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- quakerorts, on 01/21/2008, -2/+163Boy, what a bunch of grouchy naysayers! Supplementing a diesel powered ship with a little wind boost to save energy and pollute less is the kind of thing we should be doing more of.
- cambob76, on 01/21/2008, -5/+117We cant do this people. One day we will run out of wind! What would we do then?
- speedyrev, on 01/21/2008, -1/+87Wow! Ships powered by wind!!!
- vadimus, on 01/21/2008, -2/+59How long before Wordpress blogs are powered by kites?
- cowsgonemadd3, on 01/21/2008, -3/+55How long before people stop posting stupid comments/questions....??
- getrealnow, on 01/21/2008, -0/+42Can I have mine to look like a dragon?
- yetAnotherCroc, on 01/21/2008, -0/+33Sometimes they had it right to start with but then we went wrong. Going back to simpler and less damaging ways of doing things is not regression. Its real progress. Progress towards a goal instead of progress for progress own sake.
- QGYH2, on 01/21/2008, -0/+28more here:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?view=D ... - Scrappy1850, on 01/21/2008, -4/+31never
- FatLoser, on 01/21/2008, -1/+28Damn shame, isn't it? His comment could have been insightful or interesting, but because of the minor grammatical flaw we'll never know what it says.
- MindTrigger, on 01/21/2008, -1/+27Digg comments are looking more and more like YouTube comments every day. It's really starting to make the site a yawner.
- m4ngo, on 01/21/2008, -2/+27Mary Poppins > Kite
- randatola, on 01/21/2008, -5/+30> My question: how do you get it up? I always had trouble doing that with a kite.
Try with a woman.
Come on, it had to be said. - spidamonkey, on 01/21/2008, -0/+19Are they going to use it at night? there's something about flying a kite at night that's so unwholesome
- codyman, on 01/21/2008, -2/+20having been raised around sailboats / have been sailing basically my entire life, I can definitely attest to the power of the wind and how, especially when coupled with the latest technologies to harness it, it can easily pull around a lot of weight. I have a 27' sailboat right now and I laugh at all the big power boats who sit sucking fuel up at the gas dock (which is always current land price of gas + $1.00 per gallon) as I sail off into the distance
- sublimemm, on 01/21/2008, -2/+19"how do you get it up?"
thats what she said - JaqMs, on 01/21/2008, -0/+16This picture was not "graphic" at all. Where is the bloody mess?
- MattB123, on 01/21/2008, -1/+17Yes, it is.
- Synchro, on 01/21/2008, -0/+16Are you a "Peak Wind" theorist?
- michaelb1, on 01/21/2008, -0/+16A plane powered by a kite becomes a plane slowed down by a parachute.
- treagh, on 01/21/2008, -0/+15I hear that politicians are a great source of wind... seems to be no shortage of them in the near future.
- tidu, on 01/21/2008, -0/+15What do you want his boat to be made out of? Wooden sticks and fairy dust?
- Dipster, on 01/21/2008, -0/+14Someone cue Charlie Brown's Kite Eating Tree...
- dixonHill, on 01/21/2008, -0/+14Clearly that is something up with which you cannot put.
- xxTazxx, on 01/21/2008, -1/+15Yes, because there is nothing such as improving existing technologies.
Idiot. - dnields, on 01/21/2008, -0/+12I thought they already were... isn't that why the crash so often?
- itsbob, on 01/21/2008, -0/+12That makes so much sense it will never happen.
- kokoshka, on 01/21/2008, -0/+11Digging you down wasn't enough
Must reply to tell you how stupid you sound... - carbonetc, on 01/21/2008, -2/+13They should stick some solar cells in that baby.
- mega-volt, on 01/21/2008, -0/+11come on. If you think peoples comments on digg are stupid go read comments on youtube, or any other site for that matter.
- davidrools, on 01/21/2008, -0/+11RTFA. The only thing it has in common with a sail is that it uses wind. Everything else is completely different. It can't replace an engine and it works very differently from a fixed sail.
- misteral, on 01/21/2008, -1/+12Just curious where subby got the $1600 a day figure from?
By the chart, the savings would be 500-800 gph (gallons per hour). Let's say you saved 5000 gallons a day, 5000 of diesel has got to cost at least $15,000, no? - Sharky35, on 01/21/2008, -0/+10Save The Winds! Give Wind a Break!
- eightballrj, on 01/21/2008, -1/+11Wait... all metal ship + kite 175 meters higher than anything surrounding tethered by a very conductive carbon fiber cable + lightning storms at sea......= fireworks show!
- chatzimcfee, on 01/21/2008, -0/+10And what do you think the motor boats are made of? recycled newspaper and cans?
- russ3, on 01/21/2008, -0/+10You're obviously not helping.
- Scrappy1850, on 01/21/2008, -1/+11i hate it when my schwartz gets twisted.
- Goodanswer, on 01/21/2008, -1/+10eternity.
- OttawaMarcin, on 01/21/2008, -5/+14I think it's a wonderful idea. My question: how do you get it up? I always had trouble doing that with a kite. What if it falls in the water? On a giant ship $1600 a day is nothing (although, if you multiply it by 30 days, and by 100 ships at a company...) if it is hard to operate the kite.
Another problem would be having a giant wire swinging around on deck. It could cut the limbs off crew members and fling them into the sea. Is $1600 worth losing a limb? - OttawaMarcin, on 01/21/2008, -0/+9The wind gets covered by clouds at night.
- chatzimcfee, on 01/21/2008, -0/+9I think they have to get out and push
- spudnic, on 01/21/2008, -0/+9At least they come pre-baked.
- videographer, on 01/21/2008, -0/+9At the local gas station, yeah. In industrial quantitles, using lower-grade "bunker" fuel, no.
- marcusbrutus, on 01/21/2008, -0/+9I actually commute by Zeppelin.
- derrikirred, on 01/21/2008, -0/+9Everyone dies. Immediately.
- spudnic, on 01/21/2008, -1/+9He was talking about efficiency rather than being green.
- Sharky35, on 01/21/2008, -0/+8I'm gonna put razor blades on mine and we can ram them into each other.... it'll be sweet!
- jsauter, on 01/21/2008, -0/+8I imagine attaching the kite to a mast that is taller then crew would solve problem of random limb amputations.
As for getting it up, once the ship gets up to cruise, I bet the corresponding wind would be enough to inflate the cells and generate lift. - subwoffers, on 01/21/2008, -0/+8They will tax the wind.
- airencracken, on 01/21/2008, -0/+8Full circle.
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