Flying a kite to produce power may conjure up images of Ben Franklin, who sought to prove lightning was electric. Makani Power releases a turbine blade into the air, seeking to harness wind energy ...

One company’s self-flying energy kite may be the answer to increasing wind power around the world. California-based Makani – which is owned by Google’s parent company, Alphabet – is using ...

However, now, a Berlin-based company,NTS GmbH and the Fraunhofer Institute of Manufacturing Engineering and Automation (IPA), have set out to harness the ... idea is that the kite pulls vehicles ...

One day, generating renewable energy could be as simple as flying a kite — but not just any kite. After more than a decade of development work, an experimental “energy kite” capable of ...

A kite designed to harness wind power makes its maiden voyage during a test by the German startup NTS GmbH. Wind power could work almost anywhere if people turned to high-flying kites rather than ...

A research team at the University of Madrid are using the giant aerofoil kites used in kitesurfing to experiment with on-board energy generation, in the form of small wind-turbines mounted to the ...