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Makani Joins Google 27 May 2013 | 03:27 am
We are happy to announce that Makani Power has been acquired by Google. This formalizes a long and productive relationship between our two companies and will provide Makani with the resources to acce...
Brian Hachtmann’s Notebook 14 May 2013 | 06:07 am
Ground Station Team Lead Brian Hachtmann shares his process for our series of photographs of notebooks inspired by the likes of engineers such as Wilbur Wright, whose dispatches are part of the collec...
Fully Autonomous Kite Power System Flight 14 May 2013 | 05:02 am
On May 3rd, 2012, Makani drafted specifications for a ground station from which our 30 kW airborne wind turbine could be deployed. On May 9th, 2013, after a year of mechanical design, fabrication and ...
Ask Damon: Why is airborne wind possible now? 5 Mar 2013 | 11:55 pm
The mechanism by which Makani AWTs extract energy, crosswind flight, has been well described for some time. An engineer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Miles Loyd, described the fundamental...
The Advantages and Challenges of Offshore Wind 9 Feb 2013 | 03:40 am
Business Team Lead Alden Woodrow explains why offshore wind is so attractive, and some of the obstacles to deploying wind turbines at sea. Offshore wind is expected to grow massively over the next se...
Kenneth Jensen’s Notebook 8 Feb 2013 | 03:05 am
Controls Team Lead, Kenny Jensen opens up his notebook for our photo series inspired by archived notebooks of innovators of the past (see this To Do list from Thomas Edison’s archive). Dated December...
Discover Magazine 2 Feb 2013 | 03:10 am
Photo editor Rebecca Horne curated a set of photos of Makani technology for Discover Magazine, which you can see here.… Read more
Best photos of 2012 15 Jan 2013 | 10:56 pm
The business team put together an album of their favorite photos from 2012, which you can see here on our Google Plus page.… Read more
Cathy Zoi Named to Makani Power Board of Directors 8 Jan 2013 | 04:02 am
We are pleased to announce that Cathy Zoi, an experienced executive and energy policy expert, has joined Makani’s board of directors. Zoi is a partner at Silver Lake Kraftwerk and a former senior offi...
National Geographic Video 17 Dec 2012 | 02:52 am
Reporter Dan Stone and video producer Spencer Millsap stopped by Makani a week ago along their road trip visiting California’s innovators. The results of their visit are up now on the National Geograp...
