If We Want Bigger Wind Turbines, We're Gonna Need Bigger Airplanes

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Kaibeezy · 45m ago

Were we not getting airships for this purpose? The ones with a butt?

A diagram comparing it to the 747s and oil tankers mentioned in the text would have been appreciated.

OK, looked it up. 108m v 72m. Kvikk diagram, pretty much to scale:

       ,    ||
   WR  ============
       ‘    ||

       ,  \\
   747 ========
       ‘  //

ricksunny · 16m ago

(what is a kvikk diagram - google isn’t helping here)

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If We Want Bigger Wind Turbines, We're Gonna Need Bigger Airplanes

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Analog computers were the original computers used to train neural networks (twitter.com)