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Testing and evaluating the BAT
Altaeros Energies tests and evaluates its novel Buoyant Airborne Turbine -- or the BAT -- prototype at Loring Airforce Base in Maine. The BAT can reach 2,000 feet (600 meters), where wind speeds are faster and have five to eight times greater power density.
[Research supported by U.S. National Science Foundation grant IIP 1248528.]
Learn more in the NSF Discovery story Floating wind turbines bring electricity where it's needed. (Date image taken: 2007; date originally posted to NSF Multimedia Gallery: Jan. 28, 2016)
Credit: Altaeros Energies
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