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A new wind-driven system by startup CoFlow Jet promises to reduce shipping fuel costs by up to 90% using stationary cylinders with no moving parts. Looking like old-school chimneys, these cylindrical erections take a page from the history books as the shipping industry looks at ways to readopt sails and harness the wind.
Flettner rotors are smooth cylinders with disc end plates which is spun along their long axis and, as air passes at right angles across it, the Magnus effect causes an aerodynamic force to be generated in the direction perpendicular to both the long axis and the direction of airflow.
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