25 January 2008

Yesterday's technology may be today's

Here's an interesting concept. Using a Sky Sail to augment propulsion for container ships.

2 comments:

joated said...

It's a sea going hybrid! Makes a lot of sense on those transoceanic voyages.

Anonymous said...

I'd be interested in seeing how the deploy the thing. I didn't see any pics of it in that regard. Also, that would have to be one strong kite string.