{"id":612,"date":"2009-10-23T11:17:44","date_gmt":"2009-10-23T11:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notechmagazine.com\/2009\/10\/kite-power.html"},"modified":"2009-10-23T11:17:44","modified_gmt":"2009-10-23T11:17:44","slug":"kite-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/2009\/10\/kite-power.html","title":{"rendered":"Kite Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"display: inline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kitegen.com\/en\/\"><img  class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a00e0099229e888330120a61201eb970b image-full \" alt=\"Kitegen 1\" title=\"Kitegen 1\" src=\"http:\/\/krisdedecker.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00e0099229e888330120a61201eb970b-800wi\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Italian company <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kitegen.com\/en\/\">Kite Gen<\/a> is building a full-scale 3 megawatt version (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kitegen.com\/en\/products\/stem\/\">video<\/a>) of its promising wind turbine concept, we learn from <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.metaefficient.com\/renewable-power\/kite-gen-future-wind-power.html\">MetaEfficient<\/a>. A large kite is drawn upward to altitudes around 800 metres, where average wind speeds are four times as strong as they are near ground-based wind turbines. The kites power turbines by rising and flying back to gound level continuously. The retrieval phase is said to require a small fraction of the power that is generated during the flight. A first prototype was built in 2006. One of the recent improvements is an automatic launching system, powered by fans. The technology generated an interesting <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/europe.theoildrum.com\/node\/5554\">discussion<\/a> at the Oil Drum last summer. Previously: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lowtechmagazine.com\/2007\/11\/floating-windmi.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Floating windmills &#8211; energy from the clouds<\/a>. Related: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/2009\/04\/kiteboating.html\">Kiteboating<\/a> &amp; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/2009\/03\/kite-aerial-photography.html\">Kite Aerial Photography<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Italian company Kite Gen is building a full-scale 3 megawatt version (video) of its promising wind turbine concept, we learn from MetaEfficient. A large kite is drawn upward to altitudes around 800 metres, where average wind speeds are four times as strong as they are near ground-based wind turbines. The kites power turbines by rising [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30,102,181],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}