Tag High altitude wind power

Will the Netherlands rule high altitude wind?

The country has three key ingredients: good technology, a cooperative government and really bad weather. High altitude wind uses tethered kites or planes at very high altitudes to generate electricity. Sounds crazy, doesn’t it? But so did solar and wind…

High altitude wind power and EROEI

The Oil Drum explains, in one of their trademark long, detailed, highly informative posts, how high altitude wind power may produce a superior Energy Returned On Energy Invested ratio (EROEI) compared to other renewable energy sources and quite possibly even…