Harry Valentine
Author and Researcher
Mr. Valentine has a degree in mechanical engineering from Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada specializing in thermodynamics (energy conversion) and transportation technology. He has worked as a technical journalist for the past 10-years and has more than 2 decades of research in the transportation industry.
Carbon-Free Port Service Locomotive Propulsion
Railway lines extend into many ports internationally while main railway marshalling yards may be located at a distance from quaysi...
Powerful Winds Prompt Cape Town to Consider Moving its Seaport
During the final week of March 2021, elected municipal officials from the City of Cape Town, South Africa asked the nation’s...
Moving Beyond the Suez Canal Blockage
A severe windstorm that obscured visibility from the ship’s bridge is alleged to have pushed the container ship the Ever Giv...
Construction Company Starts New Container Line for Seaway Ports
A family-owned construction company based in Odessa, Ontario plans to introduce twice-weekly ship transportation service betw...
Revisiting Thermal Energy Storage for Vessel Propulsion
Developments in the solar thermal power industry and more recently in the nuclear power industry involve thermal storage material...
Mechanical Power Transfer for Wind Turbine Powered Boats
Several advances have occurred in mechanical power transfer technology with potential application in wind turbine powered boats, o...
Towing Floating Wind Turbines to Provide Ship Propulsion
Advancing technical innovation in wind power conversion has produced turbines capable of delivering 14,000 kW of power output. Ong...
X-Bow Design Could Help Solve Air Draft Challenges for Boxships
The X-Bow allows for possible lower level forward placement of the ship’s control-bridge above and immediately behind the bo...
Revisiting Vanadium Flow Batteries for Ship Propulsion
In July 2019, Maritime Executive carried a commentary suggesting possible application of vanadium flow batteries for ves...
A Multi-Slat Hydrofoil for Low-Speed Sailing in Heavy Seas
Aeronautical hobbyists have built, tested and flown scale model airplanes that use multi-slat aeronautical main wings that provide...