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  • advantage here is, that it is also a gastank ;)

  • nice project, keep it up!

  • Looks better than normal windpower with blades that has placed (birds and other species) in danger.

  • Przyznaje! pomysł dobry,tylko jeszcze Go wprowadzić do użytkowania!

  • pew pew pew. my msn messenger id is in my profile! msg me if u want! U

  • A 1.5 MW generator for a normal tower mounted wind turbine weighs 7.5 ton and the gearbox to step up the speed off the blades weighs 16.2 ton plus a 50 ton Nasal to hold it all together.

    So these blokes propose lifting 75 ton plus the weight of the blades on a kite?

    I'd want to stay WAY out of the fall raduis of that thing.

  • Very clever! I like this. I can see some subtle improvements that might make it a bit more efficient. Very nice design !

  • how do you keep the center where the gears are from rotating with the outside?

  • Same way that helicopter blades can turn without rotating the rest of the helicopter.

  • I like it BUT what are you going to do when the wind stops ,I would not like to be under it !

  • ohuk its a helium ballon so why would you be worried :s

  • If the wind stop, you can run around the yard with it :)

  • that high or even higher the wind never stops.

    I would fly it as high as the law would allow.

  • @Signzit actually the wind basically slows downs after the mesosphere

  • ooops dident say its the guvorment

  • how do you build the ufo to fire energy beams into the power converter???

  • rofl

  • I don't think it's viable!

  • What su

  • great vid 6 stars

  • They saved energy by having no sound

  • thats the thing nobody will make money so thay dont do it like thay MAY not edsactly have invinted the the cure for cancer its just that thay dont know how it will afect us or how good/bad it will work but since theres no money involved theres no testing and if it did work thay still wouldent becouse of the money if you ask me the govorment needs to stop woriing about money and get things done for a change

    the world isent all money thay just chose to make you pay for everything >:(

  • Oh, helium filled. Where's that bird? POP...oops.

  • So, I'm assuming the wind is consistent enough for this. You can barely fly a kite on top of a hill, nevermind fly one in your back garden. Who is this for? People living on the edge of cliffs?

  • so this when they made it , they will not only make them for house's but for entire citys to.

    The only problem is not a country has invested in the idea well cus how will a country make money of renewable energy?

  • If you have to ask you're too dumb to understand.

    Also, a country is just a land mass with borders drawn on maps of it by government officials. Countries can't make money, people do, then governments steal it.

  • definatly gonna be a new experiance

  • that is, well clever.

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