No, it would not work. The tensile force is going to go up so high that you&#x27;d have to overdesign it to the point of being impractical for normal use and even then it would have to be made out of un-obtanium. If you compute the forces in a hurricane acting on any appreciable surface area acting first on the internal structure of the kite (to transfer the force to the tether attachment point), then to the tether itself (and hurricane winds change direction and strength very rapidly) and finally from the tether to the ground station (with the edge in contact with a gimball (sp?) so the kite can rotate around the attachment point) you&#x27;re looking at something that is no longer economically feasible or something so heavy that it will absorb a fair amount of the power generated just to stay aloft.<p>Hurricanes will happily destroy structures many times stronger than this kite that are anchored in concrete, will blow 30 ton trucks over and in general are a menace. To harvest their power is akin to trying to set up an electrical plant that is exclusively powered by lightning or solar flares.<p>Yes, there is power there, no, we have no practical way of harvesting that power, the best we can do is to try to either get out of the way or to shed it in a way that it does not do damage.<p>The events are too rare, to unpredictable and too powerful to be practically harvestable.