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Ireland Tries Kites Instead of Windmills To Generate Electricity
Longtime Slashdot reader piojo writes: Tired of windmills? Kitepower has deployed 60-square-meter kites to harvest wind energy on the western coast of Ireland. The giant kites fly in a figure-eight pattern, unspooling a tether to rotate a drum with 2.4 to 4 tons of force. When the tether has played out, the configuration of the kite is shifted to catch less wind and the tether is reeled back in. This mobile system fits in a 20-foot container and is targeted at remote locations.
Longtime Slashdot reader piojo writes: Tired of windmills? Kitepower has deployed 60-square-meter kites to harvest wind energy on the western coast of Ireland. The giant kites fly in a figure-eight pattern, unspooling a tether to rotate a drum with 2.4 to 4 tons of force. When the tether has played out, the configuration of the kite is shifted to catch less wind and the tether is reeled back in. This mobile system fits in a 20-foot container and is targeted at remote locations.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
