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Last weekend, at the beach, there were a lot of kite surfers.
On the road home there were a lot of large, fast vehicles. Watching the disruption of the air, above the highway, I realised there was probably a way to hitch a ride on the moving "river" of air that was being dragged along with the traffic.
Kiting,
or ballooning, along that "river" may be a way to increase highway capacities and have a lot of fun doing it.
Get your equipment here
http://www.windmast...Christiane_0059.jpg
Grassboarding, apparently, is the name for land-based kite surfing. [DrCurry, Oct 14 2005]
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I dont believe there's much net flow, instead its more just turbulence. The air sits mainly where it is, just diverts around the vehicles, creating pockets of pressure. I think you'd do a lot of rocking forward and back, but in the end would not really go anywhere (except under the wheels of a semi) |
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Which isn't all that bad. |
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Kinda my point, in the end, [jdn]. Think of it as nature's human garden, weeding itself. |
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I just finished reading Snow Crash, a great book where people with jobs as a Kourier would get around by, essentially, latching onto cars and riding behind them on a skateboard. This idea seems similar, i like it! |
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[Kenry52], you're thinking of Back to the Future I, II, and III. |
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The wind caused by trucks and cars is very turbulent - I would guess that would make kite surfing difficult, if not impossible. But then I could never get the hang of regular windsurfing, anyway. |
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