Abstract
Abstract In January 2020, a rumor from California in the United States reached researchers and entrepreneurs in Europe, a thriving hub for the small, mostly trans-Atlantic field of engineering research and development called airborne wind energy (AWE): Alphabet, American technology giant Google’s parent company, was quietly closing down Makani, the AWE subsidiary it had nurtured into the world’s most advanced, visible, and well-funded enterprise designing and building tethered flying machines—kites in AWE parlance—intended ultimately to produce megawatts of wind energy.
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