Alphabet, Google’s parent company, is letting go of its power-generating kites company Makani, according to a Tuesday blog post by Makani CEO Fort Felker. It’s the first project from X, Alphabet’s ...

Norway forgets about wind turbines for a while, and remembers a wind project with origins in the United States that had made promises of a flying kite producing 600 kW, so as to rewrite the clean ...

“Despite strong technical progress, the road to commercialization is longer and riskier than hoped, so from today Makani’s time at Alphabet is coming to an end.” Alphabet lost $4.8 billion last year ...

Google’s parent company Alphabet is pulling out of the Makani high-altitude ‘energy kite’ project, with the technology's future now apparently dependent on oil & gas giant Shell. After seven years ...