Syracuse, N.Y.—Patrick Coyne of Westvale teaches kiting, but not the kind where you hold a roll of twine while a colorful diamond shape floats on the end of it. Coyne teaches power kiting, which ...

Brian Williamson said he remembers flying kites when he was young with a friend from his neighborhood in Perryville, a small hamlet in Madison County. “They were the regular, small, diamond-shaped ...

Kites are no longer just for leisurely days at the beach. A promising enviro-enterprise to watch, KiteShip is a wind-power-tech company proposing the use of massive sea kites to reduce the amount of ...

Nearly a dozen companies are betting on computer-controlled, airborne wind energy to electrify the future Kurt Kleiner, Knowable Magazine Steered by a computer to loop in the wind, this kite converts ...

The University of Delft has a program devoted to kite-based generation systems, with 20 years of research and development under their belt since Wubbo Ockels, the first Dutch astronaut, established it ...

The ideas to harness wind energy from a kite, or other highflying tethered wind energy collectors are pretty numerous, however most are economically unsustainable even though beautiful, spirit lifting ...