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Makani Power, Inc.    team size? 18 or more ... Most recent change to this page: 07/09/2013

Generalized link: MakaniPower88Lift11000Apr2009

• 2013 changes: Makani Power is now owned by Google-[x]. Google-[x] is not a member of AWEC. Makani Power no longer participates in AWEC as it chose to leave AWEC  [UNCONFIRMED [ ] ] and concentrate its efforts as a member of AWEA, preferring that mainstream wind industry association for numerous business related reasons.  Purchase PRICE of the company by Google [x] has not been made public.      Big question: Will the company diversify its methods or not?
• Google X acquires Makani Power for kite-like airborne wind turbines   Short artistic video by someone?
   
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• Welcoming Sergey Brin into the AWE Field    May 21, 2013
   
• May 2014 Alden Woodrow               http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=2862200&locale=en_US&trk=tyah2   Alden Woodrow is the business team lead at Makani Power.
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• Don Montague steps in as Interim Makani CEO

  RIP: Corwin Hardman passed on Oct. 23, 2012, age 38.    News1   News2   News3

• 2013 notes

  Forum Welcome-Wagon (Makani names Cathy Zoi as Board Director) Cathy Zoi    wiki+

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• ARPA-E
• In 2012: Alden Woodrow, Makani's vice president of corporate development.
   
• Makani M1 is a proposal for a 1 MW machine AWT
• News spot concerning ARPA-E funding. Some images.      This is a nod from DoD to AWE.
• July17, 2010, sees a major opening of the web site. New files. Wider explanations. Nice.  Corwin Hardham sent out notice of the changes.
• http://www.makanipower.com/jobs.html  
• Re: Saul G. leaving MP:: "He had recently removed himself from his last start-up, an ambitious alternative-energy company known as Makani Power" re: approx Fall 2009 to ? Source      Infant son son: Huxley.
• http://money.cnn.com/video/technology/2009/10/30/tt_makani_kite_power.fortune/
• Corwin Hardham did talk...and gave a fine presentation at HAWP Conference 2009
• http://aa.stanford.edu/aeroastro/50th/posters/highaltitude.pdf
• News: August 2009: web pages and graphics and team list have major changes.
  New team list (might be incomplete; who knows?) : http://makanipower.com/teamclick.html Don Montague,  Corwin Hardham, Geoffrey Dolan, Marko Cosic, Daniel Yum, Rob Nelson, Daniel Benoit, Mose O'Griffin, Abe Schneider, Jamie Schulte, Shakira Al-Musawir, Dante Siracusa, Damon Vander Lind, Kenny Jensen, Eric Chin, Munho Choi, Silvio Bruguda, Becker Van Niekerk. [Count: 18]
• http://www.makanipower.com/
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbwxF47x5ss       TechWebTV  March 10, 2008  Saul Griffith unplugged.
• Saul Griffith on kites as the future of renewable energy
• Application for patent  http://tinyurl.com/PatApplMarch2009BIMODALKITE  
  Saul Griffith at Green: Net 09 - An Engineer's Approach To Climate
• Save the Environment...Buy a Rolex? - Saul Griffith
• Saul Griffith: Climate Change Recalculated
• Is 100 MPG Ambitious Enough? - Saul Griffith
• Scott Parker     [ ] Is he still at Makani?      LinkedIn profile.  UAV wing build lead.
• Kites, Coal and Waxman-Markey
• Google Inc Nearer Goal of Renewable Energy Cheaper Than Coal
• http://techpulse360.com/2009/06/13/google-backed-kite-maker-makani-retools-for-low-altitude-flight/  Big change of focus to low altitude experiments. announced.  June 13, 2009, at FORUMopen 2009.
• San Francisco Chronicle ... 2007   Faces of Business 2007: Saul Griffith, wind energy entrepreneur
• Go Green: Higher Power
• Flying kite for power generation
• The Idea Machine
• WattzOn.com  
• ZeroPrestige
• Harvard Gazette note   The key to energy independence: Go fly a kite!   March 5, 2009

• Google Reveals Plan to Cut Solar Thermal Costs By a Quarter  
  BY Ariel Schwartz Thu Sep 10, 2009 at 11:31 AM

• Makani Power will present on November 5, 2009 at High Altitude Wind Power (HAWP) conference within the parent CSU Chico University conference on sustainability.

• Google Blows $5M More Into Makani’s High Altitude Wind   BY Craig Rubens
   

• "Joby & Makani's flygen concepts require camber or rotation reversing for high turbine efficiency as they do both thrust & power extraction without reversing airflow.

  Sky WindPower's concept won't have to camber or rotation reverse, merely change from generation to motoring blade pitch setting (from neg to pos pitch), as its turbines reverse airflow.     ds "  M495

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Former list  

Former intern: Alexander Cosic, past intern at Makani Power.  He is involved in ESMO project.    

• http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/projects/amorphous/6.978/final-papers/saul-final.pdf
• Saul Griffith, “Tools for designing programmatic self-assembling systems,” Final Project Paper, Biologically Motivated Programming Technology for Robust Systems, MIT Course 6.978, December 2002; http://www.swiss.ai.mit.edu/projects/amorphous/6.978/final-papers/saul-final.pdf
   
• HAWP conference 2009 : 
  • At the Thursday, Nov. 5:    11:00 AM:  Corwin Hardham Makani Power Makani Power: Crosswind Kite Power
  • FRIDAY MORNING STATE OF THE INDUSTRY AND RESEARCH
  • At the Friday: November 6:   9:00 AM:  Saul Griffith   
    Foundation Capital KEYNOTE: Building a High Altitude Wind Power Industry Segment
     
• http://www.ted.com/speakers/saul_griffith.html
• http://www.squid-labs.com/
• http://www.lowcosteyeglasses.net/
• http://www.instructables.com/
• http://makezine.com/
• PhD in Programmable Assembly and Self Replicating machines at MIT   by  Saul Griffith          CV
• http://ihouse.berkeley.edu/a/events/SaulGriffithLodestar.pdf
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_Griffith
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wattzon
• Growing Machines. MIT PhD Thesis, Program in Media Arts and Sciences, September 2004  
  http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~saul/PhD/index.html
• www.saulgriffith.com
• Folding MIT
• http://www.makanipower.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/IMG_70...
  http://www.makanipower.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/201006...
• http://apps.ycombinator.com/item?id=1526697

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