Technology

is it 131ft long? 🤔

Probably because the article was AI generated, if I had to guess.

at least 2 breeding heifers

2"Ø UHMWPE rope has a breaking strength of ~375000lbs weighs 94lbs per 100' so about 4700lbs for 5000'

That said I have know idea if 2"Ø is the correct diameter rope to anchor one of these balloons.

Source: RightRope.com

edit: I was originally planning on adding in the weight of a high voltage transmission cable, but I'm on my phone and feeling lazy, maybe some one else will feel more inspired than I.

Ummm… 10 knots * 200 = 2000 knots. I don’t think so lol.

First of all, kinetic energy scales with the square of an objects velocity.

Second, since we're talking about a continuous stream of fluid instead of a single object, increasing the air speed not only increases the enegy per unit mass of air, but also the number of units of air per second that pass through the turbine. Which means that the amount of energy extracted scales by the cube of the wind speed.

https://kpenergy.in/blog/calculating-power-output-of-wind-turbines

So, more like going from 10 knots to 60.

I can't be arsed to dig up the equation, but it may mean that the wind has 200 times more usable energy, which I think is a cube function of its speed. Wouldn't be 2000 knots in that case

they gonna use magsafe connectors for wireless transmission, duh.

Maybe it means the kinetic energy of the wind, which I believe scales against its velocity-squared?

Still better than coal

These are a massive liability every storm. You have to winch them down and get them into a blisteringly massive hangar that can hold them. Then get them set back up after. Every. Single. Storm.

https://www.renewableenergyworld.com/solar/utility-scale/texas-hailstorm-damages-thousands-of-solar-panels-at-350-mw-farm/

Yes it's odd to see an article about electricity generation technology that doesn't even have a speculative 'levelised cost of energy' as they call it. That is lifecycle expected average $/MWh.

I guess its a very early prototype. and maybe China doesn't care to much about LCOE.

Just throw a dart at it and wait for it to come down.

If it's tethered, the tether can winch it down to ladder truck range.

That or helicopter.

Unfortunately, I could not find a link to the manual.

Altitude: 1500 meters

Weight: Under 1000kg

I read an article about it a while ago, and that said it'd be tethered to the ground, and power would be transfered through the tether.

If only there was a giant cable it was tethered to that could also carry electricity.

It's obviously attached with wires. It can't just float around and generate energy.

Through a HV cable run to the ground, along with the cable to anchor it.