Comments on: High-Flying Kites Could Produce Enough Energy for a City http://earthfirst.com/high-flying-kites-could-produce-enough-energy-for-a-city/ A Sharp Eye -- With a Green Edge Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:33:14 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Stephanie Rogers http://earthfirst.com/high-flying-kites-could-produce-enough-energy-for-a-city/comment-page-1/#comment-2320 Stephanie Rogers Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:04:54 +0000 http://earthfirst.com/?p=1882#comment-2320 Hey Peter! The site for the invention mentions that the kites would be 'inflatable', so I'm assuming that means they'd be kept up off the ground even when it's not windy: http://www.lr.tudelft.nl/live/pagina.jsp?id=8d16d19a-e942-45aa-9b52-48deb9312e92&lang=en Hey Peter! The site for the invention mentions that the kites would be ‘inflatable’, so I’m assuming that means they’d be kept up off the ground even when it’s not windy: http://www.lr.tudelft.nl/live/pagina.jsp?id=8d16d19a-e942-45aa-9b52-48deb9312e92&lang=en

]]> By: Peter Martin http://earthfirst.com/high-flying-kites-could-produce-enough-energy-for-a-city/comment-page-1/#comment-2318 Peter Martin Mon, 11 Aug 2008 06:16:35 +0000 http://earthfirst.com/?p=1882#comment-2318 What's not to like? However, I have to wonder about the reliability factors. Like Charlie Brown, my efforts at getting a kite up, staying up and back down (if it got too gusty) have never been that successful. And certain involved a lot of kidpower on the ground. So if (as it surely might) the wind drops, what is the proposed procedure to get the generating mechanism back up again? What’s not to like?

However, I have to wonder about the reliability factors.

Like Charlie Brown, my efforts at getting a kite up, staying up and back down (if it got too gusty) have never been that successful. And certain involved a lot of kidpower on the ground.

So if (as it surely might) the wind drops, what is the proposed procedure to get the generating mechanism back up again?

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