http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2122762/Airborne-power-generator-produce-energy-1-000-feet.html
Altaeros Energies, a U.S wind energy company formed out of the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, announced that it has
successfully generated energy from 350 feet up with an
You gotta love stuff like this!
I wonder if there is enough helium to deploy this on a significant scale
worldwide?
I suppose it would not be the worst thing in the world to use hydrogen. An
explosion of an unmanned airship turbine might not be more catastrophic
than, say, a large helium leak
Offshore could be an option.
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Il 03 aprile 2012 23:11, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com ha scritto:
You gotta love stuff like this!
I wonder if there is enough helium to deploy this on a significant scale
worldwide?
I suppose it would not be the worst thing in the world to use
Michele Comitini wrote:
Offshore could be an option.
You mean, an offshore hydrogen explosion would not be such a big deal.
Good point.
Actually, the danger of hydrogen has been overstated ever since the
Hindenburg disaster. Not that I would want people going up in hydrogen
Il 03 aprile 2012 23:31, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com ha scritto:
Michele Comitini wrote:
Offshore could be an option.
You mean, an offshore hydrogen explosion would not be such a big deal. Good
point.
Yes of course. I wasn't talking about taxes, but there would be large
benefits
This technology is just a starting point. The end game in flying wind mill
development is a plane like robot that can fly a holding pattern in the 200
mph winds of the stratosphere connected to the ground by a carbon nanotube
and/or boron nitride nanotube based material as the tensile element in
Wouldn't this be a major threat concerning commercial airlines?
I mean, to become really competitive, I suppose it would be necessary to
install these things not too far away from cities.
Otherwise, it is a great idea to harvest upper atmospheric winds.
Em 3 de abril de 2012 19:17, Axil Axil
Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote:
This technology is just a starting point. The end game in flying wind mill
development is a plane like robot that can fly a holding pattern in the 200
mph winds of the stratosphere connected to the ground by a carbon
nanotube and/or boron nitride nanotube .
Bruno Santos besantos1...@gmail.com wrote:
Wouldn't this be a major threat concerning commercial airlines?
Yes, it would. I think that GPS navigation systems would suffice to prevent
collisions but maybe not. You would not want them near Atlanta or L.A.
where we have lots of air traffic.
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