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Harnessing High Altitude Wind Power

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the just-a-lot-of-air dept.

jakosc writes "The Economist has an interesting article about increasing the efficiency of wind-powered generators by turning them into flying wind farms. These tethered generators would harness high speed jet stream winds above 15,000 ft and in theory could give outputs of 40MW per generator (PDF). The developer's website has more details of some of the safety, technological, and economic issues."

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  1. Re:Supporting research by Threni · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    So you don't want to help design wind farms, but you support the idea of someone else doing it. You also support the idea of someone else starting a campaign so that you can tag along! Perhaps you'd like me to Google for a campaign, write them a letter on your behalf and then tell you when I've done it?