"Good news everyone, I've generated enough wind energy for no human to ever go cold anymore! That's not how we're going to use it, of course but it's enough to do that!"

[–] roguetrick@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It's funny for me that this sort of application is largely rooted in fossil fuel extraction to work (though I don't write it off because of that). Helium is trapped in the same geological formations that trap fossil fuels so you generally extract them together. Hydrogen similarly is currently made from fossil fuels if you wanted to instead use that. Doesn't mean I think hydrogen based balloons from electrolysis is nonsense or that it's a bad use, but it is funnily ironic tech.

[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

As Alec of Technology Connections said in a recent video, if we extract fossils, it's better to make something from them that will work for a while instead of burning them.

[–] roguetrick@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Wouldn't include any dirigibles in the "work for awhile" category. Gotta figure out an economy for that that isn't cheap helium. It's there, of course, but it looks different than what we currently do.

[–] S_H_K@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'm having a deja vu or I saw this like on 2015 or something?

[–] morgenman@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

Probably thinking of Big Hero 6?

[–] ghost9@piefed.social 0 points 4 days ago

This looks like something Bezos would ride into space.