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Roddy "Rags" Read

Scalable and efficient Kite Power Networks from rag and string tech. Worlds best power/weight

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Daisy Kite Airborne Wind Turbine

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Energy Independence While Travelling

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Kite Power for your adventures
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Portable Kite Turbines

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Things I've Built

Many Kite Turbines Later

I've kept building and testing kite turbines because they keep proving more capable of addressing our urgent need for scalable clean energy

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We have lift off!!!

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This attempt used a formed ply band. When flown, the link between ground set and kite ring was too unstable.

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First attempt at trying to stem mount a Daisy kite ring generator. Using a compression sleeve over inflated polythene tubes for the ring was a mistake... bit too leaky

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A small Portable Wind Turbine, mostly 3D printed!
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