The Magnus effect is a interesting and useful phenomena. [James Whomsley] from [Project Air] decided to put it to work on a small radio-controlled boat, successfully harnessing the effect. (Video, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A 1925 Popular Science illustration of Anton Flettner's rotor ship, a "sailing ship without sails," that amazed readers—and Albert ...

The Magnus effect is a interesting and useful phenomena. [James Whomsley] from [Project Air] decided to put it to work on a small radio-controlled boat, successfully harnessing the effect. (Video, ...

Polar diagram at a 25m/s True Wind Speed comparing a conventional Flettner rotor with the tail-appended Flettner rotor. © EcoNavis The flow regime, represented by ...

The latest ship to be retrofitted with the state-of-the-art Norsepower Rotor Sails for cutting emissions is the Dietrich Oldendorff, a Post-Panamax (modern) bulk carrier operated by the German-based ...

The Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) is looking for partners to develop a type of mechanical sail for large ships that, it claims, could improve their fuel efficiency by 10 per cent. Called ...

The Dutch shipping company family Switijnk has contracted C-Job Naval Architects to develop a Rotor Sail-equipped design to meet their specific loading and sailing profile. The contract follows the ...

The same physics effect that allows pitchers to throw sliders and sinker balls was once used to propel ships. And if this Swedish engineering firm is successful, it will again. Known as the Magnus ...

Somewhere between Finland and Sweden, a ship surges through the icy Baltic Sea with a strange white tower protruding, totem-like, from its deck. It may not look like it, but this tall spindle is a ...

From towing kite propulsion to sails fitted with solar panels, modern engineers have been working hard to find ways to make our increasing reliance on big cargo shipping more energy efficient and ...