Makani's flying windmills win Breakthrough award
Saturday, October 8, 2011 - 04:30
in Physics & Chemistry
(PhysOrg.com) -- Makani Power, of Alameda, California, creators of the high-altitude wind turbine, is one of this years winners of the Popular Mechanics seventh annual Breakthrough Awards. Naming Makani team members Corwin Hardham, Kenny Jensen, and Damon Vander Lind, the award honors these creators of a sleek, 20-kilowatt Wing 7 prototype that is equal parts airplane, helicopter and robot.