Age a usual wind turbine is up to 200 metres tall, a kite can trouble meaningfully elder currents. "We compete concerning 100 and 300 metres but kites can in fact fly meaningfully elder. So far, the balanced correspond is 9,740 metres," says Schmehl.
Kite wind generation overcomes the doubt of sporadic power, typical of inflexible wind technologies, for one unsophisticated reason: the elder you go, the senior repetitively the wind blows. Airborne wind turbines contribute a senior hard energy spate, and they are meaningfully cheaper as they need under definite than a wind turbine. To a certain extent of a steel mound, you stock a system that looks and bury feel affection for a yo-yo.
"You stock a announce going dressed in the sky among a in the air harvesting sketch. Our development has particular on kite power, and outstandingly the pumping kite power system. We use the foothold power of a kite tour to scratch a announce from a tub that drives a generator on the home.
While the announce has deeply unwound it requirements to be reeled in over, which requires a conclusive integer of energy. "You stock to piece the pumping rotund so as to stock a foothold and a retraction phase," says Schmehl. He and his body came up among a unmovable to minimise energy losses. "We revolve the kite dressed in the wind as we scratch it back, so all in all the blustery weather does cubicle of the industry for us. This way, we need under energy to rotate in the announce."
