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Stories about: kites

Using Kites to Conduct Wind Speed Measurements Ever since the time of Benjamin Franklin, kites have been used as scientific equipments in a variety of simple and complex tasks. This has been owed to the fact that they are inexpensive to operate, and also capable of carrying a fair amount of sensing equipment given sufficient wind to lift it up. Sensors are even t... 28 July 2010 09:55 GMT Gigantic Kites Could Drive Floating Power Plants It would appear that, in producing electrical energy, scale is everything. Take the Three Gorges Dam for example, which is the largest hydroelectric power plant in the world. But if all countries would build such structures, then we would soon run out of significant rivers. Many individuals trying to extract energy f... 10 March 2010 03:48 GMT Method to Produce Long Strands of Nanotubes Devised Since carbon nanotubes (CNT) were first created, experts have realized that their future applications are in areas beyond electronics as well, including in designing, for example, cables to hold a space elevator. Among development leaders in this technology is Rice University professor and chemist Bob Hauge, who is t... 30 July 2009 04:00 GMT