{"id":8231,"date":"2019-02-15T09:29:45","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T17:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=8231"},"modified":"2019-02-15T10:56:42","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T18:56:42","slug":"electricity-generating-kites-googles-makani-moonshot-takes-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/15\/electricity-generating-kites-googles-makani-moonshot-takes-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Electricity-generating kites? Google&#8217;s &#8220;Makani&#8221; moonshot takes off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.x.company\/makani-takes-to-the-ocean-with-shell-5aa74551917a\">&#8220;Days of miracles &amp; wonder,&#8221; part 9,277<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We\u2019re working to advance the global adoption of renewable energy by creating kites that efficiently harness energy from the wind. After more than a decade developing our energy kite technology on land, I\u2019m thrilled to share that we\u2019re now partnering with Shell to bring Makani to offshore environments. As we take this next step towards commercialization, we\u2019ll also be moving on from the Moonshot Factory, our home for the last five years, to become an independent business within Alphabet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Watch it soar:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3FapxQuH7ns?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NewImage.png\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/NewImage-5.png\" alt=\"NewImage\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/3FapxQuH7ns\">YouTube<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Days of miracles &amp; wonder,&#8221; part 9,277: We\u2019re working to advance the global adoption of renewable energy by creating kites that efficiently harness energy from the wind. After more than a decade developing our energy kite technology on land, I\u2019m thrilled to share that we\u2019re now partnering with Shell to bring Makani to offshore environments. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8231"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8231"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8243,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8231\/revisions\/8243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}