The small major revolution of the chosen Spanish ‘Visionary of the Year’

His photos do not monopolize covers or give names to streets. But only for the moment. Since 1999, The MIT of Massachusetts due to its technological publication Belont 35 young people For their innovative projects that try to “solve the problems that influence society”. 35 young people chose more than a thousand candidates and those two requirements must have: Be innovative and be less than 35 years old. And on this list this year, among other things, a common name appears in Spain: David.

David Ferrer-Desclaux is a 32-year-old boy who is defined in his LinkedIn profile as “a passionate about the daily solution of problems that challenges my intuition, logic and analytical mentality.”

His last challenge and for which it is recognized by MIT is the reduction of CO2 emissions and marine sulfur sulfur oxide. These ships transport between 80% and 90% of the world tax.

A transport that produces 3% CO2 all over the world“It produces the same as Germany that is the sixth country in the world that generates the most,” Ferrer explains. This is the starting point of the idea in which this entrepreneur started in Barcelona almost four years ago.

The Hort of Origin is near the Mediterranean Sea, especially in the classrooms of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia. There, David, José Miguel Bermúdez and Cristina Aleixendri met the three of the career of aviation technology. A question has been asked: «Why not put wings on shipsBecause they push a plane up, why not push a ship forward? “The answer” remained in the air, “was not the most suitable time.

“It is a relatively conservative sector,” says David Ferrer, but “they like to install new things, but if they work.” And at least they worked in Valencia. In 2010, Formula 1 of the Candle ships the Copa América de Vela in the port of the capital of Turia.

That year, the second edition of the tournament that was played in Valencian Waters, the American Oracle assembled a rigid candle and won his fight to the Swiss bank for more than ten minutes. “That was confirmation.” But it wasn’t time either.

“In 2015 we believe that we were prepared and that it could also be a good time to launch the product, because a change in rules was created,” David told Innova+.

A year before the Gound4Blue trailing gun, the company of which Ferrer is Co -founder is transported 1.6 billion tonnes worldwide. Particles that are emitted by ships cause 60,000 deaths worldwide by cardiopulmonary and lung cancer worldwide. “We need a series of technologies to reduce the emission of pollutants in an economically sustainable way,” says young Spanish.

Simple technology

The cocktail with high emission, the stiff candles of the Copa América, the wings of aircraft and aviation technology studies result in Bound4blue and a solution that reduces the most important costs of ships between 10% and 30%: fuel consumption.

The solution is “a simple and well -known technology,” explains the Co -founder of the startup. A combination of a marine steel tap, a hydraulic system and an autonomous aluminum candle. “It is a simple system, easy to do and that all shipyards know it,” he adds.

The properties are simple: to adapt to the direction of the wind, fold for stability and autonomous problems «so that it works with a button and only in the wind. This may also save on costs, “explains David Ferrer.

To date, the tests have been on land and are already available their first mast. In May 2019, the first candle of Bound4Blue will be raised in Balueiro Segundo, a Spanish fishing fishing in the Pacific. The installation saves 20% of the fuel.

The second project also has a name and owner: Fura Dels Baus. The famous Catalan theater company bought a ship in 2006 to make his shows on the ship. “Next year, 500 years have passed since the world of Magallanes and who want to simulate that return to the world with this candle and turn the world with their shows.”

Bound4blue estimates that with the installation of this autonomous wing system the use of fuel is reduced by 40%, although “it is dependent on the route, wind and the ship.”