Comments on: Underwater Kite Harnesses Ocean Energy http://cleantechnica.com/2009/10/23/underwater-kite-harnesses-ocean-energy/ Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Sat, 26 May 2012 03:08:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Hussain Haleem http://cleantechnica.com/2009/10/23/underwater-kite-harnesses-ocean-energy/#comment-83828 Hussain Haleem Wed, 02 Feb 2011 07:11:40 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=3798#comment-83828 I love the clean innovated energy system which will definitely work on Our Island as every body know 0 degree atolls. the sunny side of earth, Our government research of wind energy but I would say the ocean energy will be much batter and cheaper. Nice and best project best of luck I love the clean innovated energy system which will definitely work on Our Island as every body know 0 degree atolls. the sunny side of earth, Our government research of wind energy but I would say the ocean energy will be much batter and cheaper.
Nice and best project
best of luck

]]> By: Peb0 http://cleantechnica.com/2009/10/23/underwater-kite-harnesses-ocean-energy/#comment-7775 Peb0 Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:40:50 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=3798#comment-7775 Ok, is it me or is there something flawed with this approach? What I mean is... how is this any different than just "funneling" the current in a way that accelerates it through and opening except in reverse?? They've taken a simple concept and made it "neat", but not derived any additional energy. They've just made something cool to watch but made complicated to build (or more complicated than it needs to be). An underwater wind-sock would do the same thing (without flying around), but cost 10% to produce and maintain. Ok, is it me or is there something flawed with this approach? What I mean is… how is this any different than just “funneling” the current in a way that accelerates it through and opening except in reverse??

They’ve taken a simple concept and made it “neat”, but not derived any additional energy. They’ve just made something cool to watch but made complicated to build (or more complicated than it needs to be).

An underwater wind-sock would do the same thing (without flying around), but cost 10% to produce and maintain.

]]> By: Peb0 http://cleantechnica.com/2009/10/23/underwater-kite-harnesses-ocean-energy/#comment-24833 Peb0 Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:40:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=3798#comment-24833 Ok, is it me or is there something flawed with this approach? What I mean is... how is this any different than just "funneling" the current in a way that accelerates it through and opening except in reverse?? They've taken a simple concept and made it "neat", but not derived any additional energy. They've just made something cool to watch but made complicated to build (or more complicated than it needs to be). An underwater wind-sock would do the same thing (without flying around), but cost 10% to produce and maintain. Ok, is it me or is there something flawed with this approach? What I mean is… how is this any different than just “funneling” the current in a way that accelerates it through and opening except in reverse??

They’ve taken a simple concept and made it “neat”, but not derived any additional energy. They’ve just made something cool to watch but made complicated to build (or more complicated than it needs to be).

An underwater wind-sock would do the same thing (without flying around), but cost 10% to produce and maintain.

]]> By: Denise Vauthier http://cleantechnica.com/2009/10/23/underwater-kite-harnesses-ocean-energy/#comment-7774 Denise Vauthier Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:06:29 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=3798#comment-7774 This is not a new concept. See http://uekus.com A variation on a patented idea whose original patent has expired but there are other patents active on this device. This is not a new concept. See http://uekus.com

A variation on a patented idea whose original patent has expired but there are other patents active on this device.

]]> By: Denise Vauthier http://cleantechnica.com/2009/10/23/underwater-kite-harnesses-ocean-energy/#comment-24832 Denise Vauthier Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:06:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=3798#comment-24832 This is not a new concept. See http://uekus.com A variation on a patented idea whose original patent has expired but there are other patents active on this device. This is not a new concept. See http://uekus.com

A variation on a patented idea whose original patent has expired but there are other patents active on this device.

]]> By: Tony N http://cleantechnica.com/2009/10/23/underwater-kite-harnesses-ocean-energy/#comment-7773 Tony N Sun, 13 Dec 2009 02:03:56 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=3798#comment-7773 That's it for effective energy gathering, flying foils in fluid, swooping on a thether or going to & fro along a track to spin the prop. Yes detritus will foul them, corrosion & wear take place, but they could be easily disconnected floated ashore & fixed. Sea creatures will be "sushied" so a warning sound or light system should be perfected. That’s it for effective energy gathering, flying foils in fluid, swooping on a thether or going to & fro along a track to spin the prop.

Yes detritus will foul them, corrosion & wear take place, but they could be easily disconnected floated ashore & fixed.

Sea creatures will be “sushied” so a warning sound or light system should be perfected.

]]> By: Tony N http://cleantechnica.com/2009/10/23/underwater-kite-harnesses-ocean-energy/#comment-24831 Tony N Sun, 13 Dec 2009 02:03:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=3798#comment-24831 That's it for effective energy gathering, flying foils in fluid, swooping on a thether or going to & fro along a track to spin the prop. Yes detritus will foul them, corrosion & wear take place, but they could be easily disconnected floated ashore & fixed. Sea creatures will be "sushied" so a warning sound or light system should be perfected. That’s it for effective energy gathering, flying foils in fluid, swooping on a thether or going to & fro along a track to spin the prop.

Yes detritus will foul them, corrosion & wear take place, but they could be easily disconnected floated ashore & fixed.

Sea creatures will be “sushied” so a warning sound or light system should be perfected.

]]> By: Oleksiy http://cleantechnica.com/2009/10/23/underwater-kite-harnesses-ocean-energy/#comment-7772 Oleksiy Sat, 05 Dec 2009 04:58:53 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=3798#comment-7772 Here is the same idea on actual kites: http://www.ted.com/talks/saul_griffith_on_kites_as_the_future_of_renewable_energy.html Here is the same idea on actual kites:

http://www.ted.com/talks/saul_griffith_on_kites_as_the_future_of_renewable_energy.html

]]> By: Oleksiy http://cleantechnica.com/2009/10/23/underwater-kite-harnesses-ocean-energy/#comment-24830 Oleksiy Sat, 05 Dec 2009 04:58:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=3798#comment-24830 Here is the same idea on actual kites: http://www.ted.com/talks/saul_griffith_on_kites_as_the_future_of_renewable_energy.html Here is the same idea on actual kites:

http://www.ted.com/talks/saul_griffith_on_kites_as_the_future_of_renewable_energy.html

]]> By: heather http://cleantechnica.com/2009/10/23/underwater-kite-harnesses-ocean-energy/#comment-7771 heather Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:44:09 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=3798#comment-7771 THE ENTERPRISE THE ENTERPRISE

]]> By: heather http://cleantechnica.com/2009/10/23/underwater-kite-harnesses-ocean-energy/#comment-24829 heather Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:44:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=3798#comment-24829 THE ENTERPRISE THE ENTERPRISE

]]> By: Uncle B http://cleantechnica.com/2009/10/23/underwater-kite-harnesses-ocean-energy/#comment-7770 Uncle B Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:58:45 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=3798#comment-7770 As mankind grows apart from the wasteful "American Dream" borne of the "Cheap Oil Age" in America and towards a more realistic, sustainable, image, we begin to see Wave power as a practical reality, and when combined with Solar, passive a and active elements, super-insulations and other conservation designs Science makes clear, technologies make possible, Survival in reasonable comfort becomes an affordable reality for humans! Wind, in its infancy will soon compete, but for now, denser water powered means reign supreme! Tidal engines in Ireland today! Scotland too! Bay of Fundy soon a great, perpetual, Canadian resource, and once the Americans set their minds to the issue and stop chasing oil, they too can share in the New Age! Servicing these water-kites will certainly make for homeland based jobs that cannot be exported to Asians, and power for survival in the homelands too! I like it! As mankind grows apart from the wasteful “American Dream” borne of the “Cheap Oil Age” in America and towards a more realistic, sustainable, image, we begin to see Wave power as a practical reality, and when combined with Solar, passive a and active elements, super-insulations and other conservation designs Science makes clear, technologies make possible, Survival in reasonable comfort becomes an affordable reality for humans! Wind, in its infancy will soon compete, but for now, denser water powered means reign supreme! Tidal engines in Ireland today! Scotland too! Bay of Fundy soon a great, perpetual, Canadian resource, and once the Americans set their minds to the issue and stop chasing oil, they too can share in the New Age! Servicing these water-kites will certainly make for homeland based jobs that cannot be exported to Asians, and power for survival in the homelands too! I like it!

]]> By: Uncle B http://cleantechnica.com/2009/10/23/underwater-kite-harnesses-ocean-energy/#comment-24828 Uncle B Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:58:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=3798#comment-24828 As mankind grows apart from the wasteful "American Dream" borne of the "Cheap Oil Age" in America and towards a more realistic, sustainable, image, we begin to see Wave power as a practical reality, and when combined with Solar, passive a and active elements, super-insulations and other conservation designs Science makes clear, technologies make possible, Survival in reasonable comfort becomes an affordable reality for humans! Wind, in its infancy will soon compete, but for now, denser water powered means reign supreme! Tidal engines in Ireland today! Scotland too! Bay of Fundy soon a great, perpetual, Canadian resource, and once the Americans set their minds to the issue and stop chasing oil, they too can share in the New Age! Servicing these water-kites will certainly make for homeland based jobs that cannot be exported to Asians, and power for survival in the homelands too! I like it! As mankind grows apart from the wasteful “American Dream” borne of the “Cheap Oil Age” in America and towards a more realistic, sustainable, image, we begin to see Wave power as a practical reality, and when combined with Solar, passive a and active elements, super-insulations and other conservation designs Science makes clear, technologies make possible, Survival in reasonable comfort becomes an affordable reality for humans! Wind, in its infancy will soon compete, but for now, denser water powered means reign supreme! Tidal engines in Ireland today! Scotland too! Bay of Fundy soon a great, perpetual, Canadian resource, and once the Americans set their minds to the issue and stop chasing oil, they too can share in the New Age! Servicing these water-kites will certainly make for homeland based jobs that cannot be exported to Asians, and power for survival in the homelands too! I like it!

]]> By: nick http://cleantechnica.com/2009/10/23/underwater-kite-harnesses-ocean-energy/#comment-7769 nick Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:26:16 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=3798#comment-7769 <i>Also what is environmental impact? If there are accidents, say killing sea creatures, how bad can it get?</i> It's all out of sight. Nick Also what is environmental impact? If there are accidents, say killing sea creatures, how bad can it get?

It’s all out of sight.

Nick

]]> By: nick http://cleantechnica.com/2009/10/23/underwater-kite-harnesses-ocean-energy/#comment-24827 nick Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:26:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=3798#comment-24827 <i>Also what is environmental impact? If there are accidents, say killing sea creatures, how bad can it get?</i> It's all out of sight. Nick Also what is environmental impact? If there are accidents, say killing sea creatures, how bad can it get?

It’s all out of sight.

Nick

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