Energy Generating Kite

What if you could literally pull energy out of the sky? Several kite power companies are attempting to do just that, and they are succeeding.

The new technology, they say, comes with many advantages.

“It’s cheaper to manufacture, cheaper to transport, and also has higher efficiency,” tells Ars Technica Florian Bauer, co-CEO and chief technology officer of Kitekraft, a Munich-based company developing a kite power system. The carbon footprint is also much smaller, he says. “If you have all those advantages, why would anyone build a conventional wind turbine?”