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Kite-Powered Ship Launched

Posted by kdawson on from the aeolius-called-left-message dept.

The Grand Poobah writes "The big-kite technology we discussed last month has officially launched in Hamburg, Germany. Reuters has a writeup of the new technology, which aims to cut fossil fuel use on sea voyages by an estimated 20% by means of a huge computer-controlled kite. The link includes a video."

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  1. Re:It's called reinventing the... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    More flies with Honey than vinegar?... you don't read http://xkcd.com/357/ do you?

    also, since i cant spell, i tried typing viniger as such... try it out and see what Firefox wants to replace it as...

    However I do agree with everything you are saying.