Only when viewed from the north.

No, but feet are analogue. Hands are digital.

Chinese feet are smaller.

they're talking about the extra 0 on 10,000

Agreed. I had the same thought and then saw the numbers and was like wait, "which part of this is the fucked up part?"

It's because the regulatory bodies are captured by the interests of the fossil fuel companies

This is a factual statement. Whether people like how it sounds or not.

It is true, though lacking fail safes of a real democracy is a dangerous game to play in the long term, even if technically positive in an instance. As most autocratic leaders seek to gain continuous and more power. Or their predecessor does.

Lol, got your new advert campaign... Gasoline is vegan

Oil is solar power with extra steps.

Just cut out the 300 million year old middle man

The whole term fossil fuel is wrong.

Isnt all feces by definition dumb because of lack of advanced functioning brain?

I mean some small part of it is dino. But yeah by biomass it's mostly plant.

USA is pretty much the biggest country actively fighting against better methods in favor of fossil fuels, so I'd say it's an accurate statement

How so, when skysails talks about "Venyo harnesses the power of high-altitude winds with speeds of 13 m/s and a continuous output of up to 200 kW." while the S1500 is featured with "Inside this duct are 12 turbine-generator sets, each rated at 100 kW."?
It's more like factor 5-6.

What matters is scalability and how much material and cost you need to produce per energy unit. Kites (either parasails or fixed wing) are much simpler, can be scaled up too, and you only need a simple cable that pulls the generator's winch. Overall kites seem much more efficient to scale up.

IDK, the benefit to the goofy kite design is that the aerial portion is far simpler - and there's no massive energized cable hanging in the air. It's a little... non-conventional, but it's a great deal less complicated than floating a massive generator like the chinese solution. Downside is presumably lower energy density per unit, but the reduction in operational footprint might make the two designs competitive. It's good people are exploring both options!

Fair, but please name one single way to generate that kind of electrical power that can be fixed by a layperson in case something crashes.

That's a good link.

During the stampede scene in the Lion King, imagine the wildebeests were stampeding twice as fast. Then Simba's dad Mufasa would not only have quadruple the amount of energy imparted by each wildebeest, but also be trampled by twice as many wildebeests per second, so the rate of energy imparted on Mufasa per second would be 4 x 2 = 8 times greater when velocity doubles.

Thanks for the correction! I got way ahead of myself.

thx for the link! just spent the last hr reading about windmills. and although I live in a country full of them I've often wondered, but never really paused to ponder about the intricacies that go into windmill design. fascinating stuff!

Rho is density

Kinetic energy is exactly what’s harvested, which is why modern wind turbines are not far off the theoretical limit of the amount of energy that can be extracted. (Betz’s law)

By taking energy from wind, you slow it down. Slow it down too much, and it can’t get out of the way in time for new air.

Yeah and it’s amazing that they took this crazy idea from a kids cartoon and made it work!

It’s late stage capitalism.

These fools are just hoarding what they have and trying to continue the « golden age ».

China will be the next superpower for sure

To be fair, coal and oil are narratives are being pushed by foreign actors too on the US. China knows exactly how to win a race, and step 1 is to tie your opponents' shoe laces.

Contentious. Thethering increases power production by restricting the "sail movement power". The blimp part is highly/perfectly aerodynamic, and the betz limit means that a turbine does not fully "act like a parachute". Ground vehicles that proved faster than wind speed directly upwind could use similar principle to turn a propulsion prop, that increases forward/apparent wind speed generating more power.

This relates to same incredulity for faster than wind upwind ground experiment, and needs experimental proof. But principles of sailing are indeed magical, and simply generating enough power to move forward is extremely useful, even if tacking were needed.

electrolysis of water (partially from starting water reservoir, and partially from air humidity = dehumidifier step), can displace water weight with increased H2 pressure in airship. Can put an infinite amount of these over ocean with no land lease costs, but moving giant ships solves the issue of thethering them.