Our Mission: To convert the power in high altitude winds

                      into clean energy for a better world.TM

The purpose of this website is to bring to the world's attention that the energy in the high altitude winds is far more than enough to meet the world's energy needs, it is non global warming, and means of capturing this energy are available through a little further development of technologies that do not require any fundamental scientific breakthroughs.

TIME Magazine named Sky WindPower's flying electric generator one of the 50 top inventions of 2008. It is #35 on their list as Airborne Wind Power and is shown in a simulation near the beginning of TIME's video. Two alternative links may be found on our Links page.

TIME's Best Inventions of 2008

We recommend that you consider the peer reviewed paper published by the IEEE "Harnessing High Altitude Wind Power" IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion Vol 22 No.1 March 2007 for which Bryan Roberts, was the lead author. Or consider the other tethered methods now being pursued by others described in our "Flying Electric Generators and Other Tethered Methods" section below.

Truly high energy winds are at altitudes miles above us, not just at a few hundred feet where they are tapped by rotors on towers. This is clearly demonstrated in the form of detailed color charts calculated by Dr. Ken Caldeira of the Carnegie Department of Global Ecology at Stanford University. These charts show at what latitudes and altitudes this vast energy is to be found. We thank him for permission to display these charts in the Global Wind Resources section of this website.

Australian Professor Bryan Roberts has long been convinced that, by application of an appropriate technology, this high altitude wind energy can be captured. He set out to prove that long ago, and has demonstrated that Flying Electric Generator (FEG) technology is practical and should work at high altitudes.

In mass use, our calculations show that FEGs of Roberts' design should be able to produce electricity at a life cycle cost of LESS THAN TWO CENTS PER KILOWATT HOUR.

If all costs are considered, including the true costs of nuclear fission and of pollution control on hydrocarbon energy sources, this could be the world's cheapest energy source. (Possible exceptions are limited hydro sources and limited situations where surface-based wind turbines may be the most economic for supplying relatively local needs.) On a large scale, our figures show that high altitude wind energy will be capable of supplying the world's needs at the best overall economics.

When it is realized that high altitude wind energy is capable of being the most economical large scale energy source for much of the world, market forces will lead to its gradually supplanting fossil fuels as well as an end to the debate on global warming - because this clean energy source will produce no greenhouse gases.

The total swept area for a Flying Electric Generator of the same megawatt rating as a ground based wind turbine is typically about a quarter as much. Yet the Flying Electric Generator would produce far more megawatt hours of electricity per year due to the much higher high altitude wind speeds and constancy.

Note: Our stock is not publicly traded. There have been so many people asking how they could help with our (ad)venture that we have added a link to CafePress, where merchandise with the Sky WindPower logos and pictures can be purchased. When these items are used, they help promote Sky WindPower, our mission and Flying Electric Generators. Sky WindPower receives a percentage of each purchase.

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For a first viewing of this website, we suggest that you follow the order of reviewing sections as listed along the top of this page.