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Now THAT’S A GREAT IDEA!.......
Are they using sky hooks to hold them up?
Unfortunately the jet stream isn’t always in the same place.
I have always been fascinated by science, especially when I was in grade school and junior high school. I remember an article in Reader’s Digest sometime in the 50’s that listed 10 things that would revolutionize the world if someone could invent them or figure out how to do them. I only recall one of them now, but they have not been discovered or invented. One thing they discussed was how you could lay 10 pieces of steel in the sun and each would heat to a certain temperature but there no one had figured out a way to add the heat from all 10 to get a higher temperature than in any single piece.
The jet streams move around constantly. The generator and anchor station would have to constantly relocate.
The Earth is already tapping into the Jet Stream. Look at Greensburg.
And then you have the problem of the wires and aircraft.
A hazard that relocates day to day.
Experts always say that. They don't get the funding if they don't.
Doesn’t the jet stream shift position all the time? I’d hate to be around when that rotor kite comes crashing to the ground as the Jet stream has moved on.
Cute is about all I can say. If the so-called climate change crisis can wait long enough for these technologies to be viable then it ain’t a crisis at all.
As long as HUGE amounts of government funds are infused so as to support these otherwise unemployable scientific idiots and public trough feeders.
6 to 9 miles of ‘string’ is a lot of string for a kite.
LOL oh yeah.... they could use this energy generation to power the “space elevator”.
LOL oh yeah.... they could use this energy generation to power the “space elevator”.
This would be a hazard for aircraft that use the jet stream to reduce flight time and save fuel.
Not that it will ever be practicle, or do-able, or feasable, or anything, but I like people who think big like this.
I have always said that, unlike our Luddite Leftists, I believe that Technology will save us from whatever environmental ills befall us. But in order for this to be so, we must keep PUSHING our economies and technologies FORWARD, not backward, like the tree-huggers want to do.
This is the sort of idea dreamed up by a liberal arts college major, a mathematician or even a physicist.
Focused on the trees and oblivious to the forest.
The jetstream has been a constant forever, as far as I know. I has a role in world climate and weather everywhere.
The existing climate models are prbably 20% complete in identifying the factors that go into weather and climate, and that figure is not likely to be improved any time soon.
Nobody knows what he "doesn't know".
The jetstream is similarly a mystery.
The reality is that, assuming that significant amounts of energy could be extracted, nobody is in a position to know what the effect would be on world climate and weather.
The "energy" idiot has no clue what the magnitude of the disaster that he is triggering can be.
Stupid stupid idea.
The problem with "entrepeneurs is that they are predators. Very good at dreaming up ways to get rich, but usually (999 out of 1000) totally and hopelessly ignorant of the technical aspects of what they seek to do, as well as of science and cause and effect.
True scientists admit that even in their chosen fields, the feel humbled by what they don't know.
"Entrepeneurs" have no such built in reality check. Never have; never will.