How the World’s Biggest Plane Would Supersize Wind Energy - eviltoast
  • Neato@ttrpg.network
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    8 months ago

    That last bit: yeah I imagine that’s a foghorn out to investors so they can get funded.

    For the carbon footprint, I think it’ll be negligible. For the purpose of moving blades, you’ll only need a handful of these planes. Until the wind farms really get spun up but you could easily use 1 plane per 1-5 giant windmills at a time since the transport of the blades will far outpace the construction and assembly. So unless we’re building a lot all at once, a small fleet will be all that’s needed. And the costs of this aircraft to fuel will only be a few times a normal big jet, that we have going thousands a day.

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      8 months ago

      I think that’s probably true. I think the fuel is almost certainly negligible, but the overall construction of these windmills sounds like it at least deserves discussion.

      I just think it’s weird that the WSJ appears to cover the transition to renewables with some kind of petty insistence on NOT discussing any climate issues.