Omg but imagine if we burnt coal to power a steam piston to make it faster. Then we wouldn’t even need kites!
giant kites
So CNN and some tech bros discovered sailing. Humanity is saved
A ship powered by the wind? It’ll never work.
“Giant kites” is indeed how an alien, or a child, might describe a sail.
Only if they don’t realize that kites are actually a real propulsion method distinct from sails. Kite propelled ships look nothing like sailing ships.
Nonsense, they clearly mean to leash giant birds of prey to the ship and have it pulled by a team of them.
That’s what they’re doing to cut emissions from planes, dummy. Cars are going to use horses.
For once the article title is quite accurate, when they say “giant kite” they means something like that:
I misread the news headline and for a moment I thought it said “giant kitties could pull cargo ships”, and my brain delivered a very different picture than the article did …