Dear Dave, Your absolutely right the number is 50,000 sq.ft. sorry about that. I had two thoughts really one is simply the loads involved, the other I was...
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Joe Faust
joe_f_90032
Jul 7, 2009 1:10 am
"might edit the typo out of the list archive" Posted messages cannot be edited. A workaround when wanted: An author may delete their own post and posted an...
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santos137@...
santos137
Jul 6, 2009 6:18 pm
Hi Chris (& Harry),  Excuse the long post, but the issues are fascinating & complex.  (You must mean 5000 sq meters or 50,000 sq ft, not 50,000 sq...
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harry valentine
harryc11
Jul 5, 2009 7:16 pm
Hi Dave & Chris, Your discussion provides insight into the wisdom behind the LadderMill . . . how to support the weight of large (and heavy) cables needed to...
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christopher carlin
christopher.m.carlin@...
Jul 5, 2009 5:48 pm
Dear Dave, I find the numbers that get bandied about here very interesting and may be about to draw an incorrect analogy but a big full rigged ship has about...
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dave santos
santos137
Jul 5, 2009 8:01 am
Hi Lou,  The Lifter Kite provides "passive control", the autonomous flight function, without avionics. Without the lifter the unstable sport kite would...
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Lou Groner
lgroner
Jul 5, 2009 2:21 am
What is the point of the lifter kite? Can the looping kite not also provide lift?...
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dave santos
santos137
Jun 29, 2009 6:40 am
Flying a generator is a popular AWE idea. Magenn, Sky Windpower, & Makani are major advocates. Brooks will remember small tethered generator-turbines i made &...
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dave santos
santos137
Jun 27, 2009 5:45 am
Hi folks,  Attached is a video clip of the looping sport-kite under a lifter-sled driving a tripod-tether linked to a hand-cranked generator. The video...
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santos137
Jun 23, 2009 7:48 am
"Standard"; AWE Solution Proven  Recently JoeF proposed a standard AWE design be developed that anyone anywhere could cobble together. It had to be safe,...
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santos137
Jun 15, 2009 4:30 pm
 An AWE Patent/IP Pool has a strong historic precedent. Tom Crouch in Wings; A History of Aviation; From Kites to the Space Age, explains how a Patent...
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Joe Faust
joe_f_90032
Jun 14, 2009 10:49 pm
The following article had not caught up with the change to lower altitude: Google Inc Nearer Goal of Renewable Energy Cheaper Than Coal ...
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harry valentine
harryc11
Jun 14, 2009 8:29 pm
How is SkyWindPower and the LadderMill group dealing with high-altitude operation? Harry To: airbornewindenergy@yahoogroups.com From: santos137@... Date:...
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santos137
Jun 14, 2009 5:02 pm
For 2 years KiteLab has insisted that Makani badly miscalculated its altitude targets. KiteLab's pointed critique, "The Stratosphere is a Harsh Mistress",...
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harry valentine
harryc11
Jun 13, 2009 7:04 pm
California restricts windmill towers in residential areas to an elevation of 30-feet (thirty). Allowing kites to fly at 150-feet is a definate improvement as...
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christopher carlin
christopher.m.carlin@...
Jun 13, 2009 5:29 pm
Dear Dave, I agree. KISS applies particularly in the early days of new technology applications. By the way from some aerospace experience I have a kite at...
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santos137@...
santos137
Jun 13, 2009 4:54 pm
Model Uncertainty characterized initial AWE research. All kinds of pet schemes emerged & one popular mantra was "high altitude" wind power, a prejudice based...
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Joe Faust
joe_f_90032
Jun 9, 2009 5:01 pm
Announcement: New page: AWE Classified Ads AWE http://www.energykitesystems.net/classifiedads/index.html Launching is just a beginning ......
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dave santos
santos137
Jun 5, 2009 3:50 pm
 Scott should be able to greatly clarify debate about whether aerospace UAV style AWE can soon meet real-world safety, reliability, & economic...
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santos137@...
santos137
Jun 4, 2009 4:05 pm
Switch grass is a dominant prairie grass native to North America. It has been shown superior to corn as a biofuel, thriving on marginal land with much less...
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Joe Faust
joe_f_90032
Jun 4, 2009 3:11 pm
4June2009 Link notice supplied by *Darin Selby <http://tinyurl.com/DarinSelby888AWE>* *News link...
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Dan Fink
danbob@...
May 27, 2009 9:31 pm
Joe, Dave, thanks for the kind words. I *do* see some specific and realistic applications here that I had not thought of, thanks to your replies. More...
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dave santos
santos137
May 27, 2009 4:31 pm
Two missing AWE solutions- A Traction Kite can sequentially pull the legs of a string tripod to generate energy with wind from any direction without resetting...
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Joe Faust
joe_f_90032
May 24, 2009 11:02 pm
Darin, Spring motor for aloft actions seems a great suggestion. I put a note on the attached drawing. DaveS' ballast is included in TipB. The server...
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Darin Selby
darin_selby@...
May 24, 2009 7:40 pm
Joe, after studying this picture diagram, I agree that it could be the solution to the kite generator evolution! The spring motor...
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dave santos
santos137
May 24, 2009 5:27 pm
Hi all,  While testing bird response to a realistic hawk delta kite the back stick fell out. The kite did not fall, but maintained stable flight at low...
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Joe Faust
joe_f_90032
May 24, 2009 3:35 pm
Yes, Darin. TwinD did not express "kytoon", only balloon. E Either type: Tangle can occur, if line and bas insufficent. That and other reasons move some...
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Darin Selby
darin_selby@...
May 24, 2009 2:17 pm
Can these two kytoons ever get tangled up, say in high, unpredictable winds? To: AirborneWindEnergy@yahoogroups.com From: joefaust333@... Date: Sat, 23...
Dan,  Thanks again for your expertise in fire fighting. Aviation is my background & it can be a blinding focus. More notes based on Web search &...
