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This is not correct. Untrained people can't be inside the flight zone while operating. This is roughly the downwind quarter of the potential flight zone.


Even a quarter is a huge area. Using the "safety buffer" radius of 425m, that is 560k m2 or 140 acres. A quarter of that is 35 acres, for 30 kW.

For regular wind turbines, it's 30-70 acres per MW generated. That is 20x-40x more power for the same land area. And almost all the land under a wind turbine is freely usable.


> Untrained people can't be inside the flight zone

What kind of training makes you immune to being sliced in half by a tether?


The same kind that makes you immune to crashing a car, none. However the training presumably could help you asses and mitigate risks better than someone with no training.




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