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Build a ridge a few hundred metres tall and hundreds or thousands of kilometres long, at an angle to the prevailing winds. This creates an updraught, allowing gliders to travel the length of the ridge. Possible site: Australia, Adelaide to Darwin.
Glider_20transport_20system
[spidermother, Feb 01 2006]
Glamis
http://www.letsatv..../thats%20glamis.jpg
[normzone, Feb 17 2006]
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I love this... just because. |
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I was giving a hitchhiker from back east a ride from Arizona to California, and we passed through the dirt-toy-ridden sand dunes of Glamis. |
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He asked me it was natural or if we'd built it. I guess there's not a lot of deserts back east [see link]. |
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Hang gliding parks:
Have the high hung curtain perpendicular to the prevailing winds; anchor the base of the curtain.
Say 300 yards from left to right; slope soar back and forth. |
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There are two ridges: one inner, one outer. The other is transparent. The inner is entirely faced with photovoltaics. The gap at the top of the ridge is entirely fenced with Darrieus wind turbines running on a horizontal axis. Net result: virtually free air transport, lots and lots of electric power. More power than you need? No sweat: use the electricity to run enormous high-speed winches for sailplane launches. |
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Does anyone know what the glide ratio on the old Wacos was? Or God forbid, the Messerschmitt Me 321? |
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