Comment on 'Windmill': China tests world’s first megawatt-level airship to capture high winds

TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• CouldntCareBear@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Same as if you let go of a kite. It’ll just tumble back down to Earth over some distance.

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• funkajunk@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Pretty sure they have more than one cable on this thing.

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  • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Ok.

    As cool as this is, I"m also super interested in what happens if when the cables breaks.

    Like, how far will it go? A hundred kilometers? a thousand? Ten thousand? I just imagine one of things getting lose and it circling half the globe.

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