{"id":14,"date":"2023-01-20T15:36:53","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T15:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.kitepunk.com\/?p=14"},"modified":"2023-01-20T15:36:53","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T15:36:53","slug":"minimal-kite-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kitepunk.com\/?p=14","title":{"rendered":"Minimal Kite Power"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The essence of kitepunk, as I imagine it. Simple, a little slap-dash, and eye-opening as to possibilities. I can&#8217;t judge whether it&#8217;s efficient, or in any way useful, but dang if it isn&#8217;t cool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"looping foil, pumping air\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OwwLmRjRar0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Compressed air particularly appeals to me as an alternative to batteries. Manufacturing airtight vessels and seals isn&#8217;t exactly primitive tech, but it&#8217;s easier than battery chemistry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, props to the videographer for so succinctly summarizing how the setup works in only 12 seconds of video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The essence of kitepunk, as I imagine it. Simple, a little slap-dash, and eye-opening as to possibilities. I can&#8217;t judge whether it&#8217;s efficient, or in any way useful, but dang if it isn&#8217;t cool. Compressed air particularly appeals to me as an alternative to batteries. Manufacturing airtight vessels and seals isn&#8217;t exactly primitive tech, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kitepunk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kitepunk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kitepunk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kitepunk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kitepunk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kitepunk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kitepunk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions\/18"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kitepunk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kitepunk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kitepunk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}