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Company Wants To Put Power Plants In the Sky

Posted by samzenpus on from the silver-powered-lining dept.

Zothecula writes "Harvesting power from the wind and the sun is nothing new. We've seen flying wind turbines and solar power plants that aim to provide clean renewable energy. UK-based New Wave Energy has a bolder idea in the works. The company plans to build the first high altitude aerial power plant, using networks of unmanned drones that can harvest energy from multiple sources and transmit it wirelessly to receiving stations on the ground."

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  1. Re:Wake me when it makes more power than it consum by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm pronuclear but I think it's pretty well demonstarted that TEPCO can be called anything but truthful.

    Whilst I understand your desire to downplay events we do need to accept that nuclear does have one very real and dangerous flaw: People.

    Yes the tech, especially today's designs, are safe.

    But, as long as you have penny pinching arsehats running the show, things are going to go wrong.