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  • ice
    • icing
    • icing conditions
    • de-ice,  de-icing
    • anti-ice, anti-ice systems, anti-icing
    • hygroscopy
    • hydrophobe, hydrophobic
    • hydrophile, hydrophilic
    • accidents involving icing
    • AWES and ice
    • kite energy and ice
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  • ICOYC International Council of Yacht Clubs  http://www.icoyc.org/
  • idea, ideas, kite ideas
  • ideal,
    • the ideal kite
    • ideal conditions
    • the ideal kite system for a specific niche application
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  • IDS   Intelligent Depower System.  Cabrinha nomenclature.  
  • IEA   The International Energy Agency (IEA)
     


  • IEEE   pronounced Eye-triple-E  A non-profit organization, IEEE is the world's leading professional association for the advancement of technology.  Many of its members are providing solutions for energy kite systems. More than 375,000 members including nearly 80,000 student members in more than 160 countries.
     
  • IFO   Identified Flying Object
  • IFO Energy           Gábor Dobos    www.ifo-energy-unlimited.com
  • IFR       instrument flight rules                         wiki            AWE in clouds?  AWE at night?       Contrast: VFR visual flight rules
     
  • IHK  Berlin chamber of commerce (IHK)    
    Industrie- und Handelskammer zu Berlin (IHK Berlin)

     
  • Ikhana        The aircraft has been named "Ikhana" (ee-kah-nah), a Native American word from the Choctaw Nation meaning intelligent, conscious or aware.    Ikhana is an uninhabited aircraft system: Predator B unmanned aircraft system adapted for civilian missions purchased by NASA.

    IKAROS was launched by the H-IIA F17 from the Tanegashima Space Center at 6:58:22AM (JST) on May 21 2010.

  • IKO  International Kiteboarding Organization
  • imagination
  • impact
  • impact attenuation
  • impact cross section
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  • impedance
    • tether impedance
    • electrical impedance      wiki 
  • impulse,
    • initial impulse,
    • cyclic impulses
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  • IMS   kite inflator, which we sometimes refer to as the kite Inflation Management System (IMS)
     
  • IMU     inertial measurement unit
  • Independent Technology Assessment (ITA)
  • indoor flying of aircraft
  • indoor kiting
  • induction
  • induction generator
  • induction motor
  • industrial AWE
  • industrial AWECS
  • industrial HAWP
  • industrial kite
  • industrial kite systems
  • industrial kiting
  • industrial windpower
  • inertia 
  • inertial measurement unit (IMU)
    • MEMs gyroscopes
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  • inertial reference frame
     
  • inertia wheel     (reaction wheel)    wiki     Consider distinctions among flywheels.
     
  • inflatable
  • inflatable baton 
  • inflatable beam
  • inflatable beams
  • inflatable envelope
  • inflatables
  • inflatable wings
  • inflating
  • Inflatoplane
  • inflator
    • tools or machines that inflate inflatables.
    • kite inflator, which we sometimes refer to as the kite Inflation Management System (IMS)
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  • infrastructure    AWES7525
  • inlet and perhaps opposing outlets  on wings
  • insects            OurFolder
  • instability
  • installation venues
  • install
  • installers, AWECS installers, smallAWECS installer, largeAWECS installer,
  • installation
  • insulator
  • insurability of an AWECS or KES
  • insurance
  • intellectual property   (IP).  
    Consider for AWE community a Patent Pool, which see M164
  • interest
  • intermittency, wind intermittency
  • intermittent
  • intermittent kite energy
  • intermittency of wind
  • intermittent gearing
  • intermittent source     
  • intermittent wind energy
  • internal ratchet mechanism
  • Internet marketing of kite systems, of AWES, of energy kites, of sport kite systems, of hobby kite systems, of scientific kite systems, of purposeful kite systems, of kited wings, of kite solutions,
  • intrados and extrados,  [ intrado, extrado ]
    • http://www.thefreedictionary.com/intrados
    • intrados - the interior curve of an arch
      curve, curved shape - the trace of a point whose direction of motion changes
    • Intrados = lower skin
    • inner skin or intrados of the cylinder
    • http://scherrer.pagesperso-orange.fr/matthieu/english/f3ie.html
    • Mechanics dict.
    • On a wing that has an airfoil that is arched, then the curve on the underside is the intrados. Some extend the term to identify the skin that materializes that underside curve.
       
    • In architecture an intrados is the interior curve of an arch. The term is especially applied to the inner or lower curved face of the whole body of voussoirs taken together.
       
    • http://www.axelair.com/lexique,show,62,xname,intrados.html
      • Pour les voiles constituées de caissons. L'intrados est le dessous de la voile.
        L'extrados est le dessus de la voile.
    • A thin sheet curved convex up has an upper side and a lower side; the curve of the lower side is the intrados; some uses move further on the term and identify the material skin for that underside as the intrado or intrados. Similarly for the upper curve as extrados with some moving the term into a use that identifies the material skin of the curved item as the extrado or extrados.  
    • An idealized  curved line has extrados and intrados; such idealized line has no material skin.  A wing that is curved has a top curve and a lower curve; the curves are sometimes referred to as extrados and intrados, respectively. If material skins are used for those curves, some identify the material skin used as extrados and intrados, respectively. Dropping the "s" is done by some users: extrado or intrado, respectively.
    • The XXLite's upper surface curve is an idealized curve; the material forming he skin of that upper surface may by some users be called the extrados or extrado. The XXLite has two sectors to its airfoil in the lower region; the frontal sector of the airfoil in the lower region has a curve when loaded in flight; such curve is skinned using contiguous material that flows to the top surface; the skin on that lower surface frontal section may be referred by some users as the intrados or intrado of that wing for the frontal lower sector. Then the wing has a large aft lower curve that is the intrados of the wing for that larger aft section of the wing; the material skin of that aft intrados, if already specified as the skin of the extrados, then one may say that a second skin is not used for the aft sector of the intrados; some will say then that there is no intrados for that aft section of that wing; but indeed the curve is there and the skin is there; it is just that the same material skin is used for both the curves: the extrados and the intrados, if one neglects to see that the actual curves are actually finely distinct.  The ordinary goal of the distinctions is to sort that in the aft section of the wing, only one material sheet of cloth is used to effect both the extrados and intrados; that sheet of cloth has an upper side or upper surface and a lower side or lower surface; those surfaces have curves to them that are finely distinct.    For related matter, see KFm airfoils. Kline Fogleman airfoils.
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  • INVELOX      SheerWind  |   patent1   |   Daryoush Allaei   |   Pat2  |
  • invention
  • inventive kite                     |  patent kites would be a proper subset of inventive kites; strictly, some patent kites are not absolutely inventive kites, but have received some nod toward novelty in some patent office; a concept of locally inventive kite might resolve here.  |
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  • inversion (of mechanism)
     
  • inverse
  • inverse propeller
  • inverted kite    (e.g. in water, the paravane would be set to "fly" toward the bottom)    Patent
  • inverter


  • investment
  • inviscid flow   , ideal fluid,     wiki
     
  • involucrum   
  • ion, ions, ionization
  • ionocraft        wiki       
    See many videos in YouTube under "Lifter ion
    Claims of the device working in a vacuum have been disproved.
    Ionocraft require many safety precautions due to the high voltage required for their operation, and also the risk of premature death from heart or lung disease due to the inhalation of their ionized air product, ozone.
     
  • iPGS   innovative power generation system   (at UC Davis, California, USA; Professors Platzer and Sarigul‐Klijn)
     
  • IP    intellectual property
  • IPO      wiki/Initial_public_offering
  • IPP :: Innovative Partnerships Program     in NASA
  • Ippolito, Massimo      Founder of KiteGen project
  • IPR  intellectual property rights
  • IREF   infinite range electric flight
    • AWES charge lofted batteries; flying aircraft swipe the charge to their ultracapacitors and then fly to the next recharge AWES charge station
    • AWES charge lofted batteries; flying aircraft meet the station to exchange depleted batteries for charged batteries.
    • AWES loft fuel; aircraft come by to refuel; station such lofted AWES fuel stations on popular or heavy-payload routes.
    • Flight of the Century (planning 2012)
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  • IRIS Integrated Risk Information System         Ref1  
  • irrigation kite
  • irrigation kiting        M140
  • ISR   intelligences, surveillance, and reconnaissance  (part of option purposes for kite systems and AWECS)
  • ISA   International standard atmosphere         wiki
  • ISAF    International Sailing Federation (ISAF)
    • http://www.sailing.org
    • The ISAF Council voted that Kiteboarding will replace windsurfing for the men's and women's board events for Rio 2016  Olympic Sailing Competition
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  • Isentropic Energy Converter 
  • ISO (the International Organization for Standardization)  ISO (International Organization for Standardization) is the world’s largest developer of voluntary International Standards.
     
  • ISOAWESTC    open provisional technical committee working on standards potential acceptable to ISO for AWES industry matters.  ISOAWESTC was born on Dec. 6, 2012.
     
  • Isotropy         wiki     directionally dependent.   See differently: anisotropy
    • In kite energy:  wings face apparent wind (anisotropic), or wings can be radially symmetrical (isotropic)
    • Vast isotropic arrays working multiple tethers is getting high plaudits.
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  • ISR     intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance
  • Israel Ludlow       multiple forms of manned kiting and more


 

  • intermittency of electrical production  (variability of source is also a parameter)
    • KiteGen reports solution  M3572  with a supercapacitor buffer
    • Just how smooth is electrical production to be?
    • Kite farms will smooth production and feed to grids
    • Electricity Production with Intermittent Sources
      of Energy by 
      Stefan Ambec and Claude Crampes,  March 24, 2010.
    • efficient mix of intermittent sources
    • compatibility of intermittent sources of energy with market
      mechanisms
       
  • IRENA         International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)          wiki
  • ITCZ   Intertropical Convergence Zone        
  • iQuad team     Art1
  • IWT  industrial-scale wind turbines (conventional wind energy (CWE)).

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