[fraggle222]

Lol, these things are big !!! I had the scale all wrong. When I saw the pictures and video I thought this plane was something one or 2 people could hold (6-12 ft wing span). Then I saw people talking about 600kW and I was like, no freaking way can you get that much power from a plane that size.

Then I saw this: https://makanipower.com/makani/images/pages/technology/cta.j...

[imtringued]

Compared to a single blade of a wind turbine it looks like a toy.

[woodandsteel]

True, but they fly up where the wind is a lot stronger. Plus being much smaller means they might be cranked out in large numbers by a factory, which would make them relatively inexpensive, and also they don't have the major shipping problems that onshore turbines have.