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Re:Wind Energy Is One of the Cheapest, and It's Getting Cheaper by Namrog84 on Monday September 04, 2017 @04:57PM (#15170820)
I don't know how practical they are but I've seen that inflatable flying windmill wind turbine thing that is meant to be 500-1000ft or higher? So doesn't that make the 100-200m a bit low on what altitude we can extract from?
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Re:Wind Energy Is One of the Cheapest, and It's Getting Cheaper by Qwertious on Tuesday September 05, 2017 @01:42AM (#15172781)
The inflatable flying windmill thing isn't particularly efficient, the future high-atmosphere wind energy source is much more likely to be kite-based wind:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMTchVXedkk

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Re:Wind Energy Is One of the Cheapest, and It's Getting Cheaper by menacingly on Monday September 04, 2017 @05:02PM (#15170847)
And I assume that the two systems (upper and lower atmosphere) aren't so isolated from one another that they don't interact
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