China tests world's first megawatt-class flying wind turbine

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China tests world's first megawatt-class flying wind turbine - Lemmy.World

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Helium is a non-renewable substance which there is a global shortage of. I wonder how much it takes to lift that thing 😅
Wouldn’t hydrogen be better for lifting something like a wind turbine.
Yeah, that’s what the folks who designed the Hindenburg thought as well.
Nah, it’s perfect!
For an autonomous platform with some sort of safety mechanisms for jettisoning the air bag if a catastrophic failure occurs, hydrogen does in fact sound like a way better and less scarce lifting gas.
Wasn’t the way the Hindenburg burned due to both the Hidrogen AND the alumium oxide paint covering it?