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Google Increasing Staff in Makani Energy Kites Division
December 2nd, 2015
Via: Business Insider:
GoogleX is ramping up recruiting at Makani, hinting that the ambitious project to create “energy kites” that generate cheap wind power is moving closer to reality.
In the past few months, Google has posted more than 30 Makani job openings, and a recent posting on the company’s LinkedIn page boasts that the team is “growing rapidly.”
The division has said that its experimental technology can produce 50% more energy with 90% less materials than traditional wind turbines.
The 16 most recent postings on Google’s hardware engineering careers page advertise positions at Makani, including electrical engineer of avionics hardware, aerodynamicist, and offshore wind program manager.
Other postions hint that the project could be moving closer to releasing a real product. For example, Makani is looking for a sales engineer, to be the “customer-facing expert on Makani’s revolutionary new wind power technology as it’s presented to customers for the first time.”
Google acquired Makani in 2013, after investing $15 million in the startup several years before. It joined Google’s moonshot lab, Google X, and has remained within X even as Google segmented itself into stand-alone divisions under parent company Alphabet earlier this year.
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