{"id":578258,"date":"2010-05-25T12:20:19","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T16:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/visualscience\/?p=654"},"modified":"2010-05-25T12:20:19","modified_gmt":"2010-05-25T16:20:19","slug":"does-infinity-in-the-sky-mean-limitless-energy-visual-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/578258","title":{"rendered":"Does Infinity in the Sky Mean Limitless Energy? | Visual Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/discovermd.vo.llnwd.net\/o37\/visual-science\/IMG_2997.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>I got pretty excited when Makani Power staff photographer Andrea Dunlap showed me this photograph. For my purposes, it doesn&#8217;t get much better than this: sustainable energy, technology, the future, all rolled into a beautiful photograph. Pick up our June issue for a gander at the double-page spread.<\/p>\n<p>This photograph is 30-second exposure taken during a test of a 10-kilowatt-scale prototype of an airborne wind turbine in Maui, Hawaii. The mobile turbine has a span of about 16 feet and is tethered to the ground using a long, flexible cable. A computer controls the flight pattern. These tests show that a flying generator can sweep through a bigger wind window than a traditional turbine, and without the massive supporting towers. Makani Power plans to have a functional megawatt version of the tethered turbine ready by 2011. Makani Power is partially funded by Google.org as a potential source of renewable energy. Google&#8217;s server farms and the Internet in general have <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/reporting\/2010\/05\/17\/100517fa_fact_owen\">ever increasing demands for power<\/a>, which is in turn burning ever more coal.<\/p>\n<p>Photograph courtesy <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.makanipower.com\/\">Makani Power<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/1sNBXOxN54o\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got pretty excited when Makani Power staff photographer Andrea Dunlap showed me this photograph. For my purposes, it doesn&#8217;t get much better than this: sustainable energy, technology, the future, all rolled into a beautiful photograph. Pick up our June issue for a gander at the double-page spread. This photograph is 30-second exposure taken during [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":641,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-578258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/641"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}