[lbo-talk] Flying Wind Turbine - surveying a possible new industry

[Mark Wain]

Fine ideas but the transmission means could be made wireless by using
microwave which would beam down along a straight line. The catch is that the
receiver end on earth has to be safely aligned with the sending source.

I proposed some 15 years or so ago the microwave idea  to a professional
journal and was rejected then. Now the shrinking oil resource and fossil
fuel pollution hazards made that proposal closer to an acceptability level
than before.

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Subject: [lbo-talk] Flying Wind Turbine - surveying a possible new industry


> http://www.grist.org/article/flying-energy-generators-a-breakthrough-ready-to-happen
> http://tinyurl.com/flyingwnd
>
> Flying Energy Generators: maybe the next big thing.
> More than pie in the sky
>
> There is a nascent industry that may be on the verge of generating
> inexpensive, and most importantly reliable, electricity from renewable
> sources - requiring comparatively small amounts of public funding to
> push through to success.
>
> An untapped wind resource
>
> Wind power on commercially developable sites could supply 72
> Terawatts, many times the power the world consumes today[2]. U.S wind