Posted: Mar 06, 2011 3:56 am
The_Metatron wrote:It peeves me to no end to be told what I have or haven't read.
Perhaps they should have said that you failed to understand it, rather than saying you failed to read it. Frankly, it peeves me to no end when someone claims I'm pulling a hoax because they simply don't understand how it works.
While sailing at an angle to the wind direction can, and does, achieve vehicle speeds in its direction of travel that are greater than the wind speed in its direction, in no case does the vector component of the vehicle's velocity in the same direction as the wind equal the wind velocity, let alone exceed it.
That is just entirely wrong. I can only assume you reached that conclusion by digging deep into your powers of intuition. A quick vector analysis or about 30 seconds on Google would tell you differently.
There's no such thing as a free lunch.
But you seem to be the only one claiming that a wind powered vehicle is tantamount to a free lunch.