Flattening landscapes, destroying vegetation and building massive dirt runways to land this monstrosity? Burning massive amounts of jet fuel to transport 1 or 2 blades at a time? Very renewable indeed.

This idea is stupid on so many levels, like Solar Freaking Roadways. I’m excited to see how many people will immediately jump onboard with this lunacy.

And for fuck’s sakes, have they never heard of blimps? There are already companies trying to use them for transporting oversized cargo like this that have been running for decades. Advantages over this: They don’t need runways and can access more remote areas directly. They can act as sky-cranes, hovering in place to facilitate the assembly of these megastructures if needed. If this was as desperate a need as they’re trying to imply that it is, they would already be trying to use them to transport and assemble huge blades at scale. The reality is, this is just not necessary.

Because onshore wind turbines are already perfectly efficient and productive at the sizes we already make them at. We don’t need some mega-monster-turbines to move forward, we just need lots more of the current ones, thanks.