by: Andrew Ward, Energy Editor
Royal Dutch Shell has teamed up with Eon and Schlumberger to invest in a new form of wind power that uses high-altitude kites to harness energy.
The Anglo-Dutch oil group and its partners will each take a stake in Kite Power Systems as the UK start-up races for leadership of a technology that has also attracted interest from Google.
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THREE of the biggest names in the energy industry, led by Royal Dutch Shell, have backed a business that generates electricity from flying kites.
Kite Power Systems (KPS) will use the £5 million investment from Shell, E.ON, and Schlumberger to establish a research and test facility on the Ministry of Defence’s West Freugh site near Stranraer, after it received the world’s first planning consent for such a site in October.
The firm, which was established in 2011, is one of several start-ups racing to take leadership of a sector that Microsoft founder Bill Gates has said could be the “magic solution” for renewable energy.
The technology uses kites tethered to generators on the ground to capture and store energy, making it cheaper to deploy and operate than conventional wind turbines.
Internet giant Google has also backed the technology, investing $15 million in US start-up Makani Power through its Google X research and development (R&D) arm.
Shell’s investment in KPS comes through its venture capital arm Shell Technology Ventures, which will take a stake in the company, which has changed its name from Kite Power Solutions.
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Royal Dutch Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. Shell had a close relationship with the Nazis during and after the reign of Sir Henri Deterding, an ardent Nazi, and the founder and decades long leader of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. His burial ceremony, which had all the trappings of a state funeral, was held at his private estate in Mecklenburg, Germany. The spectacle (photographs below) included a funeral procession led by a horse drawn funeral hearse with senior Nazis officials and senior Royal Dutch Shell directors in attendance, Nazi salutes at the graveside, swastika banners on display and wreaths and personal tributes from Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goring. Deterding was an honored associate and supporter of Hitler and a personal friend of Goring.
Deterding was the guest of Hitler during a four day summit meeting at Berchtesgaden. Sir Henri and Hitler both had ambitions on Russian oil fields. Only an honored personal guest would be rewarded with a private four day meeting at Hitler’s mountain top retreat.
IN JULY 2007, MR BILL CAMPBELL (ABOVE, A RETIRED GROUP AUDITOR OF SHELL INTERNATIONAL SENT AN EMAIL TO EVERY UK MP AND MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS: 
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