Electricity from MARS
One of the things you'll hear critics of renewable energy often say is that the sun doesn't always shine and the wind doesn't always blow. But of course we know that isn't the case. If you go high enough from the earth's surface, the sun never stops shining and though no one has seen it, the wind is always blowing. We've talked about beaming the solar energy to earth before and we have even shown you this particular wind-powered energy producer before. At the time, some commented it would never fly but the maker of the Magenn Air Rotor System (MARS) has survived long enough to see it happen.The blimp, technically called an aerostat, recently underwent its initial inflation trials at the facilities of premiere airship builder, TCOM, and was then taken to Virginia to be demonstrated for
[Source: The Daily Advance]
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Joseph 11:51PM (5/09/2008)
Hooray!
I hope this really happens. When I first saw this a few years ago and now it might become a reality.
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Kevin Nugent 2:30AM (5/10/2008)
so how ill the juice get down to earth to power. lets say a home??
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Chris M 3:06AM (5/10/2008)
It is tethered by a cable, which can also carry the power generated back to the ground.
More important questions are: How long can they make the tether? How high can this thing go? How do we keep aircraft from colliding with the ballon or tether?
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brent desroches 8:15PM (5/10/2008)
Commercial aircraft have standard flight paths, and this means that there would be certain areas where these could not be anchored. You may need to worry about recreational aircraft still.
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