Comments by "Diana Pennepacker" (@dianapennepacker6854) on "Airborne Wind Turbines: The Future of Clean Energy?" video.

  1. Like someone else commented. Hydrogen is the way to go. Not helium. Helium is basically a finite resource. We should save it.
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  2. I see these as an amazing solution for. 1) Military. 2) Survival/Remote places. 3) Emeregency workers after a disaster. Being able to produce energy for cheaper in some remote location seems great. Lots of barren places on earth with free sky above! For infrastructure purposes? I sort of doubt it unless these get incredibly big, or fly higher. I mean the whole advantage is to take advantage of high altitude winds right? Yet none of em seem to do it. Nor do generators of any sort seem to be able to handle those high turbulent winds! So even if they could get higher. Could they actually take advantage of it? Dunno. Tidal also has a long way to go. The issue there is simply the cost of installing then more importantly maintaining. The ocean is brutal on equipment. Now that pervoskites and batteries are coming online. Going to be tough for some of the other technologies to get cheap enough to compete. I do hope millimeter wave drilling takes off along with those enclosed loop systems so we aren't spreading toxic shyte already in the ground into the water table.
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  3.  @Critical-Thinker895  Nooo man Helium shouldn't be used for balloons if it can be helped. It is finite, and high tech equipment needs it. Like MRI machines, or anything that uses super cooled magnets. Lasers! Fusion! Hydrogen is fine. We can make it safe. This application doesn't involve passengers! Maybe if we started producing more nuclear. I hear it is a byproduct of at least some reactors. Fusion definitely can. They say we only have enough helium for 200 years max. Some say 10!
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  4. Hydrogen is garbage for things like EVs, and I don't think it is a main energy storage solution either. For things like lifting? Absolutely! I would even fly in a modern hydrogen airship. Hindenburg wasn't even the worse airship crash. The Akron was with 73 deaths. Then the R 101. The Akron was a Helium filled airship too, but has double the deaths. Huh. Anyway I can understand others not wanting to be in a hydrogen airship. Yet this is a turbine with no people ever going into it. Hydrogen would be fine.
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