Straw man? Dead horse?
We're [all] the victims of [someone's] limited thinking. For example, this notion of building windmills outdoors. It's getting out of hand, mega-towers anchored offshore.
Compare the indoor windmill that Buckminster Fuller alluded to. Elon Musk said "I don't have time to build an Hyperloop" and businesses sprang into being as a result.
Imagine that a project like
Bucky's Old Man River project for St. Louis were built. The power harvestable at the summit would power the whole town. And that's scalable.
Quoting Critical Path:
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It is moon-crater-shaped: the crater's truncated cone top opening is a half-mile in diameter, rim-to-rim, while the truncated mountain itself is a mile in diameter at its base ring. The city has a one-mile (1.6 km)-diameter geodesic, quarter-sphere transparent umbrella mounted high above it to permit full, all-around viewing below the umbrella's bottom perimeter. The top of the dome roof is 1,000 feet (300 m) high. The bottom rim of the umbrella dome is 500 feet (150 m) above the surrounding terrain, while the crater-top esplanade, looks 250 feet (76 m) radially inward from the umbrella's bottom, is at the same 500-foot (150 m) height. From the esplanade the truncated mountain cone slopes downwardly, inward and outward, to ground level 500 feet (150 m) below. The moon crater's inward and outward, exterior-surface slopes each consist of fifty terraces - the terrace floors are tiered vertically ten feet above or below one another. All the inwardly, downwardly sloping sides of the moon crater's terraced cone are used for communal life; its outward-sloping, tree-planted terraces are entirely for private life dwelling.
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