Topic: High Altitude Wind Turbines

High Altitude Wind Turbines

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July 3, 2009 at 11:32 am #984
dArtagnan	Computerworld has an article about some research being done at Stanford on high altitude wind turbines. It also mentions recent advances in solar power. Thought it might be of interest to the forum. If anyone has additional info, please post. Thanks. dArt
July 4, 2009 at 12:27 am #6808
Carl-Pålsson	I agree high altitude turbines looks attractive. The winds are stong and “always on” up there, and there is no sound/sight pollution by a big rotor, or chance of whacking birds with it. The energy storage breakthrough on water splitting seems interesting as well, although I haven’t had time to watch the video yet.
July 4, 2009 at 10:32 am #6811
Eelco	Yeah i like the high altitude wind turbine concept as well. Ive never looked into it enough to know what the catch is, if any, though.
July 13, 2009 at 3:09 pm #6979
wohl1917	that while the winds aloft ARE always blowing, they can shift by hundreds of miles on a daily basis. In order to keep your turbine up there and generating power you’d have to be able to predict and move on the surface and/or let out enough tether and transmission lines to compensate…
July 13, 2009 at 3:54 pm #6980
i_is_j_smith	Here are two articles on using high altitude aerostats covered with PV arrays: http://www.soton.ac.uk/ses/docs/publications/Solar%20Power%20Generation%20Using%20High%20Altitude%20Platforms.pdf http://www.soton.ac.uk/ses/docs/publications/Harnessing%20High%20Altitude%20Solar%20Power.pdf Might be easier than using wind turbines.