Comment by lolc
2 years ago
This is the funniest thing I saw this week. The idea that such a teensy drone could travel continental distances by hanging like a bat and recharge between runs. Sure solar gliders may keep aloft indefinitely too. But this one steals its juice!
https://www.pmel.noaa.gov/ocs/saildrone
>With a speed through the water of 2-8kts, they have a range of more than 16,000 nautical miles, and endurance of up to 12 months.
Different usages: the flying drone for land, this one for crossing oceans.
Combine them