To #33: It is nice to see someone using creative thought, when it can be deciphered. What's the deal with the horrible spelling? Is this something cool you kids are doing these days, or are you on drugs? At any rate, you look like a dumbass when you type like that...
To #35: Beam windpower using microwaves? You understand nothing about efficiency, or safety, or the achievability of such an idea. You also understand nothing about conservation of energy, according to your comment about having it's own propellers to keep it in place. Does it physically hurt to understand so little, yet still post your ill-formed opinion? You basically want to fly a kite without a string. May God help you...
To #38: You are on the right path...
To #39: You are the epitome of what is wrong with this world...
To #40: Check your sources. While the idea that nominal gas prices are missleading has merit, real gasoling prices have increased 30.76% in the last five years. Although I wouldn't worry too much, they haven't topped the 1981 peak of real prices... $3.08. Sounds like your figures assumed to high of an inflation rate. If you want to use an average, try 2.7%...
To #42: Now you're talking...
To #43: Understand the surface area interuption of, say, 10,000 of these things and the cross-sectional area of any given major meteorological pattern, and you will know that you couldn't possibly begin to interupt the jet stream. Giant killer storms from airborn windmills? Seriously...
To #47: Ok, birds? Let me tell you a story about animals: I love my dog, Patton. My dog Patton loves to find birds. I shoot these birds. Patton brings them to me. I love to eat these birds. Moral of the story: birds would much rather deal with airborne windmills than a 12 gauge packed with #8 birdshot and a German Shorthaired Pointer with a killer nose. REAL moral of my story: it is off the subject. People trying to design environmentally-friendly energy alternatives do not have time to deal with people worrying about the negligable impact of vertical cables on blind birds. Stick to what is pertinent...
SUMMARY: Just because you have never seen a flying windmill does not mean that it is ridiculous. Mahatma Ghandi would have crapped his diaper if he saw a laptop. It is economics that decides if ideas like this are feasable. I believe that the people who built nuclear refineries and space shuttles could figure out a way to fly a 35,000 ft. kite. But would it make money? Seriously, people, voice your opinions about the IMPLICATIONS of an idea like this. We don't want to hear your about your skills as an engineer or weatherman, unless you really are an engineer or weatherman.
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I would like to address some of your comments:
To #33: It is nice to see someone using creative thought, when it can be deciphered. What's the deal with the horrible spelling? Is this something cool you kids are doing these days, or are you on drugs? At any rate, you look like a dumbass when you type like that...
To #35: Beam windpower using microwaves? You understand nothing about efficiency, or safety, or the achievability of such an idea. You also understand nothing about conservation of energy, according to your comment about having it's own propellers to keep it in place. Does it physically hurt to understand so little, yet still post your ill-formed opinion? You basically want to fly a kite without a string. May God help you...
To #38: You are on the right path...
To #39: You are the epitome of what is wrong with this world...
To #40: Check your sources. While the idea that nominal gas prices are missleading has merit, real gasoling prices have increased 30.76% in the last five years. Although I wouldn't worry too much, they haven't topped the 1981 peak of real prices... $3.08. Sounds like your figures assumed to high of an inflation rate. If you want to use an average, try 2.7%...
To #42: Now you're talking...
To #43: Understand the surface area interuption of, say, 10,000 of these things and the cross-sectional area of any given major meteorological pattern, and you will know that you couldn't possibly begin to interupt the jet stream. Giant killer storms from airborn windmills? Seriously...
To #47: Ok, birds? Let me tell you a story about animals: I love my dog, Patton. My dog Patton loves to find birds. I shoot these birds. Patton brings them to me. I love to eat these birds. Moral of the story: birds would much rather deal with airborne windmills than a 12 gauge packed with #8 birdshot and a German Shorthaired Pointer with a killer nose. REAL moral of my story: it is off the subject. People trying to design environmentally-friendly energy alternatives do not have time to deal with people worrying about the negligable impact of vertical cables on blind birds. Stick to what is pertinent...
SUMMARY: Just because you have never seen a flying windmill does not mean that it is ridiculous. Mahatma Ghandi would have crapped his diaper if he saw a laptop. It is economics that decides if ideas like this are feasable. I believe that the people who built nuclear refineries and space shuttles could figure out a way to fly a 35,000 ft. kite. But would it make money? Seriously, people, voice your opinions about the IMPLICATIONS of an idea like this. We don't want to hear your about your skills as an engineer or weatherman, unless you really are an engineer or weatherman.
Patrick
Energy Analyst