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Re:How the Biggest Plane Would Supersize Wind Energy by youngtaff on Thursday March 14, 2024 @04:33AM (#39701597)
Plus how long does each turbine need to operate for before it mitigates the CO2 and other pollutants produced by building and operating the plane?
Re:How the Biggest Plane Would Supersize Wind Energy by Retric on Friday March 15, 2024 @11:32AM (#39716880)
If they move 3,000 blades for ~15MW turbines then a 20% improvement in capacity factor alone is worth 3,066,000 metric tons of CO2 year. Edit: (Ops 10Mw * 1,000 turbines * 0.5 tons from natural gas /MW * .35% capacity factor * 20% improvement * 24 * 365 hours, coal is roughly double that.)

By comparison a commercial jet takes ~20 years to emit 1 million tons of CO2. https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/boeing-je...

Re:How the Biggest Plane Would Supersize Wind Energy by myrmidon on Friday March 15, 2024 @11:47AM (#39717058)
Assuming: 500tons of fuel for the transport of the 3 blades (comparison: AN225 with higher max payload weight guzzled ~15tons/hour).

You could have used that energy to produce 500000kg * 40MJ/kg * 40% = 8TJ. The turbine would need ~40d to produce this (~25% capacity factor, 10MW nameplate power):

8TJ / (10[MW] * 25% * 3600[s/h] * 24[h/d])

Re:How the Biggest Plane Would Supersize Wind Energy by bunabhucan on Friday March 15, 2024 @11:26PM (#39723114)
The existing option is semi trucks traveling in daylight with additional vehicles supervising and special self steering trailers, local PD stopping traffic if necessary, new roads being built or existing ones improved.
Re:How the Biggest Plane Would Supersize Wind Energy by threeseed on Saturday March 16, 2024 @01:32AM (#39723617)
From their website:

"Simultaneously, Radia is developing a world-class portfolio of wind energy projects to leverage this solution"

So they just need to deliver one of those projects for the carbon to be offset.