The Wind Runner will be the world’s largest aircraft, dedicated to transporting wind turbine blades. At almost 110 meters, it will be longer than a standard football field. And its internal capacity will be around that of twelve Boeing 747s.
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Lol wing power is highly efficient and the blades are often just buried and even if recycled produces a lot of toxins, especially with plastics, amd your will use fuel for the recycling most likely. I think water turbines would probably be better and more convenient because there isn't always wind. There was a young scientist that figured out how to make solar panels out of human hair which would be an interesting video
Australia is limiting wind turbines due to the cost of running transmission lines to where the turbines will be allowed to be built. Which is not near the population.
And they kill more birds.
We need bigger planes to fight climate change, and more of them.
Indeed. 👍
Would 't the energy over a year be in watt-hours?
Or just do more nuclear power.
Another example of destroying the environment for the sake of the environment. Put simply how much CO2 goes into making the blades in the first place and then how much CO2 is produced to transport them in these fossil fuel aircraft.
I wouldn't worry, about making them more bigger for efficiency. How about, making them more reliable before worrying about going bigger.
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The idea looks great but if the only purpose is to airlift wind turbine blades to designated sites then it is a project that will miss the boat. Although initially built for the scrapped Buran Shuttle Project, the destroyed An 225 became a specialized carrier for bulk cargo that required urgent delivery.
This sounds like real wishful thinking. You're not going to have a long enough landing strip next to every site. If you do imagine the CO2 it would take to build a 1 time use runway
there are helicopters that can do this which were designed a generation ago and there are probably working ones still around
the soviets designed them for bringing missiles and construction equipment to hidden missile sites because pre satelites the only way to find these would be by having a spyplane tracking roads and railroads , but with the arrival of spy satelites it didn't really matter anymore,
Former Boeing… a purpose built aircraft can work if there are places big enough for it to take off and land. Also, blades would need to be transported from landing strips to building sites. Special haul trucks are used now. Sites on water use barges with large cranes to move blades and hoist into place. It will be interesting to see what develops.
And… it's to small because wind turbines kept getting larger.