• LadderMill
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• http://www.naturalnews.com/003588.html
• Wind Energy
• Using Kites to Generate Electricity: Plodding, Low Tech Approach Wins
• Mystery Behind Franklin's Electrical Kite
• The Box Kite in Weather Research
• Domina Jalbert, Brother of the Wind
• Lightning By Vladimir A. Rakov, Martin A. Uman
• Airborne wind turbine   Wiki   
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• WPI kite power wiki
• Humdinger's Wind Power Alternative   Shawn Frayne
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8PaYIwjXPg
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHim2Vnkikw
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BOdLbQN36Q
• Patent: http://www.google.com/patents?id=9eYyAAAAEBAJ&dq=4486669
• http://www.freelights.co.uk/wg.html
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vURJKM6eHXI
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiHkbIBUBeU
• The flutter of the windbelt? Loft sets of windbelts? Windbelt, Cheap Generator Alternative, Set to Power Third World
• http://dvice.com/archives/2006/10/kite_generator_is_an_idea_that.php
• http://ec.europa.eu/research/energy/pdf/other_res02_ippolito.pdf
• http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006/10/71908
• Design in the chair AeroSpace for Sustainable Engineering and ...
• http://www.google.com/patents?id=mEM5AAAAEBAJ
• http://www.faqs.org/patents/app/20080231058
• http://www.voiceyourself.com/site/the_big_issues/article.php?article_id=5396&prev_id=
• http://darinselby.1hwy.com/windwingworkings.html
• http://www.vortexosc.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=87
• http://www.tetherapplications.com/papers/small_satellite.pdf
• Paul MacCready (RIP)  
• Page 42 of Drachen Foundation Journal Fall 2002 The pioneer kite inventor Domina Jalbert spoke emphatically about the water kite.
• http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=14088423  Manned kite coupled with hapa.
• http://www.dcss.org/ayrs/newsltrs/297101112.html
• Taras K: Electrical regeneration could be the future of sport flying
• http://www.aeroexperiments.org/links.shtml
• http://www.wingsystems.com/Development.htm
• http://current.com/items/87914261/wind_dam.htm
• Strong technical study on ribbon roter: http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/38720
• A Quantitative study of kite performance in natural wind with application to kite anemometry  by Hobbs, Stephen in 1986          Perhaps available: HERE.
• Article in 1998 on advancing sailmaking methods.
• Changes in Racing Sails and Sailmaking
• http://www.awea.org/
• NOAA
• http://www.awea.org/pubs/documents/TeachersGuide.pdf
• http://www.otherpower.com/otherpower_links.html
• http://www.drachen.org/journals/a16/Using-kites-to-generate-electricity.pdf
• http://www.plettenberg-motoren.com/
• http://www.guildworks.com/
• http://www.windsweptkites.com/Synergy333_zero_wind_%20manual.pdf
• http://2e5.com/kite/barish/
• http://2e5.com/kite/nasa/
• http://2e5.com/kite/nasa/reports/
• http://2e5.com/kite/yagu/         http://2e5.com/kite/npwc/foilnose3/
• Kitegen
• Windlift
• Laddermill at TU Delft
• Diehl group in Leuven
• Makani Power
• Kiteforsail
• Specknet
• Gian Mauro Maneia
• "Aerodynamic study of airfoils and wings for power kites applications" Master Thesis in Aerospace Engineering - Politecnico di Torino (ITALY) by Gian Mauro Maneia
• Skysails
• Leuven Kite Workshop
• Kiteship
• Franklin's Electrostatics  (PDF)
• Thermo-Fluid Mechanics Research Centre- Sussex CFD lab
• Flexifoil
• First International Workshop on Modelling and Optimization of Power Generating Kites
• http://www.hicon.us/gpage6.html
• HeliWind ..... A unique Wind Turbine making power for only 3¢ per Kw-Hr! 
• HeliTube  ..... A  HeliWind powered by Ocean Currents 
• HeliPump  ..... A high altitude HeliWind
• HeliWind Energy Station ..
• http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:HeliWind
• http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:Vertical_Axis_Wind_Turbines
• http://kitesurfingschool.org/kiteenergy.htm
• http://www.kitegen.com/index_en.html
• http://pdf.nauticexpo.com/pdf/takoon/user-guide-2008/21599-4795.html
• http://www.kitepower.com.au/news/?links
• http://www.kitegen.com/pages/technology3.html  Several documents linked.
• http://www.kitegen.com/pdf/IEEECSM200712.pdf
• http://www.kitegen.com/pdf/ACCNewYork2007.pdf
• http://www.ae.hangglide.dk/html/linked.php?go=faq
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• High Altitude Wind Power
• http://www.caldwell.k12.oh.us/science/AmSci01/index.htm
• http://www.sas.org/
• http://www.efluids.com/
• http://www.aerobie.com/Science.htm Toy
   
• PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION OF A PARAGLIDER: LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER TECHNICAL NOTE D-443. Francis M. Rogallo, J. G. Lowry, D. R Croom and R T. Taylor. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1960.[Editor: Notice that in 1960 "paraglider" included stiffened Rogallo wing devices. In 1961, the stiffenened Rogallo wing made by the team under Charles Richards at NASA produced the full wing portability and collapsibility of aluminum tube frame, battened sails, Dacron sail and format that provided (along with the similar Fleep wings) the template for the first round of standard Rogallo-wing hang gliders; in 1961-2, such devices were still called "paragliders" and "kite-like glider". Later, as Barish sailwing and governable Jalber parafoils and hang gliding had a renaissance of hang gliding activity, the fully limp hang glider began to be named "paraglider" and the stiffenened hang gliders, just "hang glider" even while all were hang gliders that had the pilot hung from the kite-line in freeflight to tug the wing; the pilot would push and pull the airframe of the kite's wing to control the freeflight of the gliding kite system that was an activity called hang gliding (and if the hang gliding was with a fully limp governable wing, then called parakiting (if ground moored either fixed or mobile) and "paragliding" when freeflight occurred. Either the kite system was fixed to a immobile or mobile ground mooring or the kite system was moored to a hung free-falling pilot.] [Such kites or paragliders can be involved in electricity-generation systems regardless of the level of stiffness or limpness of the kite; there will be niche applications for all levels of stiffness. Notice that the coming nanotech materials will be allowing full "solid" extremely low-density wings for working systems; there is talk of a lighter-than-air "solid" enabling forming kytoons where concern for gas replacement does not measure into the challenge.]
   
• HIPFiSH Columbia-Pacific's Alternative Monthly (Aug.-Sept./2007) [ ] article sought
   
• An inflatable wing using the principle of Tensairity
   
• Joep Breuer and Wubbo Ockels
  Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands
  Rolf H. Luchsinger
  Empa, Dübendorf, Switzerland
   
•  Worldwatch Institute,“Renewables 2005: Global Status Report” prepared
  for the Renewable Energy Policy Network, Washington DC,
  2005. http://www.REN21.net
   
•  “Smart control system exploiting the characteristics of generic kites
  or airfoils to convert energy”, European patent ] 02840646, inventor:
  M. Ippolito, December 2004
   
•  “Sistema e procedimento di controllo automatico del volo di profili
  alari di potenza”, Patent n. TO2006A000372, inventors: M. Milanese,
  M. Ippolito, May 2006
• 
   M. Canale, L. Fagiano, M. Ippolito and M. Milanese, “Control of
  tethered airfoils for a new class of wind energy generator”, in 45th
  IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, San Diego (CA), USA,
  2006
• 
  M. Diehl, “Real-Time Optimization for Large Scale Nonlinear
  Processes”, PhD thesis, University of Heidelberg, Germany, 2001
   
•  B. Houska and M. Diehl, “Optimal Control for Power Generating
  Kites”, in 9th European Control Conference, Kos, Greece, 2007.
   
•  B. Houska and M. Diehl, “Optimal Control of Towing Kites”, in 45th
  IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, San Diego (CA), USA,
  2006
   
•  T. Parisini and R. Zoppoli, “A receding-horizon regulator for nonlinear
  systems and a neural approximation”. Automatica 31(10), 1443–1451,
  1995.
   
• M. Canale and M. Milanese, “FMPC: a fast implementation of model
  predictive control”, in 16th IFAC World Congress, Prague, Czech
  Republic, July 2005.
   
• M.Canale, L. Fagiano, M. Milanese, “Fast implementation of nonlinear
  model predictive controllers”. Technical Report CaFM-1-2006. Dipartimento
  di Automatica e Informatica, Politecnico di Torino, 2006.
   
•  M. Milanese and C. Novara, “Set membership identification of nonlinear
  systems”, Automatica, vol. 40, pp. 957–975, 2004.
   
•  M. Milanese, C. Novara and L. Pivano, “Structured Experimental
  Modelling of Complex Nonlinear Systems”, 42nd IEEE Conference
  on Decision and Control, Maui, Hawaii, 2003.
   
•  KiteGen report ]3, Dip. Automatica e Informatica, Politecnico di
  Torino, Italy, October 2006
   
• Vestas Wind Systems A/S website: http://www.vestas.com
   
•  D. R. Ramirez, M. R. Arahal and E. F. Camacho “Min-max predictive
  control of a heat exchanger using a neural network solver” IEEE
  Transactions on Control Systems Technology 12(5), 776–786, 2004.
   
• M.M. Seron, G.C. Goodwin and J.A. De Doná, “Characterization
  of receding horizon control for constrained linear systems”, Asian
  Journal of Control 5(2), 271–286, 2003.
   
• A. Bemporad, M. Morari, V. Dua and E.N. Pistikopoulos “The explicit
  linear quadratic regulator for constrained systems”, Automatica 38, 3–
  20, 2002.
   
• A Problem With Wind Power  
   
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