It was just such a better experience quietly drifting along this beautiful and scenic place. It made me realize how loud normal boats are.
We took the ferry from Iceland to Denmark via the Faroe Islands. The entire multi day trip our cabin stank of diesel fumes because of how the wind was blowing the exhaust.
Crew said it was normal, my headache didn’t agree.
Absolutely incredible
I’m guessing they’re in turn a large battery that draws a standard current so the ferry can be fast charged.
Maybe not as amazing, but a key piece of infrastructure.
> The two cities are 60 kilometers apart, a distance Hull 096 is expected to travel in 90 minutes. Direct current charging stations will be installed at each port, and will draw energy from the two countries’ grids. A full charge is expected to take just 40 minutes.
More details on how this works would also be cool. But would it be that different from one or more scaled up EV fast chargers?
We can assume that the boat won't need a full charge after each 90 minute journey. In other words, "top up" recharging while docked for loading and unloading for the normal period of time will be fine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incat#Deliveries
The current ships are used as a bus station. Various coaches use the ship, and people can transfer whilst on the ship.
“The FERRY that's also a FLOATING bus terminal. Denmark's STRANGE bus service Copenhagen to Aarhus”
https://youtube.com/watch?v=rTdXe5jDojk
By strange one assumes he means innovative.
EDIT: Ah. It looks like it actually won't be very high speed in normal operation; 25 knots.
SideburnsOfDoom•3mo ago
It's long distance and can be rough seas. In fact it's so far that I can't be sure if they would go East or West, neither seems compellingly better offhand.
perilunar•3mo ago
SideburnsOfDoom•3mo ago
e.g. If your choice is towing a 225 car ferry around either Cape Agulhas or Tierra del Fuego, then more than trivial planning will be involved. And likely, waiting for the right time of year. i.e. Not winter in June -> September.