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China lets fly world's largest kite in Inner Mongolia for electric power generation (www.bangkokpost.com)
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China has successfully deployed the world's largest power-generating kite, capable of harnessing the potential of energy-dense, high-altitude winds to provide cheaper power than traditional surface turbines

The 5,000 square-metre high-altitude wind power capture kite was unfurled at a test site at Alxa Left Banner in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region on Wednesday, according to state broadcaster CCTV.

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[–] pageflight@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

Similar kite systems are being developed elsewhere in the world, including by the Dutch start-up Kitepower, whose kites are flown in continuous cycles of figure-eight patterns to produce energy at the ground station to which they are tethered.

https://thekitepower.com/the-hawk/