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'Windmill': China tests world’s first megawatt-level airship to capture high winds
(interestingengineering.com)
this post was submitted on 25 Sep 2025
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Edit: I was trying to get more information from other articles and got the S1000 (100kW) mixed up with the S1500 (1000kW)
~~They're trying to get it to100kW. That's like a pretty big generator but not a huge one. So this isn't a replacement for wind farms just yet. The picture is from a year ago~~. No mention of costs.
Would it be possible to use heat to get it to float, instead of helium? Heat it up with electricity.
The article says:
That suggests to me (admittedly a layman) that each blimp is more like 1.2MW?
Sorry about that, I got all excited at just a tenth of what they are trying to achieve. Oops
It's all good mate, we've all got over excited at times.