A kite-obsessed designer ventures into the wild blue yonder with a soaring bamboo beauty. R. Kelly might have put it best in “I Believe I Can Fly:” “I think about it every night and day/spread my ...

The world's first commercial cargo ship partially powered by a giant kite is setting sail from Germany to Venezuela. The designers of the MS Beluga Skysails say the computer-controlled kite, measuring ...

As a the SkySails cargo ship finishes its maiden voyage, Nature News looks at the logic behind towing a ship with a kite. You have full access to this article via your institution. No, it?s a giant ...

For the past ten years, Hamburg-based SkySails has been engineering and producing what are essentially giant kites, designed to help ships reduce their fuel use by catching the wind and pulling them ...

BREMERHAVEN, Germany, Jan. 22 (UPI) -- The world's first commercial cargo ship partially powered by a giant kite is setting sail from Germany to Venezuela. The MS Beluga Skysails has a ...

Now you can get the top stories from Gizmodo delivered to your inbox. Enter your email below. Starting in January, a huge boat will attach itself to an enormous kite in a first-of-its-kind test to try ...

It looks like one renewable energy company has reinvented the wheel… er, sail. According to Gizmodo, a huge cargo ship will use a large kite to drag itself across the ocean in a test run next month ...

Google-funded startup Makani has already proven that kites have value as an energy source. Now the GE-chartered Beluga SkySails cargo vessel has shown that kites–yes, those lightweight things you fly ...

A kite the size of a football field will provide most of the power for a German heavy freight ship set to launch in December. The Beluga shipping company that owns the 460-foot Beluga said it expects ...

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