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Wind power station in the sky: How Google will generat clean energy with high-tech kite
Author: Kim Rixecker
Contact:Date:18/03/2015, 10:53 am Clock
Google X works with Makani on a very unusual wind energy solution: this highly modern kite will be significantly more effective than existing wind power plants.
Google X, the research arm of the search giant from Mountain View
Today's wind turbines are not nearly efficient enough. Google's solution: wind turbines mounted on aircraft, which are similar to a glider on a cable connected to a ground station and float in circlular motions in the sky. The installed propeller bring the aircraft into the air and are then used to produce wind energy.
The project is called Makani which means wind in Hawaiian. The idea goes back to an eponymous startup that Google acquired in 2013 and transferred to the Google X project. Makani is to be used especially in areas where wind energy was not a sensible option so far. According to Google, conventional wind power plants can be put to good use in only 15 percent of the world's land mass. Since the Google dragon can reach a greater height to Makani can be put to good use in many more areas.
http://t3n.de/news/google-makani-windenergie-600487/
