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500 to 1,000 meters AGL is going to be a problem for aircrafts. You need remote areas to have no interference bc these are big balloons.
Paint the balloons red and put lights on them so aircraft don't hit them.
Why red? Paint it like a brick wall so they can pass through.
Why red?
Because it makes the blood stains less noticeable.
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This is intended as emergency power relief not a full time energy source.
Hmm interesting. I don't see how it could be economical as an emergency-only power source. To build them and store them for occasional use seems pretty unappealing. Surely if you had them, you'd use them to generate electricity/passive income.
You could think of them as easily mobile power systems, available to respond to emergencies, but used wherever is convenient the rest of the time.
So yeah, they'll still be a hazard for air traffic, but luckily we do have an established solution for that, the blinking red light. Also, controlled airspace around airfields.
It has emergency quick deploy flexibility but seems economical as permanent installation too. Where emergency power can charge 50c/kwh+ instead of 10c/kwh, relocating quickly is much more power/profitablity than gasoline generators (which cost 50c/kwh in just fuel costs which also need emergency transportation).
That is really cool!
I assume they have designed these in a way that doesn't adversely impact migratory birds
Is that thing going to be able to float itself and support the weight of the cables at the altitudes they talk about?
Tether to the ground limits X-axis. Buoyancy limits Y-axis. Draw a circle around the sine of ground-to-windmill hypotenuse and you immediately know the max constraints of where the windmill will be
