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The wrecked sailing ship 'Chance' with a windmill, New Zealand, 1902 (lemmy.world)

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[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I don't think so - Making the wind with the windmill would push the boat one way, then the wind hitting the sail would push it the opposite way, so it wouldn't move. In fact it wouldn't be 100% efficient so the windmill would move the boat slightly more.

[–] MinFapper@startrek.website 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Wooooooosh!

[–] ebolapie@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Is that the noise the windmill makes