Print Email Facebook Twitter The Laddermill: Innovative Wind Energy from High Altitudes in Holland and Australia Title The Laddermill: Innovative Wind Energy from High Altitudes in Holland and Australia Author Lansdorp, B. Williams, P. Faculty Aerospace Engineering Date 2006 Abstract The Laddermill is a novel concept to harvest electricity from high altitude winds. The concept's operating principle is to drive an electric generator using tethered kites. Several kites are deployed to altitudes of more than 1 km by means of a single cable that is connected to a drum on the groundstation. The upper portion of the cable is connected to the high altitude kites, whereas the lower portion of the cable remains wound around the drum. The kites are controlled to pull the cable from the drum, which in turn drives a generator. Subject laddermillwind energy To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:9ebe67f0-5b2a-4b99-8a3d-dbe758e53022 Publisher Windpower, Adelaide, Australia Source Windpower 2006 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights (c) 2006 B. Lansdorp, P. Williams. Files PDF The Laddermill - Innovati ... itudes.pdf 676.73 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:9ebe67f0-5b2a-4b99-8a3d-dbe758e53022/datastream/OBJ/view