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Google Buys Flying Wind Turbine Company Makani Power
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The search giant has extended its investments in green power by buying a California startup that deploys robot-piloted kites to generate electricity from wind.
Josh Dzieza
Published
May 28 2013
3:52PM EDT
Makani Power/Andrea Swenson Dunlap
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