Neat, but completely useless in a practical world.

What happens when you have a dozen cars running on this? Wont the sails get tangled?

sign or comment my Petition to the White House..Build The Hydrogen Economy:

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petitio…

I often wondered why electric cars don't have wind generators built in the front. It could look like a foil.

#3

Because perpetual motion doesn't exist?

@4 No, but efficiency does.

For wide open spaces, crossing a windy continent, here's the lower-tech version:

http://blog.greenbird.co.uk/wp-content/u…

@5: Good name choice. The additional resistance from turning the generator would be greater than the power generates. That's what @4 was saying.

And dear God, but Mudede is hitting new levels of nonsensical. A commercial, capitalist company does a publicity stunt to draw attention to their technology (and to refine their technology for sail) and the Mudede thinks it's a perfect example of whimsy and repudiation of purpose?