{"id":2054,"date":"2020-03-30T13:57:13","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T12:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/upgrade-pqm\/?p=2054"},"modified":"2020-03-30T13:59:02","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T12:59:02","slug":"fly-a-kite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/pqm\/2020\/03\/30\/fly-a-kite\/","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s fly a kite!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And now for something <em>really <\/em>different&#8230; Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"https:\/\/iopscience.iop.org\/article\/10.1088\/2058-7058\/33\/2\/28\">Letter to the Editor<\/a> published in the February issue of <em>Physics World<\/em>. It proposes a slightly different approach to Airborne Wind Energy (AWE) &#8211; the use of kites to generate electricity. This is definitely outside the Physics of Quantum Materials area of expertise &#8211; rather, it was written from the perspective of a hobbyist, who happens to also be a physicist, in response to <a href=\"https:\/\/physicsworld.com\/author\/margaret-harris\/\">Margaret Harris<\/a>&#8216; recent <a href=\"https:\/\/physicsworld.com\/a\/the-promise-and-challenges-of-airborne-wind-energy\/\">article on AWE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><em>From Jorge Quintanilla&#8217;s personal blog, <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/strongcorrelations\/\">blogs.kent.ac.uk\/strongcorrelations<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And now for something really different&#8230; Here&#8217;s a Letter to the Editor published in the February issue of Physics World. It proposes a slightly different approach to Airborne Wind Energy (AWE) &#8211; the use of kites to generate electricity. This is definitely outside the Physics of Quantum Materials area of expertise &#8211; rather, it was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":2057,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[592,568],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engagement","category-publications"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/pqm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/pqm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/pqm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/pqm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/pqm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2054"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/pqm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2073,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/pqm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2054\/revisions\/2073"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/pqm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/pqm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/pqm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/pqm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}