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World’s first megawatt-level airborne 'windmill' feeds power to grid
(interestingengineering.com)
this post was submitted on 14 Jan 2026
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makes sense over deserts and large bodies of water, ideally they'd find ways to redirect lightning strikes, or be able to channel them and use hydrogen instead of helium - maybe individual H bags enclosed within a larger envelope of the lighter inert