Wind-powered cart that travels 2 times faster than the wind - AGAINST the wind! Also tr... - 1 views
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johannessimon81 on 02 Nov 13Apparently this cart settled some longstanding physics dispute... Would there be a way to think of something similar using solar wind? *no clue*
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LeopoldS on 03 Nov 13the counterintuitive aspect in my view is not the travelling against he wind but the faster than wind travelling with the wind, where the simple trick of having the wheels power the propeller flips the mind to understand it easily ... (http://www.wired.com/autopia/2010/06/downwind-faster-than-the-wind/)
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johannessimon81 on 04 Nov 13But from that point of view it should also be counter-intuitive that it travels against the wind at twice the speed of the wind...