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- Google is launching giant kites to harvest wind energy next month Sat, 21 Mar 15, 8:29amSpeaking at SXSW this week, Google X head Dr. Astro Teller announced that the tech giant's secretive branch will test a massive 84-foot flying wind turbine over northern California next month. The airborne turbines, which...
- Google is going to ‘go fly a kite’ to generate wind power next month Sat, 21 Mar 15, 2:00amSpeaking at SXSW this week, Google X head Dr. Astro Teller announced that the tech giant's secretive branch will test a massive 84-foot flying wind turbine over northern California next month. The airborne turbines, which...
- Google is going to ‘go fly a kite’ to generate wind power Sat, 21 Mar 15, 2:00amSpeaking at SXSW this week, Google X head Dr. Astro Teller announced that the tech giant's secretive branch will test a massive 84-foot flying wind turbine over northern California next month. The airborne turbines, which...
- PHOTOS: Ai Weiwei’s Amazing Chinese Dragon Flies Through the Air at Alcatraz Wed, 1 Oct 14, 7:27amAi Weiwei's With Wind installation greets visitors with a colorful explosion of paper forms that take flight within the former prison. The dragon is a symbol of power and freedom, however its paper construction is delicate....
- Ai Weiwei’s Amazing Chinese Dragon Flies Through the Air at Alcatraz Wed, 1 Oct 14, 7:27amAi Weiwei's With Wind installation greets visitors with a colorful explosion of paper forms that take flight within the former prison. The dragon is a symbol of power and freedom, however its paper construction is delicate....
- Ai Weiwei’s Spectacular Chinese Dragon Flies Through the Air at Alcatraz Wed, 1 Oct 14, 4:36amAi Weiwei's With Wind installation greets visitors with a colorful explosion of paper forms that take flight within the former prison. The dragon is a symbol of power and freedom, however its paper construction is delicate....
- Underwater Kites Could Harvest 64 Times More Power Than Undersea Turbines Fri, 8 Nov 13, 9:16amKite photo from Shutterstock How can we generate more power from renewable sources without using massive plots of land for solar and wind farms? Go fly a kite...
- Underwater Kites Could Harvest 64 Times More Power Than Wind Turbines Fri, 8 Nov 13, 5:42amKite photo from Shutterstock How can we generate more power from renewable sources without using massive plots of land for solar and wind farms? Go fly a kite...
- Giant Energy-Generating Kites Could Serve as an Alternative to Wind Turbines Thu, 11 Jul 13, 3:30amIn the Netherlands, scientists from the aerospace engineering department of the Technology University in Delft are testing the ability of giant kites to harvest energy from high speed, high altitude winds that wind turbines...
- Crowdsourced Project Uses Kites to Monitor Air Quality in Beijing Wed, 12 Jun 13, 12:32amBeijing has some of the worst air quality in the world; conditions were so bad earlier this year that levels soared beyond the range of the US embassy’s air quality index...
- Energy-Generating Kite Park Offers Extreme Green Parasailing Thu, 19 Aug 10, 3:30amColombian landscape architecture studio Paisajes Emergentes recently unveiled plans for an energy-generating kite farm on a public beach in Abu Dhabi. Tethered to flexible posts, 200 para-kites would use the innovative Windbelt...