I hardly pushed the envelope, just re-learned a ton of stuff that is common knowledge in the industry. Compare it to creating a cpu on a breadboard in terms of computing. A 5m diameter turbine is a toy compared to these monsters.<p>It&#x27;s a pity I never got to the next step, we had the generator already done (2.5 KW for the 5 meter machine, 10KW for a 10 meter machine).<p>You&#x27;re spot on about the tower mass and turning it all into a single tensile component. But you&#x27;re going to have to account for the mechanism on the ground still being anchored to withstand those forces and any multiples of those forces during sudden gusts. Wind is fickle that way. Another thing I have not yet seen addressed (maybe the knowledge is out there, I just have not seen it) how they plan on doing this in a &#x27;farm&#x27; setup, it&#x27;s one thing to have a bunch of stationary machines at regular spacing interacting with each other, quite a different one when you&#x27;re going to have all kinds of 3D stacking options and interference between machines (and cabling) when the wind turns. Those are complex problems.