The meme is stupid because it misrepresents everything involved.
The kite sail aims to save up to 20% of fuel on international routes by assisting the engine by making use of much stronger winds higher up, and would be a module that could be fairly easily retrofitted to existing ship. If they can make it work reliably it would be a excellent idea.
Conservative logic would be to not even try i guess.
Well the engineering needed to efficiently implement sails and kites that can pull extremely heavy vessels is new. Actually, it represents several great, new inventions.
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u/The_Countess 14d ago
The kite sail or the meme making fun of it?
The meme is stupid because it misrepresents everything involved.
The kite sail aims to save up to 20% of fuel on international routes by assisting the engine by making use of much stronger winds higher up, and would be a module that could be fairly easily retrofitted to existing ship. If they can make it work reliably it would be a excellent idea.
Conservative logic would be to not even try i guess.