Terry Spragg wrote:

Shure thing, dude. You do the engineering study calculation of
losses and gains, etc, where we show that programming the
flippers to recycle roll energy, saving fuel for propulsion is
financially beneficial, and write a letter to convince the
owners to pay me to rewrite the software controlling the fins,
and I will give you half of the proceeds. Is that shareware
enough for you? Saving even one percent of the fuel used on the
QEII is a lot of money.

What are you talking about?

"The power used in the anti roll stabilisers control
the scavanging of energy from the forward motion of
the ship to stabilise the hull."

What the F are you talking about?

Of course, if they come back and say that that concept was their
intellectual property from 20 years ago, and sue you for exposing
trade secrets, you are on your own.

What? The trade secret to some kind of perpetual motion machine?

Think about it for a second ... "scavenging" energy from the
forward motion is called slowing the ship down to get some
of the power back that you put into it to speed it up to
begin with. Why don't you just give me the money instead.

Rick