{"id":338296,"date":"2020-02-20T11:39:50","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T06:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=338296"},"modified":"2020-02-20T11:39:50","modified_gmt":"2020-02-20T06:09:50","slug":"alphabet-cuts-cord-on-power-generating-kite-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/alphabet-cuts-cord-on-power-generating-kite-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Alphabet cuts cord on power-generating kite business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Francisco: Google-parent Alphabet is shutting down a unit devoted to using high-tech kites to tap into wind energy for electricity, the chief of the team said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Makani became a &#8220;moonshot&#8221; project in a special Alphabet X lab when the startup was acquired seven years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The unit was turned into an independent business last year to see if it could fly on its own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Francisco: Google-parent Alphabet is shutting down a unit devoted to using high-tech kites to tap into wind energy for electricity, the chief of the team said on Tuesday. Makani became a &#8220;moonshot&#8221; project in a special Alphabet X lab when the startup was acquired seven years ago. The unit was turned into an independent business last year to see if it could fly on its own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-338296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}