SecondWind
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An Arc that generates electricity
A 10m Venom that provides some real power 
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/video/2008/aug/01/elec...
Foil Kites: Flysurfer 12m Sonic 4, 10m Soul V2, Peak 5s and 5.5m Hybrid
LEIs: 9m Naish Pivot, 12m Naish Phoenix
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PHREERIDER
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Mood: chilled....but ready to SAIL!
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acampbell
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Venorator?
Funny, they never described how the mechanical energy of the kite is converted to electricity.
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BeamerBob
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Yeah, I'm more interested in the how than the what if. I saw something in the past that had kites with long lines attached to a wheel around its
circumference. The kites were electronically controlled to power up at the point where their power will advance the wheel throuigh part of a rotation
and then when that kite bottoms out its stroke, it goes into a non-power phase for the other kites to pull it back around. The prototype worked but
I'm not sure what stage the development is in. I'm sure I got the link from here on PKF.
Edit and temporary hijack: You two are too much with the nicknames. Can you guys come up with something equally snappy to identify our little
Carolina/Georgia group? I try but strike out with every idea.
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flexiblade
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There is a company here in California, MAKANI POWER, out in Alameda that is doing research on just this type of technology with money from Google.
Pete Lynn (not the sr.) works there.
we all believe is called the expansion
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Bladerunner
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I just want the REMOTE.
Then I could be sitting here at work flying a Venom instead of surfing the interweb. 
Kites: 2.5m Profoil , Quadrifoil XL kitesurfer, NPW 5 Danger.
Flexifoil: 1.7m Sting, 4.9m Blade 3, 9m Blade 2.
Flysurfer : 19m Speed 2 SA, 7m Pulse
Peter Lynn :18m Phantom, 15m Synergy, 10m Synergy, 1200 Farc, 460 Sarc, 130 Tarc, 5m Peel, 4.2m , 6.4, 8.5 C-Quads, 3.5 LS2 single skin.
Rides: Flexi / P.L. Frankin'Buggy , Shaped + straight skiis, sand skis, Coyote blades. Core 95 ATB. RKB R2 ATB .
Ken (K2)
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kiteNH
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piku303
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i see the hardest part of figuring out this technology is kite control...humans are much better at flying power kites than machines. the wind throws a
lot of variables at you. also a difficulty is that a guy would have to go out and change the kites out if there were highwinds to a smaller kite or
larger and so on. it would be a full time job for workeres managing those fields but i love the idea.
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