But if a big gust of wind pushes the ship too far to the left, the solution is not to figure out a way to generate an equally-sized gust of wind to push the ship back in the other direction.

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The ship departed the wind-blasted town of Puerto Natales at first light, with passengers boarding the night before.

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The ship would use 60% wind power, relying on three computer-operated masts rising 55-meters -- as tall as a 14-storey building.

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But the Albula steepens quickly, and the river disappears into a dramatic ravine, forcing the train to criss-cross the gorge, creaking like a sailing ship in a full-bellied wind.

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Man, this all sounds a little too weird to be true, but apparently Wind River's VP of Marketing told LinuxDevices that they do have at least one customer who expects to ship a phone in the US running Wind River Linux before Christmas.

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The ship's power is set to come from solar, wind and wave power with biofuel in case nature doesn't cooperate -- when the vessel isn't adrift via ocean currents.

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Unusually for a car ferry, this ship would use three, massive computer-controlled sails to harness the maximum wind energy.

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The ship is expected to arrive in Mobile Wednesday afternoon or, if sea and wind conditions worsen, early Thursday, he estimated.

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I'm writing this blog from Petermann Glacier in northwest Greenland, where a cold katabatic wind is blowing off the ice onto the deck of the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise.

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