Stefan Mileschin

Time to go Viking automatically

Norway has just launched the world's first fully electric autonomous cargo vessel.

Norway has had zero emission ships before, but they involved rowing by blokes who were powered by rape and pillage. This ship is electric and does not have a crew member, or a single axe on board.

The Yara Birkeland will move up to 120 containers of fertiliser from a plant in the southeastern town of Porsgrunn to the Brevik port a dozen kilometres (about eight miles) away and will eliminate the need for around 40,000 truck journeys a year that are now fuelled by polluting diesel.

The 80-meter, 3,200-deadweight tonne ship will soon begin two years of working trials during which it will be fine-tuned to learn to manoeuvre on its own.

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