A new kite carousel system has emerged from Italian engineers. The system can easily outperform an entire wind farm and could ...

Kitegen received about 15 million euro in funding and it looks like they will have a 3 megawatt stem built in 2010. How large is a Kite Gen power plant? It depends of the configuration. A wind farm of ...

DIRKSLAND - Kitepower Testdag. KitePower team making a testrun in the patatofield. - FOTO GUUS SCHOONEWILLE If you had to read that headline twice, let me assure you: I had to read Kitepower’s website ...

Looking at a wind turbine from first principles, it’s essentially a set of wings that generate lift in much the same way an airplane wing does. Putting the wings on a rotor and calling them “blades” ...

China has quietly turned a childhood toy into a piece of heavy infrastructure, unveiling a giant power-generating kite that behaves more like an airborne power station than a beach plaything. The ...

Well I did’nt see this coming. Using lots of UA tech Google invests in yet more cutting edge stuff (ed) Google has acquired a US company that generates power using turbines mounted on tethered kites ...

A traditional childhood pastime could provide a breakthrough in renewable energy, after successful experiments in flying a giant kite at one of Europe's top research centres. Scientists from Delft ...