Chief pilot Doherty preparing to launch one Kitepower Kites at the launch site at Bangor Erris, Ireland. — AFP
ON Ireland’s blustery western seaboard researchers are gleefully flying giant kites – not for fun but in the hope of generating renewable electricity and sparking a “revolution” in wind energy.
“We use a kite to capture the wind and a generator at the bottom of it that captures the power,” said Padraic Doherty of Kitepower, the Dutch firm behind the venture.
