EcoBusinessLinks » Airborne / Floating Wind Turbines

HighestWind

Ed — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 11:25:33 +0000

Small-scale, on-site distributed electricity generation to help power ranch, farm, winery, golf course, resort, rural school, business or factory, or entire developing world villages.

Airborne Wind Energy Industry Association

Ed — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 11:25:12 +0000

Industry Association

AWEIA is a global trade and professional body for the airborne wind energy industry.

Makani Power

Ed — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 11:23:54 +0000

Makani is developing high-altitude wind energy extraction technologies aimed at the most powerful wind resources.

Aeroix

Ed — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 11:23:36 +0000

Based on the comprehensive know-how from the project CyberKite and other projects in the field of applied aeronautics and wind energy, Aeroix initiated the development of a new generation of wind energy plants by use of EnerKites.

Twind

Ed — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 11:23:05 +0000

The method is based on the use of a sail surface elevated by the climbing force of an aerostatic balloon connected to the ground by a cable used also for energy transmission. The wind present at high altitudes creates a horizontal push on the sail which in its movement transmits this energy to the ground via the connecting cable.

Sky Windpower

Ed — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 11:22:32 +0000

Flying electric generators.

KiteGen

Ed — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 11:22:04 +0000

Semi-rigid automatically piloted high efficiency air foils.

Magenn

Ed — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 11:21:34 +0000

The Magenn Power Air Rotor System is a patented high altitude lighter-than-air tethered device that rotates about a horizontal axis in response to wind, efficiently generating clean renewable electrical energy at a lower cost than all competing systems.

Joby Energy

Ed — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 11:20:52 +0000

Joby Energy is developing airborne wind turbines which will operate in the upper boundary layer and the upper troposphere. Multi-wing flying structures which can support multiple wind turbines.

Ampyx Power

Ed — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 11:20:25 +0000

Ampyx is developing the PowerPlane, a machine that can extract energy from the wind much more economically than wind turbines. Ampyx has built a 10 kW PowerPlane which has been tested successfully.