Nereus, kite-powered water craft concept
- Posted by Alex Ion in Transportation, Wind power
Jun 6,2008
Using wind to get from place A to place B is quite unusual for most of us. But, how about about the Nereus, the water pad racer for adrenaline junkies? Inspired by kite sailing, these pix are aconceptual design of a kite-powered water craft capable of achieving relatively high speeds both on and under the water.
Inspired by ET?!
Though I’m not sure if how much of a storm is necessary to get your 200 lb body out of the water with all that sea drag, I’ll have to believe the designers when they say the design of the vessel and the kite is sufficient. Controlling the Nereus is just as easy as riding a bike they say. All you have to do is turn the handlebars which are attached to the kite. To dive, just push down.
Though we wouldn’t expect to go from Newport Beach to Long Beach, even if you’re well trained to use wind power, the Nereus sure looks capable to deliver. I’m game for test-driving it.
Anyone else?
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6 Responses to “Nereus, kite-powered water craft concept”
waw,this invention would be awesome.
i would like one of this
It looks pretty cool. I’m thinking this will only be one of those concepts that never really take off. Like the Segway
Ya, Brad we’re definitely disappointed ourselves because it may never take off. Wouldn’t you try it though? At least to rent one while on a vacation on the beach
Looks really cool. Has a couple fatal design flaws though. The main one is that the designer obviously has never had any exposure to kite surfing. When you kite surf (or sail kite powered Catamarans as I did in Maui), the kite doesn’t pull you forward (downwind), it pulls downwind, but your direction of motion is crosswind. This craft is set up to pull pretty much straight downwind. This means you can’t tack (sail upwind) and the kite will fall out of the sky.
Also, in order to generate power in the kite, you need to be able to fly a sine wave pattern. Since the handlebars are connected directly to the power lines (90% of the kites pull) as well as the steering lines, you would not be able to control the kite at all.
I would so buy this if i had money and i lived on the beach!
This is awsome!
Most excellent~*
dear Ben if i were u will try this thing, it seems like there’s no way to go up wind but it does and it does it really good ……its not as eficient as a kiteboard but aparently when u get used to it is much easyer,.. i saw some guys testing a promodel which isnt the one in the picture and this shit is really fun. saludos.
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