by Marshall Brain | December 3, 2008
It seems to be intuitively obvious that a wind-powered device cannot travel faster than the wind that is powering it. But is it true? “If you were to race a floating balloon downwind in a wind-powered vehicle”, could you ever beat the balloon? Here’s one look at the answer:
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