Kitegen

Description

"KiteGen is a concept developed in Italy for a wind harnessing machine that takes power from high altitude winds. The vertical axis orientation of the rotation is intended to eliminate the static and dynamic problems that prevent the increase in size of conventional wind turbines. The prototype STEM yo-yo is under construction at Berzano di San Pietro (Italy). The KiteGen was originally conceived by an Italian Researcher: Massimo Ippolito. Looking at the kite surfers he noticed the large amount of energy that the kite was able to collect and thought that a similar system could produce electricity. This idea seemed to Ippolito so risky that he put it aside for some years.

Appeal for Assistance

Marco Guistini, July 2010:

"In Italy I'm involved as supporter in a project related to not-scarce renewable energy production. This project is called (Kitegen http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitegen). Actually we're trying with lots of difficulties to start the first onsite Kitegen (Kitegen Stem) in the northern Italy.

But the reason why I'm writing here is not technical.

The tecnology behind Kitegen is worldwide patented and he the inventor, Mr. Ippolito, refused to sell patents to energy multinationals, because he believes that Kitegen could be a tool to produce not-scarce energy to free people.

He's aware of attempts to extend the free-software paradigm in the real world and he could be interested to eventually give his patents to a collective entity (i.e. a no-profit foundation), if it will work to spread widely his technology, balancing profit with commons' interest.

We created in Italy a public company to support the project that collected from people 1 million euro, but is not enough. We need more.

We wish to build something really new, a free (free as in free beer!) enterprise, commons-based, working on crowdsourcing.

Could you help us to implement a model like this?

Marco "magius" Giustini

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