China testet die weltweit erste fliegende Windkraftanlage der Megawattklasse – sie erzeugte genug Energie, um ein Haus zwei Wochen lang mit Strom zu versorgen
https://www.livescience.com/technology/engineering/china-tests-worlds-first-megawatt-class-flying-wind-turbine-it-generated-enough-energy-to-power-a-house-for-2-weeks
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The first storm 😂
Interesting proof of concept. Scaling, durability, and cost will decide if this goes beyond a demo.
That’s honestly kind of wild to picture. A flying wind turbine sounds like something out of a sci fi movie, but if it can actually generate that much power, that’s impressive.
I’m curious how practical it is long term though. Maintenance, weather, airspace rules. Still, it’s cool to see people experimenting with new ways to capture energy instead of just scaling the same old designs.
The article doesn’t mention how long the blimp was at altitude, so that “two weeks” measurement is effectively meaningless.
Moreover, I couldn’t find any information about the costs associated with actually deploying these sorts of turbines at scale, so while wind-power may be fairly clean and inexpensive when set up correctly, there’s precious little data about the specific viability of this particular endeavor.
Also, the article reads like an AI wrote it, but I suppose that’s par for the proverbial course in this day and age.
My take: 1 house? 2 weeks? The returns are so pathetic as to not be worth the risks and dangers. A fixed wind turbine provides way more with far safer results.
It’s 5X the size of a house.
The entire sky would be filled with these things just to power a small village.
Well the dow is over 50k
It uses helium, which is so very renewable.
385 kWh in its test flight. Did the test flight last 10 minutes or 10 days? I wonder if this is a translation/reporting problem and instead they meant 385 kW. Did anyone watch the video? Did it clarify?
I guess no one else here watched the youtube video in the link. But it generated 385 kWh after a 30 min test flight.
Wow, I guess we all need to get these then. Majestic marshmallow men completely bloting out the sky
I’m assuming the real value of this is high altitude recharging of drones for surveillance?
for those who thought the Hindenburg simply didnt kill enough people, we bring you …
Good in emergency situations. When infrastructure has been destroyed, can quickly bring in some portable battery units and these to store power 24/7 weather permitting.