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Sailing technology has gone beyond "we can go downwind, yay!" for quite a while now...
by usrusr 2y ago
Sailing technology has gone beyond "we can go downwind, yay!" for quite a while now...
- Earw0rm 2y agoCertainly of course, but not while delivering maximum continuous energy from a kite to a turbine.
- usrusr 2y agoBoats go considerably faster, as in overcoming more water drag, going crosswind than going downwind. I suppose that adding extra drag with a hydrogenerator will change the maths of that relationship, but certainly not so much that it would be prohibitively wasteful to not specialize a hydrogenerator carrier to downwind-only. (if the downwind-only setup can be competitive at all, not sure I'd take that as a given)