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'Windmill': China tests world’s first megawatt-level airship to capture high winds
(interestingengineering.com)
this post was submitted on 25 Sep 2025
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As cool as this is, I"m also super interested in what happens ~~if~~ when the cable breaks.
Same as if you let go of a kite. It'll just tumble back down to Earth over some distance.
Pretty sure they have more than one cable on this thing.
Ok.
Like, how far will it go? A hundred kilometers? a thousand? Ten thousand? I just imagine one of things getting lose and it circling half the globe.