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My notes:

• What to do with that mechanical energy gained by flying AWECS?
  AWECS-converted wind energy--mechanical energy--
  can be then be converted to do special works:
   
  1. Pump fluids (water from deep well, from buried tank to pond or lake or river, from low reservoir to high reservoir or lake, from parts of a hyro-energy battery, )
  2. Turn electric generator shafts to make electricity for small or large circuits
  3. Saw wood
  4. Grind grain
  5. Move people and things from one place to another
  6. Provide recreational high swings
  7. Mix fluids, feed, concrete
  8. Lift people and objects up into the sky for stay or drop (sky diver practices, recreation hang glider launching)
  9. Drive an elevator to lift people up and down to observation perches, to their sky home, to sky restaurant, to fishing decks, to bungee-launch points, to sky fishing deck
  10. Generate sound
  11. Generate heat
  12. Pull ships and other vehicles,
  13. Pull underwater objects (sensors, hydroelectric turbines, nets, debris catchers, ...)
  14. Pull railed vehicles
  15. Shake containers of stones for tumbling off the stone's rough edges
  16. Provide ladder to the sky for purposes of recreation
  17. Pull people, things, and masses uphill
  18. Hold up fences which fences can be used for many reasons (provide slope lift to allow slope-soaring gliders to travel from point A to point B, ...)
  19. Extract logs from difficult spaces
  20. Extract rescued persons in need from places
  21. Give recreational rides high up in the sky
  22. Pump water up to be sprayed over properties, villages, cities, crops, animals,
  23. Pump up seed slurry to be sprayed out over hillsides, lands,
  24. Drive fish bait and lift back fish catches
  25. Pull recreating human-operated kiteboards, land carts, snow boards, skis, kiteboats, skates, grass boards, sleighs, trikes, etc.
  26. Tow cargo ship from point A to point B.
  27. Bring supplies upt to SkyHut or SkyHome
  28.  Fetch lunch and carry it to high tree worker.
  29. Fly hung SHF into mid-stream.
  30. Carry tree worker up to the top of the tree...saving his climbing.
  31. SAF attached to string , string attached to kite, SAF underwater then dragged on water then airborne
  32. lifting shingled up on roofs with heavy lifter kite with a controlled vertical line
  33. Pulley up mountain
  34. Ski lift
  35. K2 next
  36. Rough:  Cable-skyway held by AWECS. Travel long distances using changing catenary sections.
      wheel in kite, semi collapsible, Bernoulli effect around mountains must be tricky
  37. Check out SolidWorks Finite Element analysis; was not impressed
      but keeping open mind Sent at 11:35 AM on Tuesday
  38. Reel in semi-collapsible kite to bring things down mountain;
      the full blown kite takes objects up mountain:
      one string one pulley, winch at base acts as genny also.
      Four miles to top of mountain from base means kite height potential is also four miles up and down range
       
  39.  Tuesday, 15 February 2011 Have the kite hold a drop line. Swing on the drop line. Climb the drop line. Jump up and down hanging from the drop line. JpF
  40. Wicking tether: wick water from above gathering to uses below.
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Message in group on 2Feb2010   M1048

Shake, rattle, roll, etc. Then what?
First level. Secondary levels. Applications

Dave Culp suggested  by careful estimating that 20% of world-energy from wind could be
obtained by installing smartly traction by AWECS  of the kite type into marine-vehicle movement sector. 
He indicated that the fastest way to impact energy savings in the world by AWECS is to use
the first-level mechanical energy for direct tugging of marine vehicles to save on fossil-fuel consumption. 
That is, first put up an AWECS to gain mechanical energy from the wind;next: use that mechanical energy in another choice:
tug a boat.

Dave Santos has a deep text tending to usher an age of tethered aviation
and perhaps living in the sky via AWECS. In the text are scores of specialized applications.

Probably each member of this forum has a list of uses of the mined mechanical energy from AWECS
that might even be guarded or kept under wraps for one reason or another. Let's get all such into
a list for all.

Trans-fusion AWECS applicaitons may have long-term potenial impact on life on earth.

AWECS convert wind energy to mechanical energy. Include the hydro analogues in paravane systems.  
That is first level activity.  The first level shows itself in the parts of the AWECS system being
shaken, vibrated, stretched, pulled, turned, rotated, compressed, expanded, rattled, tensed, etc.

What to do with that mechanical energy? 
There are choices in the second level of activity.
It may well be valuable to have a comprehensive list of second-tier activity choices.  And third-level, fourth level, etc.
At each conversion there is some cost, but it all may serve well for niche needs.  
Some examples: 

• Let the rotation of a rotating part drive an electric generator in the sky.
• Tow a cargo ship from point A to point B.
• Let a turning part drive an endless loop to the ground.
• Let the moved left-to-right action give a recreational ride to a vacating person: left move through the sky,
  then right move through the sky. Fun. Perhaps the riding person will do this instead of drive an oil-based jet ski.
• Have  a turning part drive sound-making bangs aloft to scare birds. Perhaps this would increase crop harvests.
• etc.
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Post your ideas  in forum an/or send to Notes@energykitesystems.net   

or in AWE Sector: Use the data-entry form configured for direct web posting at
http://www.energykitesystems.net/0/Applications/index.html 
where a collection is being amassed in preparation for forming 
an individual design-development-and-tracking file for each application.
Applications receiving most interest will be given first attention.

One objective is to capture potential game changer applicaitons where the game
may be in  nomadic, individual, micro-to-free-flight, or world-surrounding sectors.