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creators_name: Fagiano, Lorenzo
creators_name: Milanese, Mario
creators_name: Piga, Dario
creators_id: 
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creators_id: dario.piga@imtlucca.it
title: Kitenergy: a radical innovation in wind energy generation
ispublished: pub
subjects: QA75
subjects: T1
divisions: CSA
full_text_status: none
keywords: Innovative wind energy concepts; High-altitude wind energy
note: CTSI clean technology and sustainable industries conference and expo held in Anaheim (USA), June 21-24, 2010 
abstract: This paper presents an innovative technology of high-altitude wind power generation, indicated as Kitenergy, which exploits the automatic flight of tethered airfoils (e.g. power kites) to extract energy from wind blowing between 200 and 800 meters above the ground. The key points of such a technology are described and the design of large scale plants is investigated here, in order to show that Kitenergy technology has the potential to provide large quantities of renewable energy with competitive cost with respect to fossil sources. Such claims are supported by the results obtained so far in the research activities undergoing at Politecnico di Torino, Italy, including numerical simulations, prototype experiments and wind data analyses.
date: 2009
date_type: published
publisher: CRC Press
pagerange: 167-170
refereed: TRUE
isbn: 978-1-4398-3419-0
book_title: Clean technology 2010: bioenergy, renewables, storage, grid, waste and sustainability: Technical Proceedings of the 2010 Clean Technology Conference and Expo
official_url: http://www.ct-si.org/publications/proceedings/procs/Cleantech2010/3/466
citation:   Fagiano, Lorenzo and Milanese, Mario and Piga, Dario  Kitenergy: a radical innovation in wind energy generation.   In:  Clean technology 2010: bioenergy, renewables, storage, grid, waste and sustainability: Technical Proceedings of the 2010 Clean Technology Conference and Expo.   CRC Press, pp. 167-170.  ISBN 978-1-4398-3419-0      (2009)