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"High-altitude winds between 1,640 and 3,281 feet (500 and 10,000 meters) above the ground are stronger and steadier than surface winds. These winds are abundant, widely available, and carbon-free.

"The physics of wind power makes this resource extremely valuable. “When wind speed doubles, the energy it carries increases eightfold, triple the speed, and you have 27 times the energy,” explained Gong Zeqi "

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[–] BombOmOm@lemmy.world 4 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (4 children)

With a traditional wind turbine, if the wind speeds get too high, the turbine locks the rotation and feathers the blades. For the airship however, people will have to manually take it down and later erect it again. Hopefully they get to it in time, otherwise it's going to violently take itself down and/or fly off. Either way, that is a bunch of extra cost incurred on a regular basis.

Strikes me as an impractical solution.

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[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 4 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

That looks like a giant...

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[–] Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 21 hours ago (6 children)

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.

[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

This is intended as emergency power relief not a full time energy source.

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[–] drmoose@lemmy.world -3 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

I like how everyone conveniently leaves out the part that this is an emergency backup not actual full time scalable tool.

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