{"id":82238,"date":"2018-08-31T22:22:38","date_gmt":"2018-09-01T05:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/this-is-a-sailboat-and-those-are-sails"},"modified":"2018-08-31T22:22:38","modified_gmt":"2018-09-01T05:22:38","slug":"this-is-a-sailboat-and-those-are-sails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/this-is-a-sailboat-and-those-are-sails","title":{"rendered":"This Is A Sailboat And Those Are Sails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-is-a-sailboat-and-those-are-sails.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We are undeniably using up what little remains of Earth\u2019s petroleum, and because of that, it\u2019s getting expensive. To reduce fuel costs, shipping companies are turning back to sailboats. Yes, seriously. Sailboats. But they don\u2019t look like any sails you\u2019ve seen before.<\/p>\n<p>You know sails \u2013 most of the time big rectangle things, sometimes big triangle things, almost always (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wingsail\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">but not always-always<\/a>) made out of cloth. But while those things in the top gif don\u2019t look like your normal sails, that\u2019s what they are. They just don\u2019t work like any sail you\u2019ve ever seen before.<\/p>\n<p>Most sails you\u2019ve seen rely on the wind directly acting against them to provide propulsion. But these new types of sails, known as \u201crotor sails\u201d rely on a physics principle called the Magnus Effect. Here, I\u2019ll let the people with delightfully thick Finnish accents from Norsepower, the company that makes them, explain it:<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/jalopnik.com\/this-is-a-sailboat-and-those-are-sails-1828740311\">https:\/\/jalopnik.com\/this-is-a-sailboat-and-those-are-sails-1828740311<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are undeniably using up what little remains of Earth\u2019s petroleum, and because of that, it\u2019s getting expensive. To reduce fuel costs, shipping companies are turning back to sailboats. Yes, seriously. Sailboats. But they don\u2019t look like any sails you\u2019ve seen before. You know sails \u2013 most of the time big rectangle things, sometimes big [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82238","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=82238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}