After Highflyer Crashes,Airborne Wind Energy Regroups

• 作者: Peter Weiss
• 来源期刊: 工程（英文）
• 年，卷（期）: 2021,（3）
• 所属期刊栏目: News & Highlights
• 页码范围: 277-279
• 页数: 3页
• 语种: 英文

摘要

In January 2020,a rumor from California in the United States reached researchers and entrepreneurs in Europe,a thriving hub for the small,mostly trans-Atlantic field of engineering research and development called airborne wind energy (AWE):Alphabet,American technology giant Google's parent company,was quietly closing down Makani,the AWE subsidiary it had nurtured into the world's most advanced,visible,and well-funded enterprise designing and building tethered flying machines-kites in AWE parlance-intended ultimately to produce megawatts of wind energy.