If we told you that a free-flying kite could provide enough energy to power your house, you might consider us crazy. How about all the homes on your block, or even an entire city? Scientists at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands recently tested just such a technology, tethering a 10 square meter kite to a generator to produce 10 kilowatts of power (enough energy for 10 homes). They are currently planning to scale the experiment with a 50 kilowatt kite and a 100 megawatt array called the Laddermill that could potentially power 100,000 homes!What an amzingly simple concept to generate electricity with almost no environmental impact. What will tree huggers complain about? It will probably be concern for the flight paths of rare migratory birds or some crap like that. Others will complain about their view being "ruined" by kites....
All kidding aside, this technology is one worth watching as it develops!
Kite Power Could Generate Energy for 100,000 Homes
2 comments:
Pretty crazy to watch Mccain talk about drilling when you could do this for a lot less money. Obama should talk about this and then he could use "Tell Mccain to go Fly a Kite!" as a slogan!
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Pretty crazy to watch Mccain talk about drilling when you could do this for a lot less money. Obama should talk about this and then he could use "Tell Mccain to go Fly a Kite!" as a slogan!
Great point...I'd love to see it happen!
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