Giant kites? You mean sails? Not exactly cutting edge technology.
Generally these ideas do actually mean kites rather than sails. The article in the image is about a design for a kite on a cable a few hundred metres long. This would only work when going downwind, but it does mean it’s a lot easier to retrofit to existing ships
This is the article that was linked. It really is kites and not sails.
Wasn’t there something about global currents getting fucked by the climate change, creating a lot of dead zones in the process and rendering this sort of development virtually pointless?
I’ve seen articles about ship kites for multiple decades now. Why is this tech still treated as a novelty?
Is it because they can’t get it to work?
no idea, i guess either that or it never pans out to be cost effective.
I thought it was the low speed. And variability of wind
