If its so efficient, 40 years later, why hasn't it taken over the world?
https://web.archive.org/web/20220401032800/https://www.cousteau.org/legacy/technology/turbosail/
If its so efficient, 40 years later, why hasn't it taken over the world?
https://web.archive.org/web/20220401032800/https://www.cousteau.org/legacy/technology/turbosail/
Looks like those cylinders are standing right where there are otherwise shipping containers piled high, deep, and wide.
Eliminate the payload for cylinder sails? Great idea!
Did I go and read the whole article? No. The posted picture speaks for itself or should not have been posted in the first place.
This same thing was proclaimed long ago as the solution to rising fuel prices and I believe there was even a prototype built and much hype about its first voyage about to begin and then nothing. I think I saw an articlebin a magazine so it as probably before internet.
It doesn’t work. I remember seeing a Jacques Cousteau special in the 80’s where they had a sail boat on the same principal called the ‘turbo sail’ It doesn’t work for cargo ships.
I get really sick of you posting every utopian energy scheme you encounter. “may”, “might”, ‘could’
Yawn