Model testing of the Yara Birkeland is under way and a building contract will be signed later this year: http://www.smp.no/naeringsliv/2017/09/28/Her-testar-dei-verdas-første-sjølvstyrte-skip-designa-på-Sunnmøre-15372678.ece
Money to help the project along is forthcoming from the Norwegian Government: http://splash247.com/norwegian-government-chips-17m-help-build-worlds-first-autonomous-boxship/
Its built like that because you are there, if the design criteria was to last x miles/days without humans it would be designed different.
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Let’s hope we never see a “Mister Gary’s Flying Machine Company” enter the airliner building market.
Not future but present development. Battery banks to be installed on existing PSVs to save fuel and reduce emission: http://www.motorship.com/news101/engines-and-propulsion/battery-storage-systems-promise-offshore-energy-savings
Large battery banks you say???
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Maybe yours are bigger???
Just like a cop. Where’s the battery expert when you need him most.
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ABB did 2 new ones a few years ago with 3.5mw battery
holy crap, must have worked in more are doing it.
Certainly a bonus for DP vessels.
I know some new DP semi’s are on the drawing board with them
Statoil demands it for their latest round of long term charters: http://maritime-executive.com/article/statoil-seven-supply-vessels-will-get-hybrid-power
battery and LPG will certainly clean things up
( as soon as they explain what they do with an old battery)
There appears to be several companies that handle recycling of batteries in Norway and beyond: https://www.environmental-expert.com/services/keyword-battery-recycling-lithium-ion-49584/available-in-norway?redirectedToServing=1
Lots of valuable material to be salvaged and reused apparently.
Scholarly report on the advantages of hybrid electric power on offshore vessels and ferries etc.:
its a bit theoretical when I’m sure the technology that will be used may not be invented yet?
We need to see what happens in 10 years when they go up the beach in Alang
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Sorry, don’t let’s disturb you in your blissful pursuit of happiness.
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A fjord near me and the centre of development of Maritime Technology will become an approved test area for autonomous ships : https://sysla.no/maritim/storfjorden-pa-sunnmore-blir-testfjord-autonome-skip/
That should increase the possibility that I will see such ships in my lifetime I.A.
PS> This fjord, or at least part of it, is regularly used to test and calibrate seismic equipment and for sea trials of newbuilt vessels from the many shipyards around.
It is also a much visited fjord by Cruise ships during the summer season:
A future for old VLCCs??: https://sysla.no/maritim/vil-forlenge-tankskips-levetid-ved-a-lage-vann/
First contracts comes from Bangladesh: https://sysla.no/maritim/na-tegner-det-endelig-mot-business-rense-tankskip/
Maybe they can stop breaking them and start doing something useful and non-pollution for a change?
Hydrogen as power for ships is where I see the future. Viking Cruises appears to have the same vision: http://gcaptain.com/viking-planning-worlds-first-liquid-hydrogen-powered-cruise-ship/?goal=0_f50174ef03-5f8791f1c6-169863069&mc_cid=5f8791f1c6&mc_eid=4674ba0fbe
Rolls-Royce and Google to work together to develop the AI bit required for the onboard systems: https://sysla.no/maritim/na-skal-rolls-royce-jobbe-med-google/
Is this going a little bit too fast for most seafarer’s liking??
Not for you. I’d say your at least half mast at this point