Ugh. Well, Makani was the company I was thinking of. They started in 2006, Google bought them in 2013 and shut it down in 2020. Fucking Google…
Comment on China tests world's first megawatt-class flying wind turbine
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 8 hours agoWe have working models. The difference is the Chinese can say “make it happen”, and they do it. In the US they say, “Gimme lots of investment capital and how can I profit massively off of this?” so it goes nowhere quick.
Maybe we should call them “AI power dirigibles” and people will put some money into it.
ramenshaman@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 5 hours ago
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