“Let’s go fly a kite” used to be a cheerful refrain from the end of Disney’s Mary Poppins. As it turns out, it could be a crucially important idea in the drive toward efficient use of renewable energy ...

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 ...

In parts of Scotland, one response to the need for renewable energy is to go fly a kite. No, really. In just under 10 years, kites will generate power for an entire region of Scotland, thanks to ...

Switzerland has bought us many things: the cuckoo clock, cheese with holes in it, and.. kite power? That’s the idea of a Swiss project that is trying to tap the energy of a regular wind that blows ...

A new kite-driven power station is being built near Stranraer in Scotland, and will be one of the first large-scale commercial power stations of its kind. Kite-driven power stations are a relatively ...

Geneva, Switzerland, is known for many things. It is the birthplace of the International Red Cross and the Geneva Conventions, and home to more than 270 nongovernmental organizations, and tens of ...

Switzerland has bought us many things: the cuckoo clock, cheese with holes in it, and.. kite power? That’s the idea of a Swiss project that is trying to tap the energy of a regular wind that blows ...

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 ...

Name a method of generating power that's cheap, efficient, sustainable and sounds like something Mary Poppins dreamed up after downing 20 teaspoons of sugar. That's right -- kite power. One of the ...

The United States recently passed an important landmark. In March, 10 percent of the nation's power came from renewable energy. Over the next few years, that number will only increase, but renewable ...

Sailing systems have been making a comeback in the past few years, and it looks like this is just the beginning. It sounds almost impossible to harness the power of wind in order to make modern-day ...

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 ...