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sabreW4K3 ( sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al )  to Green Energy@slrpnk.netEnglish · 10 months ago

World’s first megawatt-level airborne 'windmill' feeds power to grid

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World’s first megawatt-level airborne 'windmill' feeds power to grid

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sabreW4K3 ( sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al )  to Green Energy@slrpnk.netEnglish · 10 months ago
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China tested a megawatt-class airborne wind power system that flew to 6,560 feet and fed 385 kWh of electricity into the grid in Sichuan.
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  • Spacehooks ( Spacehooks@reddthat.com ) 
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    Now make it cool looking like a dragon or silly like whale or ufo

    • belated_frog_pants ( belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org ) 
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      That would be so fun if everyone made one that celebrates local customs

  • beeng ( beeng@discuss.tchncs.de ) 
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    Feels very much like the future is finally here. We’re accelerating

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  • swicano ( swicano@programming.dev ) 
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    I wonder how it compares in size to a traditional windmill of similar power, and how densely they hope to pack them (units per acre). I bet you can barely notice it 2 km away even though it’s almost 200 feet long

    • MrMakabar ( MrMakabar@slrpnk.net ) 
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      2km are 1.2miles

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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

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