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Jet Stream Kites Could Power New York City
6/16/2009

Damien1972 writes to tell us that researchers from the Carnegie Institution and California State tutelage mash claim that a fleet of kites could harvest enough energy to run New York and other major cities, especially if they are prized by polar jet streams. "Using 28 years of data from the national Center for environmental management policy forecast and the beat of Energy, Ken Caldeira of the Carnegie Institution's quarter of Global Ecology and Cristina Archer of California State University, Chico compiled the first global survey of wind energy latent




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contingent at high altitudes in the atmosphere. They found that the regions best suited for harvesting this energy align with people centers in the eastern U.S. and East Asia, much as they note that 'fluctuating wind tax free still presents a stump for exploiting this energy source on a large scale.'"

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