As component of project highlighting the demand for instant activity to minimize the influences of fossil fuel-driven environment modification, Finnish modern technology team Wärtsilä has actually revealed a debatable concept that imagines lifeboats for structures ashore in flood-prone locations.

Wärtsilä calls the theoretical lifeboat an item that need to never ever exist. Nevertheless, without activity to minimize mankind’s effect on environment modification, the modern technology provides a peek of what can be in shop for future generations. While not an actual item (yet), the lifeboats, theoretically, can be utilized in situations of serious flooding and also climbing water level brought on by environment modification.

“We want to underline the urgency of the situation and to amplify the critical need to move climate change discourse ?to action,” Wärtsilä states on its site. “This is why the experts at Wärtsilä developed a product that should never see the light of day.”

The theoretical lifeboat for structures is conceived and also created by Wärtsilä Ship Design and also includes Wärtsilä’s wise modern technologies from both Marine and also Energy, such as vibrant placing, autodocking, cordless billing and also 100% renewable resource. The business revealed concept today at Slush Helsinki, a meeting for technology start-ups.

“This hypothetical lifeboat is a way for Wärtsilä to amplify the critical need to move climate change discourse to action. In fact, the concept is not as unimaginable as we first think. The boats would have been useful in the recent floods in Italy and Indonesia. We must act now, together. Or the unthinkable will happen and this lifeboat will have to be built for real,” states Marco Ryan, Chief Digital Officer at Wärtsilä.

As component of the international project, Wärtsilä is likewise searching for companions to assist it in its passion of attaining a 100% sustainable future and also lasting delivery.

“This is an open invitation to start-ups, partners, customers and future colleagues. We are eager to collaborate with tech-heads around the globe and across industries to find smart solutions for energy and marine. We are after perfect matches in Slush,” states Steffen Knodt, Director Digital Ventures.

“We simply cannot afford to wait for the marine and energy industries to improve at the current pace. Climate change and scarcity of natural resources call for innovative and creative solutions that Wärtsilä is already developing, but we cannot deliver our purpose ‘enabling sustainable societies with smart technology’ without equally forward-looking partners”, stresses Wärtsilä’s President and also CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER Jaakko Eskola.

Marko Vainikka, Director of Corporate Relations and also Sustainability at Wärtsilä, remark: “Technologies play an important role in the mitigation of the impacts of climate change. Sustainability has been at the forefront in everything we do for decades. Our sustainability targets call us to reduce our own energy consumption by 7% by 2025 and reduce greenhouse gas emission from gas engines by 15% by 2020. These goals among others need to be achieved in order to avoid a future where lifeboats for buildings are needed.”