Let the fossil fuels rest in peace | Guido Luetsch | TEDxTUHH

Wonder what’s happening these days with wind energy? Airborne Wind Energy is a renewable and promising alternative to fossil fuels. Listen to Guido Luetsch, executive director of the international Airborne Wind Energy Consortium, explain this promising new technology.

Guido Luetsch, born 1965, is married and has 2 children. With a master degree as business administrator of the international renowned University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, Guido started his business career at Kraft Foods. As Brand Manager, he developed new coffees and introduced them in various European countries. He was a member of the Environmental Task Force at Kraft Foods and hence signed responsible for starting sustainable projects reducing CO2-emission. As a serial entrepreneur, he founded several start-ups. Since 2006 Guido is working in the field of Airborne Wind Energy (AWE) where he became one of the worldwide leading experts. From 2007 – 2013 he was assigned as General Manager of a German AWE-company. He is the Executive Director of the international Airborne Wind Energy Consortium and has been elected as President of the German Airborne Wind Energy Association.

[giancarloabbate]

Good presentation and mainly all the reasonings in it are correct. I would add that one of the 50 or 60 companies engaged in this challenge, namely KiteGen in northern Italy, is in an advanced stage of the technological development of its 3 MW industrial machine. So, it is likely that we could see in quite a short time a real electric energy production from tropospheric wind.

[actionitem]

That is very exciting concept and I am one hundred percent for it. Question: what do you do when a storm comes through an airborne wind facility?

[martellodiallah]

I would like to know how much electric energy has been delivered worldwide to the grid by airborne devices during 2014.

[littlegravitas]

For the first time an alternative energy source is verifiably proven to be cheaper than the cheapest and possibly the dirtiest fossil fuel, what with both strip mining for extraction and smog chugging plants for conversion, coal. And unlike any other green energy there is virtually no place on 🌍 you couldn't create this infrastructure - right next to urban centres, not miles away or off shore or only in the hottest places on earth... Game changed.

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[rezonite]

Hah@! No shit? Makes you say to yourself, why didn't I think of that? So simple, yet genius.

[xkopp]

Every time I pee I generate energy. We all pee. Why is no one harnessing this enormous potential energy?! I am a geenyus for noticing this before anybody else!