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Re:An innovative approach to making electricity from the wind by fraggle222 on Friday September 06, 2019 @04:30AM (#20894003)
Lol, these things are big !!! I had the scale all wrong. When I saw the pictures and video I thought this plane was something one or 2 people could hold (6-12 ft wing span). Then I saw people talking about 600kW and I was like, no freaking way can you get that much power from a plane that size.

Then I saw this: https://makanipower.com/makani/images/pages/technology/cta.j...

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Re:An innovative approach to making electricity from the wind by imtringued on Friday September 06, 2019 @09:10AM (#20895272)
Compared to a single blade of a wind turbine it looks like a toy.
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Re:An innovative approach to making electricity from the wind by woodandsteel on Friday September 06, 2019 @07:38PM (#20900827)
True, but they fly up where the wind is a lot stronger. Plus being much smaller means they might be cranked out in large numbers by a factory, which would make them relatively inexpensive, and also they don't have the major shipping problems that onshore turbines have.
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