Drift Energy wants to harness offshore wind to produce and transport fuel more efficiently than ever before. Wind power will surpass hydropower and become the second-largest renewable source after solar by the end of the decade. With a crew of six, the ships will have to discharge the hydrogen in port once a week on average, or as often as every ten days if the best weather occurs farther out from shore. An algorithm at the core of Drift’s technology searches for what Mr Medland referred to as \”Goldilock conditions\”-wind that is powerful enough to produce energy without posing a threat. The Goldilocks algorithm \”sails 6 million virtual miles in 0.02 seconds\” to select the next mile of the optimal path, which was not available 10, 15 years ago, Mr Medlands said. He claimed that the racing yacht was \”a first-ever class of mobile renewable energy\” that does not need \”grid infrastructure,\” \”cables under the ocean,\” \”foundations or anchors,\” which are \”free range\” wind turbines.
