They're certainly cheaper, hardier, safer and less intrusive than windmill-style designs, and they offer a highly-accessible way to introduce reliable wind energy into a distributed power system.

This means the system works with any old wind turbine design – and it can scale to handle more or less any size of turbine tower. You still need a crane ship, but it's a comparatively tiny one.

With over 350,000 wind turbines currently in use globally, wind continues to be one of the fastest growing forms of renewable energy. In 2021, 93.6 GW of new installations brought global cumulative ...

Dutch startup Airturb has developed a 500 W hybrid wind-solar power system featuring a vertical axis wind turbine and a solar base hosting four 30 W solar panels. The system can be used for rooftop or ...

Chinese firm has tested the world’s first megawatt class airborne wind turbine platform designed to feed electricity directly ...