This last video, above, is typical idiot talk, by and for know-nothing idiots. It;s all based on lies that only know-nothing idiots will believe. Almost every statement by the science guy is in error. He is merely regurgitating the lies of the promoters of the blimp turbine, desperate for acceptance, lying to achieve it.
Since the entire script consists of mostly lies, they are too numerous to list, but here are a few:
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That Altaeros was an MIT project. no, the promoters were said to have once attended MIT, but that does not make it an MIT project,
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That the Altaeros project ever successfully operated at all. There is no evidence of anything but brief, momentary operation in light winds.
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That the reason for its ultimate demise was helium leakage. No it was just built too frail to even operate in anything but the lightest winds and sure, as it fell apart it undoubtefly could no longer hold helium.
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That Altaeros is now using its BATs to provide telecommunications services. There is no evidence that such ever happened. They were going to use standard blimps. Any idiot would knw that if blimps were better than towers for teleccumnucations they wooudl have already been in use 0 blimps are a well-known very old technology, not some new idea requiring MIT to comprehend. it was all lies to begin with.
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That 1.2 MegaWatts of turbines could weigh “less than one ton” because of carbon fiber. no, the generators alone would weigh orders of magnitude more than 1 ton.
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That a capacity factor of 25% means a turbine is making its rated power 25% of the time. no, it’s making a fraction of its rated power most of the time, adding up to 25% capacity factor. My turbine here on a 120-foot tower runs almost continuously, making its full output only when storms or very strong winds hit us. Its designed to spill excess power in high winds, like all turbines.
So this german Science person is just one more wind energy know-nothing, and not even a newbie, but just an uneducated bystander posturing as someone who knows anything at all about the subject matter. Almost every single thing he says is wrong.
I don’t want to waste any more if my time discussing such idiotic nonsense as this. if you do, have fun analyzing lies. 