Kite Energy - Leveraging The Jet Stream For Renewable Power

There’s a band of people in the northwest hills of Italy who are fishing for the big one in the sky.They’re not a religious sect trawling for a deity. They’re part of a Turin-based startup called Kite Gen Research and, as their name implies, they want to generate electricity by flying kites — really big kites, really high.The basic idea is simple: Unreel a huge piece of fabric into mile high winds that will haul the thing along at expressway speed. Tether the fast spinning string to earthbound alternators and crank out megawatts of power. read more

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