Saturday, May 25, 2013

Google invests in wind flying - Computer Sweden

Google recently bought company Makani Power, which worked to launch a kind of flying wind turbines. The links to Google has been around since the company was formed seven years ago, when Makani Power received an investment by Google through a program with the aim to support future energy sources.

Class=”paragraphIntro”> Makani Power states to their technique can produce significantly more energy than traditional wind turbines, thanks to its airborne construction. It is similar in appearance on a slider, but appears rather as a helicopter during takeoff and landing. Once in the air so it generates electricity using turbines mounted on its wings, and flies in a circular orbit between 250 and 600 meters above the ground. The advantages of technology is that it can be used in places that are inappropriate to build wind turbines, which over deep water or at high altitudes. According to the creators so it is also more efficient than traditional wind turbines even in biting wind.

company’s engineers move now into the secretive research facility Google X, which is headed by a Google’s founders, Sergey Brin. Examples of other projects that sprung from the plant is the futuristic glasses Google Ice C ream and Google unmanned car.

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