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China tests world's first megawatt-class flying wind turbine (www.livescience.com)
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[–] NinePeedles@sh.itjust.works 87 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

While in the US our brilliant leader is trying to reopen old coal mines.

[–] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

That being said, there are American companies that have been working on flying wind turbines for quite a while.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 6 points 2 hours ago

We have working models. The difference is the Chinese can say “make it happen”, and they do it. In the US they say, “Gimme lots of investment capital and how can I profit massively off of this?” so it goes nowhere quick.

Maybe we should call them “AI power dirigibles” and people will put some money into it.