I once heard of a giant kite technology like this called “sails” but it was retired in favor of fossil fules
Kites are more efficient. For one they can be much larger, but you can also put them at angles that you can’t operate a sail at.
Kites don’t take up deck space like masts for sails do.
Shit, nobody tell these people about sailboats
Sailboats: Am I a fucking joke to you?
Right? This just sounds like sailing with extra steps.
This has been in sci-fi books for ages and I am all for it. Airships, slow travelling, all of it.
Sailboat 2.0.
Big brains reinventing the tall ship
I’ve seen stories like this before. I want to see a story about something like this actually in widespread use.
I’ve thought about something else. Instead of using huge heavy costly cargo ships, just put each package on a solar powered water drone and make thousands of them. Let them run on solar and control them by setting a GPS goal. Track them by satellite. Collect them when they get there. I can wait a week more.
Idk man. The largest container ships carry ~40k shipping containers. Do you really think we could make 40k-ish solar boats and unload them efficiently? I think a better solution would be to transition the ships away from fossil fuels.
