http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/news/2822/kites-could-power-world-100-times-over

excerpt:

"Archer and Caldeira looked at both wind speed and air density at
different altitudes, concluding that extraordinary amounts of energy
exist above Japan, eastern China, the eastern coast of the U.S.,
southern Australia and north-eastern Africa.

Kite-driven generators

Average wind power densities in these locales "are greater than 10
kilowatts per square metre. This is unthinkable near the ground, where
even the best locations have usually less than one kilowatt per square
metre," said Archer. New York clocked up a whopping wind power density
of 16 kilowatts per square metre, the study found."

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