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Kites Harnessing Wind Power
NETHERLANDS - A team of researchers at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands have used kites to create 10 kW of energy—enough to power 10 homes.The researchers plan to build a larger version of the project called "Laddermill" that would create 50 kW of energy.
They eventually want to build a 100 MW version of their project. If successful, the expanded project would create enough power for 100,000 homes.
Accordign to a report on Clean Technica, the kites are attached to a generator by a string. Power is created when the string is pulled and the generator turns as winds lift it into the sky.
Laddermill project leader Wubbo Ockels said kites are a cheap way to use energy higher up in the air, where winds carry more power due to high speeds (7 meters/sec). In contrast, turbines harvest energy closer to the ground, where wind speed is slower (5 meters/sec).
Ockels predicts that the technology might not be brought to the market for a long time unless a large amount of money is made available.
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