Comment on 'Windmill': China tests world’s first megawatt-level airship to capture high winds
drmoose@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I like how everyone conveniently leaves out the part that this is an emergency backup not actual full time scalable tool.
zergtoshi@lemmy.world 1 week ago
This one in particular: maybe.
The approach in gerenal: not so much.
Have a look here: skysails-power.com/systems/venyo/
drmoose@lemmy.world 1 week ago
The one you posted is not for scaling either. I just dont see how this maintenance overhead could ever scale for mass use.
zergtoshi@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I don’t know what you mean by mass use. It’s pretty clear that these approaches are meant to add to existing solutions or provide off-grid energy at remote locations.
If you can bring a standard 30 foot container there, you can consider such a kite installation, if other requirements are met.
I don’t see, you can’t use multiple installations at different locations aka scale it.
drmoose@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Basically every other option will almost always be better, no? I guess we’ll see as someone actually brings some of these to the market but my guess would be that this is not going to go anywhere.