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Google Ends Kite Energy Initiative. Commercializing the tech will take too long and be too risky.
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| 2-20-2020
| Andy Szal
Posted on 02/20/2020 12:14:55 PM PST by fishtank
Google Ends Kite Energy Initiative. Commercializing the tech will take too long and be too risky.
2-20-2020
AUTHORS Andy Szal
Googles parent company is ending an ambitious effort to harness wind energy using kites after officials determined that commercializing the technology would be longer and riskier than originally hoped.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: energy; globalwarminghoax; greennewdeal; hydrocarbons; kite; maga; opec
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02/20/2020 12:14:55 PM PST
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fishtank
To: fishtank
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02/20/2020 12:20:57 PM PST
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fishtank
(The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
To: fishtank
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02/20/2020 12:22:58 PM PST
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rktman
( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
To: fishtank
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02/20/2020 12:23:15 PM PST
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fishtank
(The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
To: fishtank
What about an initiative to harvest green cheese from the moon to feed the homeless?
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02/20/2020 12:26:52 PM PST
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samtheman
(Trump TV Ad: Virginia takes guns. NY legalizes crime. Iowa steals votes. What Democrats do.)
To: fishtank
Its actually a really neat, cost effective technology for 30-50 kw turbines. Could do a lot of good in Africa and other third world countries for village power and water pumping applications but no dice.
Google wants mega watt sized versions and that just aint happening - ever.
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02/20/2020 1:20:57 PM PST
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rdcbn
( Referentiai)
To: fishtank
Darn, how are we going to save the erf now?
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02/20/2020 1:55:48 PM PST
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VTenigma
(The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
To: VTenigma
Well, there’s still my renewable wind chime solution.
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02/20/2020 2:14:12 PM PST
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Boogieman
To: Boogieman
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02/20/2020 2:20:04 PM PST
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VTenigma
(The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
To: fishtank; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ...
This ridiculous scheme used to show up in the pages of Popular Science every five years or so, as the huckster would reboot and rebrand a bit.
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03/16/2020 6:19:51 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: fishtank
I don’t get it. How do you generate enough power to make this feasible, if you need to spin propellers to keep the kite off the ground?
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03/16/2020 7:14:24 AM PDT
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Berosus
(I wish I had as much faith in God as liberals have in government.)
To: fishtank
Big wind is depleting wind energy contributing to global warming! We must transition from big wind.
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