Really? Genuine scam? I read about it in Wired or Pop Sci, figured it was just a master's thesis, or some defense proposal.
Taryn http://ornae.com/ On Sep 11, 2005, at 5:57 PM, Mike Weaver wrote: > *Yeah, I invested in that. Ponzi scheme. > > TarynToo wrote: > >> ... >> I remember some blue sky stuff that proposed wind turbines hanging >> from >> high altitude balloons, anchored by long tethers. I suppose the >> tethers >> were supposed to carry current to the ground, though I'm now struck by >> the weight of a few miles of high tension copper or aluminum line. As >> far as staying in the jet stream, It seems like it would be trivial to >> design a self-steering system like that used for singlehand sailing. >> If >> the tether's anchor points were far enough apart, the system could >> probably swing a few miles north and south and around a hundred >> degrees >> or more of the compass, tracking the strongest winds. I think the jet >> stream shifts hundreds of miles, so I don't know what that would be >> worth. >> >> Anyway it was this kind of big scale extraction that seemed like it >> could have devastating consequences. Of course you'd need millions of >> acres of ground level turbines to extract the kind of energy that a >> wind farm hanging in the jet stream might capture. >> >> But I remember reading about this and the proposals to hang big blades >> in the gulf stream and thinking, "Oh Jeez! Another massive engineering >> project with wildly unpredictable side effects! >> >> Taryn >> http://ornae.com/ >> _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
