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  • Source:
    Popular Science. May2006, Vol. 268 Issue 5, p50-54. 5p. 2 Color Photographs, 1 Map.
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    • Subject Terms:
      KITES; MARITIME shipping; CULP, David; SHIPS; SKYSAILS GmbH & Co. KG; ENERGY conservation; KITE surfing
    • Subject Terms:
      GERMANY
    • Abstract:
      The article looks at the potential role of kites in shipping as of May 2006. Kitesail designer David Culp sees diesel ships hitched to giant kites and towed on their courses by ocean winds. The German government provided fund to a start-up, SkySails to retrofit a substantial segment of the world's commercial fleet with huge fuel-saving kites. In October 2004, SkySails rigged a barge with a scale model of its own kitesail system and tested it in the Baltic Sea.