Hello Tallak:
As someone who has ridden ski lifts my entire life, worked at a ski resort, etc., I would say the cable part of ski lifts isn’t usually all that noisy, but the speed is reasonable. if you tried to increase the speed where the chairs were in the Indianapolis 500 car race on the oval track, with cables going around sheaves (pulleys) that fast, OMG, it does not seem like a viable concept to me. The main reason wind turbines have evolved as the simplest solution to transfer kinetic energy in the wind to electricity is that blades can go 6 times the windspeed, whereas the speeds of the mechanical stuff is slow enough to operate quietly and with longevity. These things gotta last 20 years or more. I’ve always loved ideas like this one, but as usual, it’s all those pesky details. Adding little turbines on the blades - yeah, sure, now you’re supporting more structure, more vibration, more complication, and you’ve gotta get that power from the track to the grid somehow… 
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