{"id":41037,"date":"2019-10-02T04:22:17","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T04:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=41037"},"modified":"2019-10-02T04:22:17","modified_gmt":"2019-10-02T04:22:17","slug":"this-kite-could-harness-more-of-the-worlds-wind-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=41037","title":{"rendered":"This kite could harness more of the world&#8217;s wind energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">San Francisco (CNN Business)<\/cite>One company&#8217;s self-flying energy kite may be the answer to increasing wind power around the world.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">California-based Makani &#8212; which is owned by Google&#8217;s parent company, Alphabet &#8212; is using power from the strongest winds found out in the middle of the ocean, typically in spots where it&#8217;s a challenge to install traditional wind turbines. Makani hopes to create electricity to power communities across the world. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Despite a growing number of wind farms in the United States and the potential of this energy source, only 6% of the world&#8217;s electricity comes from wind due to the the difficulty of setting up and maintaining turbines, according to the World Wind Energy Association.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Francisco (CNN Business)One company&#8217;s self-flying energy kite may be the answer to increasing wind power around the world.California-based Makani &#8212; which is owned by Google&#8217;s parent company, Alphabet &#8212; is using power from the strongest winds found out in the middle of the ocean, typically in spots where it&#8217;s a challenge to install traditional&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":41038,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}