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August 2009
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Magenn Power, Inc.

DIY AWE

Go Green: Higher Power

Africa :: local power needs: Big opportunity for AWE.

Simplest AWE yet: Darin Selby See-Saw.

Selby See-Saw           Darin Selby    See Dave Santos' version in video mpg.

Xerces Blue, the non-profit organization

[Featuring rotating two-kite petals in various arrangements for reel-out power phase and de-powered reel-in phase.]

See also: Patent application.

MonoFoil.com/boat/videos.php

Changes appear at the Makani Power web site.

kitefestival.com/index-wsikf.html

• How to use kite killers
•  

   "Below are links to recent (dinky) DIY KISS AWE demo jpeg & mpeg, a Membrane Wing-Mill from a clothes hanger, an A frame tether, a bit of tape, some string, a spring N-scale load cell, & a tree."  DS
     http://www.EnergyKiteSystems.net/DaveSantos/LiftedWorker/aframe.jpg
     http://www.EnergyKiteSystems.net/DaveSantos/LiftedWorker/aframe.mpg

     
      Movie in .mpg format:  wsikfwing.mpg
      [Also in .avi format: kiss128.avi    (about 3 mb) ]

This second generation KiteLab "Super"HotWing flew well "right off the bat" & was marveled at by hundreds of spectators at WSIKF 2009. Its soft ultra low mass means it is safe around people & it flew without problems.

Keywords- Looping Wing under a Pilot Lifter, HotWing, Looping Kite,

JoeBen Bevirt
Joby Energy in Santa Cruz

Challenger: Robert Thresher, an engineer at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado.  
[[ED: What will it take to make him an AWE believer?]]

Drachen Foundation
3131 Western Ave. M321
Seattle, WA 98121

../DaveSantos/WSIKF2009August FlyGen

Modular Pumped Storage  August 6, 2007

30 January 2007      First International Workshop on
Modelling and Optimization of Power Generating Kites
(KITE-OPT 07)

(ED: Great use for a chain-saw carry case!)     
SpragGen demo unit by Dave Santos, August 2009

The case is the weatherization to protect from rain, dew, etc

Cooperative IP Disclosure:  Gearless AWE system   see M231

Bill Gates might slow the winds.
However, AWE will slow winds also.

 Kite Sails & Transport Ships
Monday, 24 August 2009 Trevor Williams

• The LC might be easier to achieve than one might first think. Consider a Tipping Boom system with short tether in a nearly no-wind site; the wind picks up a bit and the kite drives the generator. Let 700 hours pass and presto, the AWE system could be said to have been running.    What say you?  JoeF
   
• Yeah, the "Lang Prize" (a nice beer?) can be easy using structure or terrain. I've done membrane wing mills for days at a time & took them down still working.
  
  You've hit on a good variant, a kite on a pole (winged wafting lever) held up in calm, in a storm it simply bends over like a palm tree. much less structure & tall mass.
  
  The latest "tethister" tri-tether works well with trees. You simly anchor a line off from the top of the tree a & tap the center of it to a spragged generator. A tree is a dissipative aero/mass dampener array, not very efficient for extracting power, so only small devices are really practical      DaveS

Baseload Energy, Inc. 

• Cook food by kite-canopy solar; electric; friction;
• Dry clothes by kiting.....several ways: hang and fly, electric, solar heat,
• Travel via kite-gained energy directly or  indirectly.
• Work in cooler air aloft rather than in the very hot below.  Office in the sky...
•  

Fun and important opportunity in AWE:  
Advance the glossary!!!!!!   What are we missing?   And descriptions and illustrations are invited:

Kite-Energy Glossary
... being built since January 7, 2009.
Anyone is invited to help build an effective kite energy glossary for all   Send to News@energykitesystems.net

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

• Gary Dean Ragner  
  Patent number: 6523781    Filed date: Aug 29, 2001
  Issued: Feb 25, 2003     Application number: 9/941,337      Axial-mode linear wind-turbine. A wind harnessing system using a plurality of self supporting airfoil kites 50 for production of useful power.

• stable single line kite (SSLK) AWE.      In AWE, the use of stable single line kite (SSLK) forms a family of explorations.  One branch of  SSLK AWE uses the reel-in and reel-out method. Another branch of SSLK AWE uses controls on the SSLK that drives a cart-generator windward or a railed cart generator from wind window side to side. Controls may be RC or robotic reaction servos.  Another use in SSLK AWE is where the SSLK is the lifter kite for wingmills, kitemotors.   Another is the use of the SSLK in established highly turbulent sites where the air's turbulence is mined for actions toward generating electricity or pumping.   . Another branch of SSLK AWE regards moving goods and people in transport rather than using other fuels.  Log lifting with a SSLK is in this branch.  Also, attempts to use SSLK to tap atmospheric potential difference (Ben Franklin) is in history.   Etc. Many branches.    Notes are welcome:  Notes@EnergyKiteSystems.net
• SSLKAWE  stable single-line-kite airborne wind energy

KiteShip video on a news spot:

Jeremy Walker talking:

Inventor: Gaylord G. Olson
Aerial wind power generation system and method

US Pat.: 7188808
Filed: Feb 27, 2006
Issued: Mar 13, 2007
Application number: 11/307,890

DaveS notes with significant heads' up: "A problem with the "reversed" control vs. power is that efficient control is primarily information, not power, so control channels are weak compared to power channels. So a telephone or radio link, say, is a very poor power line.

If a quad kite were to run power via variable line forces it would be weak & complex compared to raw traction force."

OPEN for further comment from All.                            Notes@EnergyKiteSystems.net

•  AWE Programming       

• SSLKAWE

Flying kite for power generation

Lighter than air wind energy conversion system utilizing a rearwardly ...

 William R. Benoit

Patent number: 4350899
Filed: Oct 24, 1980
Issued: Sep 21, 1982

[ED: This is an example of a stable single-line kite ==albeit with the LTA kytoon emphasis== with generator in air.]

And his:

[ED: Charge agent may be AWE. ]

Comment: That writer has not factored in AWE.  AWE is not mature; AWE is gestating. AWE will be born and will operate at many levels with many methods from tiny to huge. Much AWE will be independent of major grids; yet there will be AWE feeding national and even international super grids. AWE Intermittency will be handled well; indeed, there will be some AWE installations that will be 100% non-intermittent; this will be news to wind energy analysts.   JoeF                       
Other comments are invited: Notes@EnergyKiteSystems.net   or AirborneWindEnergy group.

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