It's interesting that India is a democracy and has managed to do this 5 years ahead of their goal. Their goal wasn't as aggressive as China's, but still.

It's a good sign because it proves that democracies can do this kind of thing. Of course for India it's been a massive benefit. Not just cleaner air, but lots of jobs in manufacturing and installation. It has helped develop their energy grid too, improving it and getting power to under-served areas. They have new micro and mini grids too.

It's a shame so many developed nations haven't taken this huge economic opportunity.

Probably the difficulty of connecting them to the grid. Most places there is paperwork to do, so they end up not being very temporary or agile.

It may be possible to improve the car parks with solar panels to use as shade, and the installation of some chargers.

But also multiple houses' worth of typical consumption. Could be useful for something like a festival where they would traditionally have diesel generators on-site.

They don't have DMCA like laws though. Reverse engineering and breaking copy protection is still legal in the UK, for example.

These are not for long term use, they are temporary installations, highly portable.

The output is max 30kW, with a 100kW version coming. Doubtless more expensive than solar and fixed wind turbines too, which is why their business model appears to be hiring them out for short term projects where significant amounts of power are needed in locations that are off-grid.

I agree, it looks somewhat marginal as a product. It's very hard to compete with solar power. They claim they will have a 100kW version soon, but even so... The portability and near zero set up time are probably the biggest selling points.

You don't think that farm land is at a premium?

I looked into it, and their design is clearly focused on a particular market: portable, tens of kilowatts scale generation. Because the system only has the footprint of a large trailer, it can be deployed more widely, or where land is at a premium. The example they give is farms that want to produce power but don't want to dedicate as much space as is required for solar panels in that power output range.

What they don't mention is how it compares to a fixed wind turbine, for customers like farmers who can install one.

Fortunately there are plenty of alternatives in more sensible legal jurisdictions.

The West should be providing them with help here. Instead of just trashing all the computers at the factory, they could have introduced subtle errors into the drone's flight control systems, damaged the batteries, made them randomly explode when turned on. More like what was done to Iran's centrifuges.

I think these are "prosumer" models. Not the real high end professional stuff, more aimed at amateurs and hobbyists who are willing to sink a lot of money into their hobby.

Thanks, I do enjoy Mentour Pilot.

Planes already have multiple accurate ways to determine altitude though. They knew long before they got GPS, and typically do not use GPS as their primary way of sensing their height about the Earth.

Even big industrial plant kills a lot of birds. Every big mining operation kills a lot of birds.

Also the plant itself isn't the only area that becomes difficult for wildlife to survive in. Due to security concerns a much wider area has to be made safe and defensible. Trees and other plants that can conceal people cleared out, for example.