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My guess is that I don’t have to remind you how much fossil fuels are polluting the air and how important is to develop new clean ways to harness energy. Now we have solar and wind energy, as well as wave and tidal power. Today we’re going to talk about a new way of harnessing wind power that was developed by the researchers from Delft University of Technology in Netherlands.
This technique is based on flying kites to get energy for your house. The scientists tied a 10 square-meter kite to a generator that produced 10 kilowatts which is enough to power about 10 houses. Now, they want to design a kite that could generate about 50 kilowatts and also, the want to build an 100 megawatt array which will power up to 100,000 houses.
The array will be called Laddermill and it will consist of kites tethered at 30,000 feet which will produce a total of 100 megawatts of power. Kites have the advantage of being cheaper than wind turbines and they don’t require much land use and adding the fact that high-altitude winds can generate more energy than on the ground then this technology looks very promising. Check out the video below of the kite test flight!
us lefties always get left out
Meanwhile we’ve had an energy source that produces 90,000,000,000,000 joules per kilo for 50 years now, but the environmentalists have had a successful disinformation and emotion campaign against it.
This stuff is just fluff.
What happens when the win dies down? How is the unidirectional pull on a kite string transformed into rotation to turn a generator? Is there a storage device involved - like a battery - making the energy available even when wind is not?
This video doesn’t explain exactly how the power is produced. They simply show them flying a kit.
Where are the blades? how is the power transmitted to the ground?
What exactly is the “invention” here?
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How does the kite actual transfer the energy into the generator? How does it transfer constant pull into a usable kinetic circular energy to turn it?
1kW is not nearly enough to power an average house. You’d need about 5-6kW.
For details completely missing from this report, see:
http://www.ockels.nl/
What energy source are you talking about?
[...] Giant Kites To Harness Wind Power Links — August 7, 2008 at 6:12 am [...]
U-235 fission.
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What I don’t get when people talk about the wonders of nuclear is why it’s seen as a renewable resource. Nothing against the tech as it’s used today, but there’s a finite amount of U-235 on the planet just like there’s a finite amount of oil.