To effectively gather electricity from wind power, you need a strong breeze going. Along those lines, a company called KiteGen Research figures that wind currents only get strong the higher you go — so why not just go up to 2,600 feet?
It kind of comes off as an idea you'd see in a Pixar movie — or even straight out of a child's mind — but KiteGen has been using 200-foot-square kites hovering at 2,600 feet in the air to generate electricity, according to Popular Science: "As the kite's tether unspools, it spins an alternator that generates up to 40 kilowatts.
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