China Launches a Power Station 4,000 Meters Up in the Sky

https://pandaily.com/china-s4000-high-altitude-wind-power-sep2026

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redbrick@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 6d (1 reply)

can they fly that thingy over my house so I can get some shade and generate power? My electric bills are going as high as that thingy.

eldavi@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 6d

it'll be more effective to throw some spray paint on your nearest data center. lol

ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 6d

Can I order one for Bond villain reasons

doubtingtammy@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 6d

This is so cool, but it probably has to be really far from air traffic. I imagine a bunch of these like 100 miles off the coast, providing electricity to a desalination plant and hydrogen generator on the coast

lettruthout@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 6d (3 replies)

Isn’t that a picture of an airship, not a power station?

verdigris@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 6d (2 replies)

The power station is airship shaped. The picture does look like it could be a render, not sure.

lettruthout@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 6d (1 reply)
ZeroHora@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 6d

I think you linked to the wrong article: China tests Boeing 747-length airship airborne wind turbine at 4,000 metres .

It genuinely pisses me off how cooked "journalism" is that they don't even bother with their pictures, and it's even worse when they just use AI generated images.