Thousands will soon be craning their necks to see an impressive, colorful show above Metropolitan Community College’s Longview Campus. The annual Flights of Fancy Mega-Kite Festival is scheduled from ...

A new kite-driven power station is being built near Stranraer in Scotland, and will be one of the first large-scale commercial power stations of its kind. Kite-driven power stations are a relatively ...

If we told you that a free-flying kite could provide enough energy to power your house, you might consider us crazy. How about all the homes on your block, or even an entire city? Scientists at Delft ...

“Let’s go fly a kite” used to be a cheerful refrain from the end of Disney’s Mary Poppins. As it turns out, it could be a crucially important idea in the drive toward efficient use of renewable energy ...

Kieron Jansch's first kite was a diamond-shaped stunt kite with a tail. His friend had bought it for him, and Jansch loved it, but also managed to run it repeatedly into the ground. At the time he was ...

Name a method of generating power that's cheap, efficient, sustainable and sounds like something Mary Poppins dreamed up after downing 20 teaspoons of sugar. That's right -- kite power. One of the ...

Any kid who’s ever flown a kite has learned the lesson: Once you can get the kite off the ground and high into the air, you’re more likely to find a steady breeze to keep it aloft. A fledgling wind ...

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 ...

Geneva, Switzerland, is known for many things. It is the birthplace of the International Red Cross and the Geneva Conventions, and home to more than 270 nongovernmental organizations, and tens of ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Tie one end of a string to a piece of fabric and you have a kite; but tie the other end to a ...