Makani Power http://www.makanipower.com Airborne Wind Energy Fri, 24 May 2013 02:55:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Brian Hachtmann’s Notebook http://www.makanipower.com/2013/05/brian-hachtmanns-notebook/ http://www.makanipower.com/2013/05/brian-hachtmanns-notebook/#comments Tue, 14 May 2013 01:07:43 +0000 andrea http://www.makanipower.com/?p=3376 Ground Station Team Lead Brian Hachtmann shares his process for our series of photographs of notebooks inspired by the likes of engineers such as Wilbur Wright, whose dispatches are part of the collection of the Library of Congress.… Read more]]> http://www.makanipower.com/2013/05/brian-hachtmanns-notebook/feed/ 0 Fully Autonomous Kite Power System Flight http://www.makanipower.com/2013/05/fully-auto/ http://www.makanipower.com/2013/05/fully-auto/#comments Tue, 14 May 2013 00:02:37 +0000 andrea http://www.makanipower.com/?p=3379

On May 3rd, 2012, Makani drafted specifications for a ground station from which our 30 kW airborne wind turbine could be deployed. On May 9th, 2013, after a year of mechanical design, fabrication and testing, the team completed the first-ever fully autonomous flight of a kite power system.… Read more

]]> http://www.makanipower.com/2013/05/fully-auto/feed/ 0 Ask Damon: Why is airborne wind possible now? http://www.makanipower.com/2013/03/ask-damon-why-is-airborne-wind-possible-now/ http://www.makanipower.com/2013/03/ask-damon-why-is-airborne-wind-possible-now/#comments Tue, 05 Mar 2013 18:55:48 +0000 andrea http://www.makanipower.com/?p=3328 The mechanism by which Makani AWTs extract energy, crosswind flight, has been well described for some time. An engineer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Miles Loyd, described the fundamental performance of such a system in his seminal paper in 1980.… Read more

]]> http://www.makanipower.com/2013/03/ask-damon-why-is-airborne-wind-possible-now/feed/ 0 The Advantages and Challenges of Offshore Wind http://www.makanipower.com/2013/02/the-advantages-and-challenges-of-offshore-wind/ http://www.makanipower.com/2013/02/the-advantages-and-challenges-of-offshore-wind/#comments Fri, 08 Feb 2013 22:40:57 +0000 andrea http://www.makanipower.com/?p=3284 Offshore wind is expected to grow massively over the next several decades. Most existing wind farms at sea are in northern Europe, where 5 gigawatts have been installed. China has started pilot projects (with plans to build 30 gigawatts by 2020), and the United States has many offshore developments in the works (plans for 10 gigawatts by 2020).… Read more

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Dated December 2, 2008, this is a page from early in Makani’s development of airborne wind turbine controls.… Read more

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]]> http://www.makanipower.com/2013/02/discover-magazine/feed/ 0 Best photos of 2012 http://www.makanipower.com/2013/01/best-photos-of-2012/ http://www.makanipower.com/2013/01/best-photos-of-2012/#comments Tue, 15 Jan 2013 17:56:00 +0000 andrea http://www.makanipower.com/?p=3243 20120328-IMG_0054

The business team put together an album of their favorite photos from 2012, which you can see here on our Google Plus page.… Read more

]]> http://www.makanipower.com/2013/01/best-photos-of-2012/feed/ 0 Cathy Zoi Named to Makani Power Board of Directors http://www.makanipower.com/2013/01/cathy-zoi-named-to-makani-power-board-of-directors/ http://www.makanipower.com/2013/01/cathy-zoi-named-to-makani-power-board-of-directors/#comments Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:02:44 +0000 alden http://www.makanipower.com/?p=3232 We are pleased to announce that Cathy Zoi, an experienced executive and energy policy expert, has joined Makani’s board of directors. Zoi is a partner at Silver Lake Kraftwerk and a former senior official at the US Department of Energy.… Read more

]]> http://www.makanipower.com/2013/01/cathy-zoi-named-to-makani-power-board-of-directors/feed/ 0 National Geographic Video http://www.makanipower.com/2012/12/national-geographic-video/ http://www.makanipower.com/2012/12/national-geographic-video/#comments Sun, 16 Dec 2012 21:52:20 +0000 andrea http://www.makanipower.com/?p=3225 Reporter Dan Stone and video producer Spencer Millsap stopped by Makani a week ago along their road trip visiting California’s innovators. The results of their visit are up now on the National Geographic site.… Read more

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A Wind Power Innovator Dies Too Young

The wind energy industry lost a pioneer last month when Corwin Hardham, the athletic, kitesurfing CEO of Makani Power, died at his desk at the age of 38.… Read more

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