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The world’s largest wind-powered cargo ship just made its first delivery across the Atlantic (www.fastcompany.com)
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[–] Tramort@programming.dev 0 points 2 weeks ago (12 children)

This is not the first wind powered cargo ship by a long shot. All cargo ships used to be wind powered.

[–] 1luv8008135@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

The headline says largest, not first?

[–] INeedMana@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

For some reason I also read "first" the first time I looked at the title

[–] zooi@feddit.nl 0 points 2 weeks ago

it was the first time in nearly a century that a large cargo ship crossed the Atlantic powered almost entirely by the wind.

Not that far off, really

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