Industrial-Strength Kites Could Pull Floating Power Plants

Industrial-Strength Kites Could Pull Floating Power Plants

Take a huge oceanic catamaran, stick a hydroelectric turbine underneath it, and hitch it to a 6.5 million-square-foot parafoil flying nearly a mile in the air. That's a Korean research team's new proposal for generating gigawatts of clean energy.

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