Kite power!
If the claims of Italy’s Sequoia researchers end up being true, the future of wind generated power is much brighter than it was deemed possible. KiteGen, an ingenious system of kites attached to a “merry go round” horizontal generator, is claimed to be scaleable up to 5 gigawatts per system, at a cost 30 times below normal wind power. This is electricity at a scale and price of atom generated power, but without any of the environmental drawbacks. Via the Portuguese Liberal Social blog.
Interesting, now it needs to be tested outside of a computer simulation. From what I read they cant yet predict what effect it will have on weather.