China has achieved a major engineering breakthrough in high-altitude wind power, with the domestically developed S4000 airborne wind power system recently completing a full-process flight test at a test base in northwest China.The successful test marks
  • PeeOnYou [he/him]@lemmygrad.ml
    10·
    21 days ago

    the article is light (ha) on details, but im curious if this goes up with some batteries it directly charges or can it also be tethered to a ground station and pump power to the grid?

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.mlOP
      7·
      20 days ago

      I suspect regular guns are still likely more effective. Problem with lasers is that they need heavy batteries, and need to keep on target for a while to actually do damage. They also don’t work well in rain, fog, or any other bad weather. What we’ll likely see is just guns with AI system targeting them.