Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Kite Power

Flying kites are a metaphor for soaring ambition, while a "kati patang" connotes aimlessness, dejection, and defeat. [Remember that song by Lata from Rajesh Khanna classic--"na koi umang hai..."] In many cultures around the world kite-flying is a favorite pastime for growing boys; and on special days/festivals the young and the not-so-young get together to indulge in this sport. The sight of colorful kites silhouetted against the sky makes me feel as if I'm in a garden filled with fluttering butterflies.

So much so for the poetry. Scientists in Italy are using kites to harness wind-power for generating electricity. Despite its appearance, the Kite Wind Generator, or KiteGen for short, could produce as much energy as a nuclear power plant! Unbelievable, but conceptually true. Read on: Generating Power From Kites

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

thanks heaps for thist post! extremely relevant to our study on the danish cluster on windpower...given the economics of this technology..are we talking about a disruption to the evolving wind cluster? renewables are definitely th way to go given the growing dearth of other sources of energy..anyways..any amount of discussion on all this is only going to be nullified by some other disruption somewhere!

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