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World’s first megawatt-level airborne 'windmill' feeds power to grid (interestingengineering.com)

submitted 4 months ago by sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al to c/energy@slrpnk.net

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[-] swicano@programming.dev 8 points 4 months ago

I wonder how it compares in size to a traditional windmill of similar power, and how densely they hope to pack them (units per acre). I bet you can barely notice it 2 km away even though it's almost 200 feet long

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[-] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 3 points 4 months ago

2km are 1.2miles

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