Forget your hybrid automobile: These days, people can travel using the wind alone. It's what moves land yachts that glide over snow and ice or roll on wheels over land-- powered by rotors harvesting power from the wind upwind.
It's an approach that integrates love, nostalgia and sustainability. Yet can it work?
3. The Love of the Land
For centuries man 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. Traveling on a lorry called the Wind Explorer they collected energy from the motion of the planet's surface and converted it right into electricity, enabling them to go across 5,000 km (3,107 miles) with a minimum of gas. This is a great example of just how a business design can grow when based upon predicable inputs.
4. The Love of the Skies
Traditionally, wind power has been made use of to travel on the sea, however 2 Germans lately completed a 5,000 km (3,107 mile) road-trip in their lorry that converts solar and wind st thomas energy right into power for the wheels. Their aptly named Wind Explorer makes use of 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 amazed Civil Aeronautics Board private investigators, whose investigation was closed with "no possible reason." Ken and I are wishing that sooner or later the CAB will reopen the query with 21st century innovation, to discover what actually took place. Possibly the tape will reveal an explosion, or a struggle in the cockpit with a psycho, or the raucous increasing scream of a runaway propeller.
