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Old 06-13-2021, 12:02 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Freebeard is right, it is possible. https://www.wired.com/2010/06/downwi...than-the-wind/ [/IMG]
I was planning on starting a "why don't cars have sails on them?" thread later this week, but the veritasium video delayed me.

I have been thinking about the downwind faster than the wind thing for years and still don't fully understand it, but I agree that the cylindrical earth thing makes the most sense.

I don't believe it is fake at all, but very limited in application, without gearing and a variable pitch/speed propeller it seems to need a narrow band of winds to be possible.
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