Thanks NormsRevenge.
Popular Science publishes something about this or something very like it every few years, presumably when the (alleged) brains behind this operation starts making the rounds again. “Future airborne wind turbines could spin with greater gusto in the faster winds found at high altitudes, and send power back to Earth...”
Blimp Power
Alternative-energy firm starts testing its innovative airborne wind turbines
By Gregory Mone Posted 05.13.2008
http://www.popsci.com/environment/article/2008-05/blimp-power
In the late 70s Peabody Coal Co. had an idea to use a balloon to hold the electric cables going to the shovel. It did not last long, as the weather took it out. I expect the same to happen here.