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Flettner rotor ship

Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2016 10:50 am
by fishwics

Re: Flettner rotor ship

Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2016 8:39 pm
by Fredthecharlie
Nice picture but can't find details such as date and place, the link seemed to want me to play games.
Fred

Re: Flettner rotor ship

Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2016 9:10 pm
by AYRSwebadmin

Re: Flettner rotor ship

Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2017 10:20 am
by mikehoward
The ship in the photograph is called E SHIP and is owned by the German Wind Turbine manufacturer - Enercon. The ship came into service on the 2nd August 2008 and is used to deliver Enercon's products Worldwide.

Re: Flettner rotor ship

Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2017 3:16 pm
by MikeP2309
Newly joined - apologies for resurrecting a topic long done-with, but I just wonder :- are the rotors for electricity generation? not, presumably, directly contributing to propulsion. Also, is there a gyroscopic effect on stability?
Mike

Re: Flettner rotor ship

Posted: Fri Nov 10, 2017 3:50 pm
by fishwics
As far as I can tell from the press release, they're for propulsion, and, although nothing says so, they could be useful for close quarter manoeuvring given that there is one at each corner of the ship.

I'm not quite sure how you generate electricity from a rotor - they are not self-spinning, but have to be powered. You could use several instead of the blades of a windmill I suppose (thinking about it, that may have been done) but I'm open to ideas.

Simon