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Irregular bearing loads can be largely relieved using permanent magnet levitating bearings to basically completely relieve the weight off of the mechanical bearings.
Also keep in mind that Harmony Turbines catch wind equally from any direction, without having to regularly adjust and turn for changing wind directions.
I've also noticed a bit of a flaw in the Harmony prototypes, they're making their own generator mechanism and winding their own coils, around solid steel cores rather than the known more efficient design using many stacked discs as the electromagnetic windings used in everyday generators, alternators and motors.
Yes sure there's room for improvements, their project is fairly new, but I still see more strength in numbers rather than ridiculous large size.
Like, how much fuel goes into an airplane the size of a football field again? How is such a large plane helping the green cause at all?