▲ 0 r/wind

Why can't we build ships that make use of wind power?

Generating energy from wind has been a thing for a while now. Huge wind farms are being built in seas across the world as the sea tends to be windy. Why can't they invent a way for ships to capture wind to help propel them through the water?

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u/MrSuperAwesomeGuy965 — 4 days ago
▲ 0 r/Ships

Why can't we build ships that make use of wind power?

Generating energy from wind has been a thing for a while now. Huge wind farms are being built in seas across the world as the sea tends to be windy. Why can't they invent a way for ships to capture wind to help propel them through the water?

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u/MrSuperAwesomeGuy965 — 5 days ago
▲ 11 r/london

Saw a Sopwith Mustang

Saw this Sopwith Mustang near RAF littler Hill, South London. It was flying at 71.75 feet and 800.85 knots.

Photographed from a Canberra

u/MrSuperAwesomeGuy965 — 5 days ago

What if the RAF focused on producing the De Havilland Mosquito instead of heavy bombers?

Could carry a good bomb load for its size, incredibly quick and very difficult for the Luftwaffe to intercept. Smaller crews and greater crew survivability. Could conduct precision bombing rather than area bombing.

Area bombing is still hotly debated about it's worth and value to the war effort. It cost a lot of lives in bomber crews and civilians on the ground. Instead of large fleets of Lancaster's and Halifax's dropping tons of explosives and fire bombs over large areas of cities would the RAF have been better served by focusing on a larger fleet of Mosquitos to accurately pin point and destroy targets of military and economic importance (if they could overcome the wood shortage)

u/MrSuperAwesomeGuy965 — 6 days ago