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But these aren’t your grandmother’s clipper ships. Plus, C.C. Sullivan asks whether architects have a duty, like doctors, to do no harm. What do you think?
Fuel costs for conventional ocean freighters are increasing. Rolls Royce and B9 Shipping are developing a cargo vessel featuring a 180-foot sail augmented by biomethane engines.
UCLA researchers have doubled the efficiency of a see-through solar film that someday could be placed on windows and smartphones to harvest energy from the sun.
