No Result
View All Result
Wednesday, January 27, 2021
Chinese (Simplified)EnglishFrenchGermanItalianJapanesePortugueseRussianSpanish
  • |
  • Tech
  • Medicine
  • Society
  • Environment
  • Spazio
  • Transportation
  • Weather
  • concepts
  • H+
No Result
View All Result

Covid-19 Updates »

13 September 2020
in Energy

KiteKRAFT, flying wind turbine, a real wind kite

Chinese (Simplified)EnglishFrenchGermanItalianJapanesePortugueseRussianSpanish

Collaborate!

We are open to visions about the future. Submit an article, disclose the results of a search or scientific discoveries, shows points of view on a theme, tells about a change.

CONTACT US
KiteKRAFT, flying wind turbine, a real wind kite
Share4Pin4Tweet3SendShare1
tags: wind powerwind turbine

A German startup successfully completes the first tests of a flying wind turbine. KiteKRAFT is certain: with the wind kite more energy and less costs

Gianluca Ricciodi Gianluca Riccio
4 minutes of reading

The last

Kubota, glasses that eliminate myopia like a laser

Why Covid will not kill cities

Recycling, here are bottles and cardboard jars to “assemble” like IKEA furniture

Ovarian function recovered in infertile mammals without gonadotropins

The UK towards driverless car lanes

Read also:

Stop trees felled: MIT studies how to create wood in the laboratory

Stop trees felled: MIT studies how to create wood in the laboratory

Bill Gates and the Harvard Climate Project. Who said "Chemtrails"?

Bill Gates and the Harvard Climate Project. Who said "Chemtrails"?

Biocollar, the collar that lets you know the needs of your plants

Biocollar, the collar that lets you know the needs of your plants

The submarine of the future? It will swim like a robot squid

The submarine of the future? It will swim like a robot squid

Regenerating therapy, we are now one step away: there are just 5 years left.

Regenerating therapy, we are now one step away: there are just 5 years left.

Hi-tech capsules for homeless people: in Germany they test the Ulmer Nest

Hi-tech capsules for homeless people: in Germany they test the Ulmer Nest

Squall Tower, the turbine skyscraper that rotates with the wind

Squall Tower, the turbine skyscraper that rotates with the wind

person holding black iPhone displaying stock exchange

Some great wallets starting in 2020!

triggo electric quadricycle

Triggo EV, electric quadricycle that pulls on its wheels to park

Home hydrogen storage system: a little "wow!" and a little "ah."

Home hydrogen storage system: a little "wow!" and a little "ah."

A bacteria-based self-healing paste can regenerate historic buildings

A bacteria-based self-healing paste can regenerate historic buildings

woman holding two round gold-colored coins

Investing in Bitcoin - A Complete Guide to Teach Beginners!

A German startup is bringing the lightness of kites into green energy production with small flying wind turbines that use 10 times less material at half the cost of traditional options.

Last June, somewhat muted due to Covid, KiteKRAFT reached an important milestone with a prototype of a wind kite 2 meters wide. On the occasion, the flying wind turbine has its first flight in figure 8, the movement that will provide the system's wind power.

The wind kite is equipped with small rotating wind turbines on board, which essentially act like normal blade tips.

Maybe you are also interested

The wind is blowing in China: Ming Yang deploys the mega offshore 8MW turbine

The first offshore hybrid platform is born: energy from sun, wind and waves

Green energy will bring more rain to Africa

It is a wind record in Denmark: almost half of the energy comes from the wind

KiteKRAFT aircraft does not need towers made of hundreds of tons of concrete and steel or a foundation to keep the tips of the blades in the air, but uses intelligent algorithms to find the best position in mid-air.

The KiteKRAFT wind kite in its housing before taking off

A revolutionary device

Logistics, installation and inspections are much simpler and the kite can easily reach stronger winds at higher altitudes. "Cost savings of over 50% are possible compared to other sources", says the company on your blog.

Another advantage is that a kiteKRAFT system is hardly visible (no towers and no huge blades). This often raises public doubts about such structures in their landscape.

"We are proud to have reached this point in just over a year since the company was founded," says the co-founder and CTO Florian Bauer.

But the birds still take risks

There is something to perfect though: Bauer admits that their KiteKRAFT wind kite system is similar to large wind turbines in interfering with birds.

The KiteKRAFT founders in one of the very first tests

“That is why we will probably implement a protection system in the short term. The kite will automatically go into standby in the presence of a flock of birds, and will resume gathering energy after it passes. "

Where will the KiteKRAFT wind kite be useful?

KiteKRAFT's mission is to provide small energy grids, otherwise powered by diesel generators and / or solar energy.

Every kiteKRAFT system has quite a few sensors. The wind kite computer leverages algorithms and uses sensor data for autonomous flight and to efficiently generate wind power.

A computer with wings

KiteKRAFT system owners and inspection personnel can access the kite remotely with an app and view the current status or live video streaming from the onboard cameras.

The app will also allow certain commands, such as landing the kite for inspection.

At all times, the kite records important flight and performance data and sends it to the kiteKRAFT servers for analysis by the company's engineers, which improves future reliability.

Since the wind kite is essentially a "computer with wings", a flying wind turbine, its performance and reliability are likely to improve exponentially over the years and we can't wait to see how future versions improve handling of the wind. 'wind power.

Here is the video of the test flight:

Comment this post on all the social networks where Futuroprossimo.it is present ( Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Telegram, Linkedin, Vkontakte, Flipboard )

The future of:

Artificial intelligence

OncoHost, artificial intelligence that can “design” oncological therapies

transhumanism

Nectome wants to preserve (and digitize) your brain

Super Gadgets

CLIP, portable electric motor that turns every bike into an ebike

Design

Therapeutic tools like Balisa help patients see healing

Most read of the week

  • Australia, found the way to cure Crohn's disease

    Australia, found the way to cure Crohn's disease

    7387 shares
    Share 6170 Tweet 507
  • Squall Tower, the turbine skyscraper that rotates with the wind

    91 shares
    Share 36 Tweet 23
  • Triggo EV, electric quadricycle that pulls on its wheels to park

    86 shares
    Share 34 Tweet 22

The last

Next war after Covid: removing CO2 and saving the climate

Micromobility, Robotaxi, Smart City: 3 predictions for 2021

Covid variants: can they bypass vaccines? The first answers arrive

Fast battery charging at 100%, Storedot has one that takes 5 minutes

EpiVacCorona, the second Russian vaccine, claims 100% effectiveness

Next article
When the going gets tough there is Cluvens IW-SK, a science fiction gaming chair

When the going gets tough there is Cluvens IW-SK, a science fiction gaming chair

Futuroprossimo.it is an Italian resource of futurology opened since 2006: every day news about the near future. Scientific discoveries, medical research, prototypes, concepts and predictions about the future for free.

Tag

Environment Architecture Communication concepts Advice Energy Events Gadgets The future of yesterday The newspaper of tomorrow Medicine Military Weather Robotica Society Spazio Technology transhumanism Transportation Video

Categories

The author

Gianluca Riccio, copywriter and journalist - Born in 1975, he is the creative director of an advertising agency, he is affiliated with the Italian Institute for the Future, World Future Society and H +, Network of Italian Transhumanists.

Collaborate! Are you interested in writing a post on Futuroprossimo? Click here for contacts.

Home / Author / IDEA / archive / Promo on FP

© 2020 Futuroprossimo - Tailored by Be Here

© 2020 Futuroprossimo - Tailored by Be Here

  • Home
  • Contact us
  • archive
  • Technology
  • Medicine
  • Transportation
  • Weather
  • Society
  • Environment
  • transhumanism

© 2019 Futuroprossimo - Tailored by To be here

This site uses cookies. By continuing to read it, you consent to their use.