28-ton, 1.2-megawatt tidal kite is now exporting power to the grid
28-ton, 1.2-megawatt tidal kite is now exporting power to the grid
newatlas.com 28-ton, 1.2-megawatt tidal kite is now exporting power to the grid
Minesto's fully operational Dragon 12 looks like some sort of futuristic military drone – but it behaves remarkably like a kite underwater. It uses lift generated by tidal flows to fly patterns faster than the currents, harvesting renewable energy.
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Wow this is awesome. "land-based wind energy kites" are awesome too but this is very predictable. Although at what time of the day this would generate power would cycle with the moon so could be quite inconvenient too. But it would need a smaller battery to buffer since it's regular.