Audacious kite powered electricity generation
April 2nd, 2009
Thanks to whoever alerted me to this great, short TED video. The goal is to harness wind power at 1,000 – 15,000m in the troposhere (much above where wind turbines currently operate). Which reminds me, I must dig out the flexifoil now the evenings are brighter…
Saul Griffith: Inventing a super-kite to tap the energy of high-altitude wind
Bizarrely enough I think this featured on one of James May’s TV programs – something about future technology solving global warming