Random Engineering, Physics, ..., Concepts and Ideas

The aerostats are large fabric envelopes filled with helium, and can rise up to an altitude of 15,000 feet (4,600 m) while tethered by a single cable. The largest lifts a 1000 kg payload to an operating altitude providing low-level, downward-looking radar coverage. The aerostat consists of four major parts or assemblies: the hull and fin, windscreen and radar platform, airborne power generator, and rigging, and tether; they are kite balloons obtaining aerodynamic lift from relative wind as well as buoyancy from being lighter than air.

1000 kg payload, so one or two small wind turbines (150 m² both) for a potential of about 100 kW at 15 m/s wind speed. The altitude could be limited to about 200 or 300 m, the turbines becoming larger thanks to the tether saving. After all why not?