Kites aren’t just for kids anymore. Just ask Makani Power, which is developing a smart energy kite that can generate up to 50 percent more electricity than a conventional wind turbine. The company has ...

Four hundred metres above us, the wind never stops, and almost nobody is using it. 🪁 In this video, we look at high-altitude ...

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 ...

A research team at the University of Madrid is intent on harnessing the wind with unconventional means: huge kites. Using the kites that one might otherwise associate with kitesurfing, the team is ...

Discover how airborne wind energy systems (AWES), like innovative kites, could transform global energy by generating power ...

Nearly a dozen companies are betting on computer-controlled, airborne wind energy to electrify the future Kurt Kleiner, Knowable Magazine Steered by a computer to loop in the wind, this kite converts ...

The ideas to harness wind energy from a kite, or other highflying tethered wind energy collectors are pretty numerous, however most are economically unsustainable even though beautiful, spirit lifting ...

The Isle of Lewis is the largest of the Scottish Outer Hebrides, sitting in the North Atlantic off the west coast of the Scottish mainland. It is the first landfall after thousands of miles of ocean ...