Comment on Floating turbine towers above — the S1500 hovers to harvest wind at 131 feet
Delilah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 hours agoFrom the article the turbine unit weighs 2204lbs so that’s ~9400 lbs total. Omni calculator says you need 348,436 standard 11" party balloons or 3,979,252 litres of helium to get off the ground and 423,779 party balloons to reach 1.5km altitude.
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 9 hours ago
It can’t weigh 2,204lbs if it floats it should weigh approximately -7,200lbs if it’s going to carry the cable and rope.
Delilah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 hours ago
I’m assuming that’s the weight of the turbine without helium in the balloon.
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 8 hours ago
So it would be even lighter if you filled it with hydrogen?
anomnom@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
Which would be the way to go, since no humans are on board and it’s probably not made out of s aluminum doped cotton.
GenosseFlosse@feddit.org 8 hours ago
Could you not add wings for additional lift?