Container ships use heavy fuel oil called bunker fuel. They’re more efficient than trains, trucks and planes. But bunker fuel ...

A colony of creatures closely related to the Portuguese man o' war has washed up on beaches around Guernsey. Commonly ...

The differences are the obvious ones. Sailboats travel on water and are pushed along by the wind. Solar sails travel in a vacuum pushed by the solar winds from the Sun – a plasma flow of mainly ...

Cargill has debuted the first ever wind-powered ocean liner with WindWings®, which could have large implications for the ...

A small wind turbine can be surprisingly affordable — as long as you don't have to mount it on a tall tower to catch the wind ...

Modern sails look more like airplane wings, smokestacks or balloons, and they use artificial intelligence to catch the wind with little help from mariners who long ago forgot the art of hoisting a ...

Extreme wind can damage solar panels. Standard rack-mounted panel arrays catch the wind, which makes them susceptible to high winds from tornadoes and hurricanes. Short-term degradation due to ...

Just slowing the engines down saves energy. And even the biggest ships on the planet can use sails to catch the wind. “They operate like airplane wings. They’re 37 meters high — absolutely ...