Sometimes all that needs to change is market demand. Cargolifter was a solution looking for a problem. "It might be useful for disaster relief?" even more so, b

Sometimes all that needs to change is market demand. Cargolifter was a solution looking for a problem. "It might be useful for disaster relief?" even more so, but given Brin-grade money, solutions looking for a problem are certainly better than yet another yacht. But I wonder if Cargolifter would still be such a dud in today's market? Just look at the crazy lengths companies go through to put the largest possible wind turbines in remote locations. Seriously, if you've never done so (or if it's been a few years), enter "turbine blade transportation" in the image search of your choice and be awed. I can't imagine Cargolifter not having a waiting list measured in decades given the pains ground based blade transportation goes through, and those things aren't even that heavy. Currently, inland wind turbine size is clearly limited by transportation, not by materials or engineering. (and larger turbines are actually less annoying than smaller ones, because rpm go down with size due to blade tips approaching transonic speeds at any non-trivial size)