Green Options » dk group http://greenoptions.com/tag/dk-group Posts tagged 'dk group' Fri, 02 Jan 2009 22:27:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Company Developing Energy-Efficient Ship that Floats on Air http://cleantechnica.com/2009/01/02/company-developing-energy-efficient-ship-that-floats-on-air/ http://cleantechnica.com/2009/01/02/company-developing-energy-efficient-ship-that-floats-on-air/#comments Fri, 02 Jan 2009 22:27:10 +0000 Ariel Schwartz http://cleantechnica.com/2009/01/02/company-developing-energy-efficient-ship-that-floats-on-air/ ship

Rotterdam-based marine-engineering firm DK Group has been quietly testing one of the strangest-sounding technologies to come along in the recent past— a ship that floats on air. This past September, the company let loose a 272 foot long cargo vessel in Norway’s Oslo Fjord. 25 feet below the ship’s surface, recesses built into the underside of the vessel’s hull created drag-reducing pockets.

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