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In addition, we hope to have piezoelectric strips along the outer sides of the kite wings, and to have the skin on the top of the kite covered in flexible solar panels. What are your inputs on this? Thank you.

Thank you for your input about putting our kite in the wind shadow of the turbines, CWatters. Can you give us any advice on where we should put the turbines instead?

I want to focus on a high-altitude because I read that at higher altitudes, there is a higher wind gradient that would produce more wind energy for my kite. Here are a few pictures that show where my team got the inspiration for the kite.

I created a model on autodesk inventor of a concept model kite that would stay in high altitudes and take in wind energy through the cone opening. Is there any advice you can give me about the aerodynamics of this model? (There are balloons that provide lift above the wings, and I want the...