Forget your hybrid automobile: These days, people can travel using the wind alone. It's what moves land private yachts that glide over snow and ice or roll on wheels over land-- powered by rotors harvesting power from the wind upwind.
It's a strategy that incorporates romance, nostalgia and sustainability. Yet can it work?
3. The Love of the Land
For centuries male has made use of wind power on the sea, but 2 Germans have taken advantage of the winds of the land to finish a legendary trip across Australia. Taking a trip on a vehicle called the Wind Explorer they collected energy from the motion of the planet's surface and transformed it into electrical power, permitting them to traverse 5,000 kilometres (3,107 miles) with a minimum of gas. This is a terrific instance of how a service version can flourish when based upon predicable inputs.
4. The Love of the Sky
Generally, wind power has actually been used to travel on the sea, yet two Germans just recently finished a snorkeling in tortola 5,000 kilometres (3,107 mile) road-trip in their vehicle that converts solar and wind power right into electrical power for the wheels. Their appropriately called Wind Explorer utilizes both sails and blades to collect the power of the wind. It's not unusual for the rotor-powered cars to accomplish ground rates that exceed that of the wind, even when traveling straight downwind.
Among the most interesting enigmas in aeronautics involves an airborne Agatha Christie thriller, an Agatha Christie at 10,000 feet-- Romance of the Skies, a Frying pan Am trip that disappeared in 1959, with 42 souls on board. The airplane's loss dumbfounded Civil Aeronautics Board investigators, whose investigation was closed with "no likely reason." Ken and I are wishing that someday the CAB will resume the query with 21st century modern technology, to discover what really happened. Maybe the tape will expose a surge, or a battle in the cabin with a psycho, or the blaring accelerating scream of a runaway propeller.
