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?
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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
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