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 the tether design, since the measured strength of carbon nanotubes appears great enough to make this possible
On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 4:41 PM, Terry Blanton <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 automated > prototype of its airborne wind turbine (AWT). > > The completed commercial version would rest at 1,000 feet, where winds > are stronger and more consistent, according to Altaeros Energies." > > <end excerpt> > >
