container ship Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Fri, 14 Feb 2014 15:40:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 “Active Air Control” Improves Emissions and Fuel Economy in Larger Engines https://www.greenoptimistic.com/active-air-control-improves-emissions-fuel-economy-larger-engines-20140214/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/active-air-control-improves-emissions-fuel-economy-larger-engines-20140214/#respond Fri, 14 Feb 2014 15:40:29 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=45926 An internal combustion engine (ICE) is essentially an air pump. The more efficient the air flows through the air pump (ICE), the better power and fuel economy the ICE can deliver. The ICE is a complex high-speed ballet of mechanical parts, designed to extract as much usable power from a spritz of gasoline in each […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/active-air-control-improves-emissions-fuel-economy-larger-engines-20140214/feed/ 0 45926 Back to Basics – Dykstra Ecoliner, The Wind-Powered Container Ship https://www.greenoptimistic.com/dykstra-ecoliner-wind-powered-ship-20121126/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/dykstra-ecoliner-wind-powered-ship-20121126/#respond Mon, 26 Nov 2012 20:50:54 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=28804 Just a couple hundred years ago, cargo was moved across oceans, along coastlines, and up and down rivers using one simple tool, a sail to catch the wind, which has been around for thousands of years. With the introduction of steam and eventually diesel-powered engines, a container ship was no longer at the mercy of […]

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