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Note that when the airship drops a heavy load, it might shoot into the stratosphere unless an action is taken due to suddenly having so much lift. So either yo

Note that when the airship drops a heavy load, it might shoot into the stratosphere unless an action is taken due to suddenly having so much lift. So either you have to vent potentially expensive lifting gas - or get some replacement load, such as water or even a load of rocks. Not an impossible to solve but some site preparation is needed.

usrusr 4y ago
But it's much easier to truck in a few dozen tons of ballast than to truck in, say, a 400 ft rotor blade. Transport is seriously limiting wind power, not just because larger gets better wind but also because larger would actually get less nimby, not more: rpm scales inversely with size, and rpm is what draws our attention to where we don't want it.