Wow. Today was another great day of learning about Emden's energy industries. We began at a the Stadtwerk biomass facility. Then our Rotarian guide (and captain of our sailing trip yesterday), Wilhelm-Alfred Brüning, showed us his steel manufacturing and design firm. After a delightful mittagessen at Greg and Fred's host home of Dr. Onno Feenders and his wife Krista, we went to tour the E-Ship. The ship is designed around the concept of "flatner rotors." I may be misspelling that, but the general idea is that these rotors spin around creating a negative pressure on one side of the column and positive pressure on the other side, which then is used to provide an energy savings of 30% for the cargo ship. This ship will be used to transport Enercon's windmill components around the world. It was a state of the art ship, but photos are "verboten." Greg or the others may have more to add. I have a feeling we've seen some technology that many people would give their life and limb to see. I am truly amazed at the opportunities we have through this program.
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