Forget your hybrid automobile: Nowadays, people can travel using the wind alone. It's what pushes land private yachts that move over snow and ice or roll on wheels over land-- powered by rotors harvesting power from the wind upwind.
It's a method that incorporates romance, fond memories and sustainability. But can it work?
3. The Love of the Land
For centuries guy has actually used wind power on the sea, however two Germans have used the winds of the land to complete an impressive road trip across Australia. Taking a trip on a car called the Wind Traveler they harvested energy from the activity of the earth's surface area and transformed it into electrical energy, allowing them to pass through 5,000 kilometres (3,107 miles) with a minimum of fuel. This is an excellent example of exactly how an organization model can prosper when based upon predicable inputs.
4. The Romance of the Sky
Commonly, wind power has been utilized to take a trip on the sea, yet two Germans just recently finished a 5,000 km (3,107 mile) road-trip in their car that transforms solar and wind power into electrical power for the wheels. Their appropriately called Wind Explorer uses both sails and blades to collect the power of the wind. It's not uncommon for the rotor-powered cars to accomplish ground rates that exceed that of the wind, even when traveling straight downwind.
Among the most interesting secrets 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 the sails and I are wishing that someday the CAB will reopen the query with 21st century modern technology, to discover what actually happened. Maybe the tape will expose an explosion, or a battle in the cabin with a psycho, or the blaring accelerating scream of a runaway propeller.
