We've already heard about renewable energy systems that use aerial kites to generate electricity via the wind. Well, the Manta system is kind of similar, although it uses an underwater kite that ...

“Our goal was to verify the functionality of the prototype,” Meier-Staude stated. “The location near Landshut was ideal for the functional test: the canal’s current flows at a constant 0.6 meters per ...

Founded by researchers at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft, Netherlands), startup company Kitepower is working toward development and deployment of a kite-based, airborne wind energy (AWE) ...

Stationary systems—such as fixed-bottom tidal turbines—could theoretically operate in low-flow conditions too, but they would ...

Any kid who’s ever flown a kite has learned the lesson: Once you can get the kite off the ground and high into the air, you’re more likely to find a steady breeze to keep it aloft. A fledgling wind ...

Seawing made headlines a few years back as the first and only automated kite sailing system in the world. Developed by the French startup Airseas, it proposed a unique mechanism for harnessing the ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Why? This kite system harnesses the winds energy with a tethered wing that flies at high altitudes where the wind is both strong and more ...

At first view, marine energy developer Minesto’s novel underwater “kite” technology may be easily dismissed as a fanciful concept, one of dozens introduced over the last decade to reap the immense ...

Several maritime companies are harnessing the power of the wind to develop innovative ways of saving fuel and lowering emissions levels. Seawing is different from all others as the only automated kite ...

Oil giant Shell has teamed up with Google to commercialize the potentially disruptive technology of high altitude wind energy systems (HAWEs). For around 5 years, Google has supported an energy kite ...

Alphabet is turning yet another one of its X projects into a business, but this time it's enlisting the help of an unusual ally. Makani Power, a venture making electricity-generating kites (see above) ...