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

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• p1mrx 6 minutes ago
  Sadly, an LLM rejected my idea of building an enormous helicopter drone from wind turbine blades. They can't spin fast enough to generate sufficient lift.
• Kaibeezy 1 hour 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:

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     WR  ============
         ‘    ||
  
         ,  \\
     747 ========
         ‘  //

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  • ricksunny 38 minutes ago
    (what is a kvikk diagram - google isn’t helping here)
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    • skyyler 0 minutes ago
      wild guess: a distorted "quick"