The New Age Of Sail
 

Interesting. The kite might work, if the lazy ships crew bother to
sail it. The boat with masts/sails looks like they would be too high.
Some ships barely get under some bridges now.

SV

"jlrogers±³©" wrote in message
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http://www.newscientist.com/channel/...mg18524881.600
'The coming of steam sent the world's great sailing fleets into
decline. The
internal combustion engine finally finished them off. So it would be
a
strange twist of fate if the age of sail was resurrected by what
amounts to
a child's toy.

'For several weeks last summer, a team of German engineers sailed
back and

Scotty,

Also, The economics of speed is being left out of the equation. A ship
traveling at 30 knots can make 5 trips to a ship traveling at 6 knots. 5
times the profits and cargo carried.

The change will probably be to Aircraft.




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1 pt Good Article.