http://www.google.com/makani/solution/
So, what they're prosing is to build wind kites rather than windmills, using fewers materials and accessing the higher windspeeds of higher altitudes (possibly also removing, I suspect, some ot he noise and appearance problems of windmills). This could give access to wind power outside the blustery belts of Northern Europe. We could be seriously about to look at a post oil world (we'd have to use energy to synthesise hydocarbons, but hey). The tek is vorspringing…