[Electric Boats] Station keeping Azipod -- was Re: Multidirectional Docking Electric Motors

 

I agree with Willie. Your best bet is anchoring!

Seems to me that using wind power to generate energy, to resist that very same wind energy, along with inevitable losses, is impossible. Sorta like trying to make a perpetual motion machine.

--- In electricboats@yahoogroups.com, Steamboat Willie <stmbtwle@...> wrote:
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> To be honest I think it could be made to work, but you're going to need a REALLY BIG prop to be able to develop the thrust required to push you up wind against the turbine drag.  After all, consider a sail as a big "turbine blade" and the centerboard/keel as a big "propeller blade".  In THEORY it'll work.  In practice, I dunno. 
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> Willie
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