Flettner rotor ship

Post by **fishwics** » Thu Oct 06, 2016 10:50 am

http://interestingengineering.com/world ... out-sails/

SF

Fredthecharlie · Post by **Fredthecharlie** » Thu Oct 06, 2016 8:39 pm

Nice picture but can't find details such as date and place, the link seemed to want me to play games.
Fred

Post by **AYRSwebadmin** » Thu Oct 06, 2016 9:10 pm

Link amended
or you could go to http://www.enercon.de/en/news/news-deta ... -e-ship-1/
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mikehoward · Post by **mikehoward** » Mon Mar 20, 2017 10:20 am

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.

MikeP2309 · Post by **MikeP2309** » Thu Oct 26, 2017 3:16 pm

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

Post by **fishwics** » Fri Nov 10, 2017 3:50 pm

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

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