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 <[email protected]> escreveu: > 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> >> >> >
