On: Makani’s time as an “other bet” comes to an end

[sunstone]

Plan B could be large vertical shafts drilled into tall mountains. Let the high altitude winds create the venturi effect (low pressure) to suck air up the shaft and have turbines in the shaft to generate electric power. Similar to hydro power the construction costs are significant but after that it's almost trouble free energy.

[mike_d → sunstone]

Large scale drilling operations at altitude are not even remotely economically viable. Not to mention we can hardly build telescopes on mountains, let alone power stations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty_Meter_Telescope_protest...