Can Kite Power Revolutionize the Wind Industry?

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Jan 30, 2017, 2:37 pm361 pts
By Owen Agnew Rod Read, an engineer and stay-at-home dad, lives on the remote Isle of Lewis in Scotland. For the past seven years, he's been designing a kite that he thinks could revolutionize wind power . His prototype, a series of spinning rainbow-colored rings, stands out against the gray Scottish sky. On a…

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