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Another version of the idea is still around: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotor_ship https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotor_ship
by WorkerBee28474 3mo ago
Another version of the idea is still around:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotor_ship https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotor_ship
- eesmith 3mo agoI first learned about it in the 1980s, in an issue of Popular Science. Ahh, this 1984 issue of PopSci - https://archive.org/details/popular-science-1984-no.-1/mode/2up?q=%22Magnus+effect%22+%22popular+science%22 https://archive.org/details/popular-science-1984-no.-1/mode/... . Ohh, a year previous PopSci talked about using the Magnus effect for wind turbine blades. https://archive.org/details/popular-science-1983-no.-8/mode/2up?q=%22Magnus+effect%22+%22popular+science%22 https://archive.org/details/popular-science-1983-no.-8/mode/... In any case, it's another gadget which "seems to have durable appeal to entrepreneurs and/or suckers."