The storage method as described in this publication could remove the need for compression in heavy containers and therefore the doubled losses.
In addition, the hydrogen-filled blimp without moving parts could perhaps be a way to lift a wind turbine by mitigating the risk, as sketched below.
Indeed this publication precises, page 877 (just before “3. Methodology”), quoted again:
But the publication is about giant flexible balloons of 0.52 km³ (at the surface, table 3) or 1 km³ (at 6 km altitude, table 3), leading to a very large hoop stress issue preventing large scaling up:
