Jeffrey McLarty

I was just chatting with Robert Creighton, founder of WindLift Engine Company.  He’s looking for engineers and funding to get his wind kite power solution, off the ground .  He tells me that Larry Page has spent $40M investing in the space, and there are two other companies to watch - KiteGen and SkySails out of Italy and Germany.  Robert has two 8 kW prototypes and has sunk a quarter of a million into his business already.

He’ll be at CleanTech, in Boston, for the start of June.  Since Ariel Mutual funds is being dumb, I might go down and check out his work and the rest of the conference.

Check out 30 seconds into this video.