Offshore wind, one of many energy sources that was going to help New York meet incredibly ambitious goals to decarbonize its ...

But as a species we wouldn’t have made it very far if it was only possible to sail in the same direction the wind is blowing. There are a number of methods for sailing upwind, but generally only ...

To explain why this is, Mould starts with a model of a boat that has its sail at 45 degrees and pushes it side on. At this angle, the model boat moves as far forward as the simulated wind does ...

It’s a machine that can move with the wind at a speed faster than the wind itself. A fundamental law of sailing boats is that when they are sailing with the wind, i.e. in the same direction as ...