High Altitude Wind Turbine Tower Design

Thanks for your contribution.

As some of the others have indicated.

  • is it necessary for the design to work to have a piston at the top?
  • isn’t it possible to make it airtight enough that it would only need to be refilled every now and then? (Perhaps 5 years intervals, When you service the turbine anyway)
  • couldn’t you design it such that the you don’t have to adjust the pressure when it’s cold and warm?

I think you can afford to transfer the loads from the intermediate guy cables to the tower section directly. The cables along the tower seems unnecessary.

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