Welcome to WindLift
WindLift, LLC was founded in April of 2006 to develop wind power technologies that will
reduce the cost and pollution of pumping water and oil. The company has recently located to Durham, NC and plans to taste our latest designs at Kitty Hawk, NC this summer and fall.
Contact:
Robert Creighton
WindLift, LLC
Durham, NC
robert.creighton at gmail.com
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Rob TV spot looked great – “Hawk” is looking like a champ.
Comment by Drew HIbbard — June 19, 2007 #
This is a remarkable business idea with great potential to help future generations and those in need today. Great vision, congratulations!
Comment by Alejandro Martinez — June 19, 2007 #
Looking good Rob, when can I get one ?
Comment by Dan — June 19, 2007 #
Rob – the video is great, looks like the concept is making a lot of progress! Glad to be witnessing the idea’s development
Comment by Scott Daigger — June 19, 2007 #
We hope to have a beta version of the pumping machine for sale next January. We will announce here on the website details on how to get your own WindLift pumping machine when they are available.
Comment by rcreighton — June 21, 2007 #
Hello Robert,
As an avid kitesurfer, inventor, and web designer, I must say well done! I am working on a wind alert system now and would love to talk to you about helping on your project.
From engineering, investing, to web design/applications, I really would like to help. I believe in what you are doing.
Thank you,
Sean Hynes
Comment by Sean Hynes — July 22, 2007 #
Rob, the sites looking great!
Comment by Tim Gill — December 27, 2007 #
please send info
see http://www.energyxperts.biz
Comment by Dave Redick — June 16, 2008 #
[...] WindLift LLC is trying to develop kites that harness wind energy. [...]
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Is this a part time company, or are you doing this full time?
Comment by Rick Gratton — June 24, 2008 #
I am doing this half-time (i.e. 12 hours/day). Unfortunately, I need to sleep, eat, and kite-board.
Comment by rcreighton — July 19, 2008 #
I think you have a fine idea and hope the story I am telling here will help you keep going.
I was in elementary school in Newport News VA. There was this guy who people thought was kind of crazy who on weekends was flying these funny kites out in back of my school.
They were funny looking trianglular things made from some sort of flexible foil-like stuff. He used a shortened fishing rod and reel to handle those little kites. And he would get then up several thousand feet into the air where and us kids would wonder at this man looking through his binoculars at his neat kites so far up in theair that they might get hit by a passing airplane.
If you haven’t figured it put yet. the man’s name was Rogallo and he was inventing the parafoil and the bat kite in his spare time. The funny foil was some of the newly invented mylar aluminized fabric.
I understand that for a dozen years or so he got $1.00 for each bat kite sold in the world and he gave the US government free use of his invention.
Please continue to be inspired by your vision and don’t worrry if some of the people around you think you are a bit “odd.”
Comment by edbachmann — October 6, 2008 #
Hi Robert -
What a great idea! We’d love to help you with your marketing initiatives. Designworks is a small nimble marketing services agency that’s gone through green business certification through the County of Santa Clara, CA and we are focused on helping green technology firms successfully market their products and services to the masses. Check us out at http://www.design-works.com and web design and flash animation work we’ve done for another green tech company at http://www.ecospheretech.com
Comment by Julee Klein — October 29, 2008 #
Long live WindLift kite engine.
We are now fully integrating your good workds:
http://josephfaust.com/hgh/KITESA/FAQelectric/index.html
Comment by Joe Faust — January 1, 2009 #
Rob,
I read an email from Dave Santos that appears to be saying that your company would like to host a number of other companies — presumably mine as well — that would apply for grants from NIST under an umbrella that your company would provide. Is that true. It is my intent to make tethered wing arrays with autopilots that will be able to extract power from winds about 400m above the ground that corresponds to the peak energy density of low level jets that pass over the Great Plains. Let me know if I can participate as well, and if so how? Dave Santos has been the king of the micro kites. I wish to be king of mammoth autopiloted kites where they and their development processes are made dirt cheap and yet aerodynamically efficient.
Nice to contact you Robert. I’ve heard you name come and go regularly lately.
I was the Project Leader at the Flight Research Institute (FRI) which was a non-profit offshoot of Boeing. I lead a team that consisted of the retiree Chief of Product Development at Boeing and a retired Supervisor of Engineering at Boeing. We developed concepts whereby man will one day be able to fly without fuel by tacking in the air alone with an inflated wing at high altitude faster moving air tethered to a wing at low altitude in slower moving air. We also developed concepts whereby windpower could one day be harnessed from the heart of low level jets at 400mm above the ground in the Great Plains. At that height they would be able to tap into winds that are about 5 times more powerful that the largest and most powerful wind turbines can today. There are many other applications for this tethered wing technology, but I will not go into that now.
I look forward to hearing from you directly.
I wish you and your organization well.
Kind regards,
Wayne German
Comment by Wayne German — January 4, 2009 #