An American scientist believes he can generate electricity equivalent to tens oo nuclear power station - with massive underwater kites. David Olinger of Worcester Polytechnic Institute has just been ...

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 ...

High-flying kites tethered to generators could supply as much as 100 megawatts of electricity, enough to power 100,000 homes, according to researchers from the Delft University of Technology in The ...

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 ...

Any kid who’s ever flown a kite has learned the lesson: Once you can get the kite off the ground and high into the air, you’re more likely to find a steady breeze to keep it aloft. A fledgling wind ...

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 ...