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Old 04-02-2010, 11:38 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Faster than The Wind - Using only Wind

Two of my good friends have created this mind bending cart that can go faster than the wind powered only by the wind, seem impossible but it is very real - Blog- Ride Like the Wind (only faster)

The magic happens at 1:15 in the video DDWFTTW #1 on Vimeo

(I posted this in the off topic section, but thought it my be appreciated here.)

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Old 04-02-2010, 08:22 PM   #2 (permalink)
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I can't see anything on the video. Do they have an accompanying theory, and/or instructions on how to duplicate the experiment?
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Old 04-02-2010, 09:47 PM   #3 (permalink)
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If you look at the three different videos on vimeo you can see that they start down wind, then as they accelerate they start creating a head wind and when they stop you can see they were being pushed downwind. Their blog has more info.
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Old 04-02-2010, 11:28 PM   #4 (permalink)
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More activity over at this thread, http://ecomodder.com/forum/showthrea...tml#post168968

maybe I should delete this one here.
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Old 04-08-2010, 03:00 PM   #5 (permalink)
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for a second I thought someone was posting something about the Whike
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Old 05-22-2010, 08:52 AM   #6 (permalink)
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wow, that whike site is annoying with the slow popup images and no info.
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Sailboats do it all the time (just not big keel boats). Vector analysis.

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