Challenges

• What if the line breaks?
   
• What can go wrong?  Solutions?
             
• Atmospheric electrical potentials at various altitudes in various weather changes?
   
• Final cost of the energy when all system parts and operations are considered?
   
• Safety?            Kites by Gomberg
   
• Nanotech materials and devices will continue to impact possibilities in generating electricity from kite systems.
   
• Blocking or preventing the return sector of the Savonious rotor from receiving drag; allow only the driving upper part of the rotor to be driven by the wind on the Magenn system.
   
• Superconductivity
   
• Are there ways to use kite systems to practically use atmospheric electricity?
   
• As nanotech materials permit very low-leak kytoons to loft hung generators, then more can happen.
   
• Demonstrations
   
• Compare demonstrated systems
   
• Compare successful systems with competing technologies
   
• Airspace restrictions, collision with kite lines,
   
• Double purposing kite systems with surveillance camera or communications antennae
   
• Interfacing with extant electrical grids
   
• Having kytoons self-process their own hydrogen for buoyancy maintenance for high endurance of the lifted system
   
• Bringing in the best of nanotech materials to achieve low leak in kytoon buoyancy gases
   
• Demonstrating wins of kite systems to decision makers
   
• Extracting energy from wind changes things; using that harvested energy changes things. What could be the net effects of harvesting large amounts of energy from the wind and then using that energy?
   
• When will a kite-energy installation win the attention of AWEA ?
   
• When will a kite-energy installation supply electricity for 100+ homes and in what nation will this occur?  
   
• When will the first hydrogen barge arrive to port to off-load the hydrogen made at sea via kite systems?
   
• Icing of kites and kite lines?
   
• At-kite manufacturing of hydrogen gas from air moisture for use of the hydrogen gas to recharge the buoyancy of hydrogen-based kytoon lifters of energy-generation kite systems?  Getting the mass-cost down for such hydrogen generator...?
   
• Single-loop kite line ... with the loop line rotating continuously  as the kite rotates the loop ?
   
• Kite systems collecting water for drinking?  Potentials?
   
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