"Cargill\u2019s wind-powered cargo ship completes fuel-saving test voyage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cargills-wind-powered-cargo-ship-completes-fuel-saving-test-voyage2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Results are in from the six-month test of the Pyxis Ocean, a cargo ship outfitted with fiberglass sails as part of a fuel-saving test by Cargill Inc.<\/p>\n<p>The Wayzata, Minn.-based agriculture giant said the partially wind-powered cargo ship saved an average of 3 tons of fuel per day and 11.2 tons of carbon dioxide emissions. Cargill calculates that this savings would be the equivalent of taking 480 cars off the road.<\/p>\n<p>In optimal conditions, the ship saved nearly 11 tons per day. That\u2019s roughly a 37% decrease in carbon emissions. According to <a data-ct=\"Article: In-Content Link\" href=\"https:\/\/shipandbunker.com\/prices\" target=\"_blank\" data-link=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ship and Bunker\u2019s global 20 port average<\/a>, that\u2019s a savings of about $656 per metric ton in fuel. Most cargo ships are fueled by bunker fuel, also known as heavy fuel oil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Results are in from the six-month test of the Pyxis Ocean, a cargo ship outfitted with fiberglass sails as part of a fuel-saving test by Cargill Inc. The Wayzata, Minn.-based agriculture giant said the partially wind-powered cargo ship saved an average of 3 tons of fuel per day and 11.2 tons of carbon dioxide emissions. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}