Directorly Downwind Faster than the Wind

[spinn_MP]

Thanks, helicalred, for a good post.

I guess this topic will call for new contributions...

It's all about the "conservation  of energy", but let it roll... At least for a while.
Cheers!

[ramset]

Bill,
There is also the outside chance [albeit slim]
That we really don't know everything about every thing!

Chet

[tagor]

Mike. J. Furness

do you have time to learn basic physic ?
( before saying IT IS NOT WORKING !!) 

[helicalred]

There is also the outside chance [albeit slim]
That we really don't know everything about every thing!

Chet,

Never a truer word spoken.
And I think the Faster Than the Wind folk intend to keep it that way!

- Bill

[Subduction Zone]

Hello there.  I am new to this forum, but have followed this for a while.  I am not an expert, but I may be able to clear up some misconceptions on how these vehicles work.  And they do work as advertised.  One concept that helped me is that they run off of the difference in speed between two media.  That is they run off of the difference between the speed of the air, and the speed of the ground.  That way regardless of your frame of reference there is always a potential source of energy as long as the wind is blowing.  Likewise if there is no wind, then the difference between the speed of the air and the speed of the ground is zero.  There is not potential source of energy there.

I will be prepared for flame from Mike Furness.