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September 2009
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The registration fee for the HAWP 2009 will include the fee for the initial portion of HAWP that takes place at the This Way to Sustainability Conference (TWTS) in the Bell Memorial Union at California State University at Chico. Transportation will be available from TWTS to the Cleantech Innovation Event Center at the Energy Farm in Oroville where the remainder of the HAWP 2009 Conference is being hosted. Several meals will be provided. Registration for the HAWP Conference will open near the end of September at the www.HAWPConference.com    A several hour block of time has been allotted to offer an opportunity for other researchers and companies who wish to present at the conference. There will be a method of submission made available for abstracts of these 15-20 minute presentation proposals.  Attending so far: press, venture capitalists, open-source AWE designers and closed-source business representatives. 

Conference: High Altitude Wind Power (HAWP)
Anticipated attendees,  so far,  at a coming November 5 and 6, 2009, in Chico and Oroville California conference first annual High Altitude Wind Power Conference:   The HAWP attendees will be invited to hear presentations and take part in discussions; the activity will be in two venues, first as part of the This Way to Sustainability V Conference November 5-8, 2009; after HAWP presentations on November 5th from 10:00 AM-12:00 noon, attendees will move to an  event Center in Oroville, to be declared soon on a website where registration may occur online.

• PJ Shepard, Technical Marketing Engineer, Sky WindPower, Oroville CA

• Dr. Cristina Archer

• So far mentioned  presenters and attendees:

  • Cristina Archer

  • Ken Caldeira

  • Makani Power  via  Saul Griffith  and Pierre Rivard and Corwin Hardham

  • Magenn Power via Anthony J. Asterita and Fred Ferguson

  • Joby Energy via JoeBen Bevirt  and Archan Padmanabhan

  • Sky WindPower via Len Shepard

  • WindLift via  Robert Creighton    

  • Sequoia Automation's KiteGen project by Massimo Ippolito

  • Michael Hennessey,  President California Campus Northwest Lineman College

  • Adel Ghandakly,  Chairman & Professor Dept. of Engineering & Computers, CSU, Chico

  • Dave Santos, speaker

  • Dave Culp

  • Wayne German

  • Joe Faust, speaker

  • Press

  • Venture capitalists

  • Open-source AWE developers

  • Closed-source AWE developers

  • Other presenters may still contact  PJ Shepard, Sky WindPower, Oroville CA 95965

  News notes about the conference:

  • Wind power conference set for Central Valley

  •  

   

 KiteLab is now a partner of GVEP,
a major UK charity supporting alternative energy equity
in the developing world.

http://www.gvepinternational.org/  

[ED: So far, at least two of our AWE community have become partners in GVEP.]

IMAGES

Abstract:

An airborne electricity producing generator powered by wind at high altitude. A gas filled balloon keeps the turbines and other apparatus afloat. Connection with the ground is with tethers that also prevent the apparatus from floating freely and conduct electricity, thereby bringing the electricity produced to ground based transformers. Computer controls the position, direction, tilt and height of the apparatus depending on wind direction and speed.

HighestWind, LLC.

Both:  "Highest Wind"  and "HighestWind"

Tether scope?   Failure safety?  When wind is too much or too little?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_rights

• AWE surfaces as converters of solar energy for purpose of nearly autonomous self-erection of kytoon lifter kite system where the electricity converts ambient atmospheric moisture to hydrogen to fill the kytoon both for launching and then maintaining gas pressure.
   
• Aloft SSLK uses solar energy to charge small aloft battery used for smart controlling kite pathing of the AWE system (ground-stationed generator).
   
• Backup field electricity source for AWE arrangement.
   
• Hybrid AWE where generation of electricity comes from both the mechanical kite sector as well as the kite's surface solar-energy conversion sector.
   
• Living quarters in the sky for AWE ranger is with solar-energy electricity supply.
   
• ???

• Surveillance
• Communications antenna or relay point in a constellation
• Wildlife photographic census
• Ranger's home in the sky.
• Hang glider launching
• Vacation suite in the sky
• Post in a serial transportation system
• Potable water maker (capture atmospheric moisture and return the water for drinking to ground)
• Visual advertising messages
• Thrill ride
•  

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Kite Personalities - Bill Lockhart
A Tribute to a Dear Friend and Kitemaker

Beloved Father of Hang Gliding Dies

Francis Rogallo, 1912-2009

• LTA kytoon with venturi used for aloft generation of electricity
• "tethered underwater current turbine energy generator"
• "lighter-than-water, tethered, sea-current turbine generator"
• Application number: 11/830,769
  Publication number: US 2008/0048453 A1
  Filed: Jul 30, 2007

   

  [ED: LTA EKS with generator aloft. Application looks also to LTW underwater-EKS version.]
   

   

Patent number: 4251040
Filed: Dec 11, 1978
Issued: Feb 17, 1981
 

Patent number: 4166596
Filed: Apr 28, 1978
Issued: Sep 4, 1979
 

1. Dan Parker    
2. How might Parker's direction be employed for airborne wind energy systems?   
   
   At first he seemed only ground-bound;
   then he flashed on AWE lifting.... adding airborne to his tools:
   On September 5, 2009, Dan announced that he is furthering his use of his devices into AWE via lifter-kites and torsion-shaft methods.   M249   And he has started SpiralAirfoil Airborne Division
    
3. Clarifying sketch by Dan Parker on September 7, 2009.
   Transmission line is not shown from the genny.  Click thumbnail.

KiteLab Ilwaco Cooperative IP Disclosure

A "square sailed" single-skin "play wing", possibly the most ancient of kites, with four or more lines, is a good AWE/traction alternative to proprietary three line single skin kites, for high scaling potential with added benefits, including increased performance. The leading edge can be made luff resistant by sawtooth turbulation.   

• Added recently to our news-tracking folder regarding Makani Power:
  • ZeroPrestige 
  • Harvard Gazette note   The key to energy independence: Go fly a kite!   March 5, 2009

• FanBelt  or Loop Tether  or LoopTether or LoopLadderMill
  • LoopTether or single loop tether through one ground generator or "FanBelt"  where aloft actions cause the tethering belt to drive the generator
     
  • Single-loop through two ground pulleys. Gear at lofted spinning kite-lofted wing drives the loop; the driven loop rotates ground-station generator or pump.
     
  • The main tether could be a double-line (two parts of tensed loop).
     
  • A main tether plus a loop brings three lines occurring
     
  • "run a continuous loop of line from a capstan on the turbine to one on the ground gen"  DaveS concerning alternative to torsion tube driving ground-based generator as he was weighing how torsion tube method limits system to low altitude winds.
     
  • Contrast stay-aloft-spinning driver systems from the method where kites go up and go down in a loop; both have a driven loop, but the wings-stay-aloft method is quite distinct from the wings rotate up and down via changes of angle of attach of the wings.
     
    • Contrast two generic fanbelt AWE systems:
      1. Wings stay aloft driving a long loop line.
                A. Loop is the tensed tether of the AWE system.
                B. Loop is distinct from the main AWE system tether.
      
      2. Wings on a loop rotate from a high altitude point to a lower altitude point via airfoil pitch changes; that loop drives generator or pump directly or alternatively drives a gear aloft to a second loop that incorporates the situation in "1." above. .  
       
    • References and developments of the fanbelt method are invited: Notes@EnergyKiteSystems.net    

LoopLadderMill Schematic by Harry Valentine:

Selsam Innovations      http://selsam.com/
 Flying Serpant, flying serpent, flying turbines, lifted flying turbines, Wind Energy Wind Turbine Superturbine Doug Selsam

And

Selsam Innovations
 

Quote:   The Future of Wind Energy is a Multi-Rotor Future!

Superturbine^TM 

[ED: Doug Selsam is exploring
both non-AWE and AWE. ]

• September 9, 2009 .   Doug Selsam reports that he has much more AWE in the works.
• Discovery Channel will be very soon shooting some of Doug's products for hi-def showing.   September 2009 note.  He invites some field helpers (interested?) ... contact Doug Selsam directly. Site: Southern California.
• Serpentine wind turbine       by Selsam    Patent       Method uses torsion to drive generator. System may be ground-bound or formatted to an AWE system. [ED: Consider high altitude sector that has torsion branches that drive lofted gear that drives long loop tether for driving ground-based generator. ]
• Regarding his patent:

• 1025929	WAVE-MOTOR	May 1912
  1371836	CURRENT MOTOR	Mar 1921
  4165468	Wind driven, high altitude power apparatus	Aug 21, 1979
  4207026	Tethered lighter than air turbine	Jun 10, 1980
  4522600	Wind propulsion for all types of vehicles and stationary machines	Jun 11, 1985
  4547124	Impeller for a wind motor	Oct 15, 1985
  4708592	Helicoidal structures, useful as wind turbines	Nov 24, 1987
  4832571	Flexible tethered wind turbine	May 23, 1989
  5669758	Wind turbine	Sep 23, 1997
  D395419	Solar and wind powered boat	Jun 23, 1998

  Referenced by

  Patent Number	Title	Issue date
  6781254	Windmill kite	Aug 24, 2004
  7045702	Solar-paneled windmill	May 16, 2006
  7162833	Hillside farming module and system	Jan 16, 2007
  7188808	Aerialwind power generation system and method	Mar 13, 2007
  7275719	Wind drive apparatus for an aerial wind power generation system	Oct 2, 2007
  7276809	Wind turbine assembly and related method	Oct 2, 2007
  7317261	Power generating apparatus	Jan 8, 2008
  7335000	Systems and methods for tethered wind turbines	Feb 26, 2008

  

Each year a distinguished  jury  awards a $100,000 prize to support the development and implementation of a strategy that has significant potential to solve humanity’s most pressing problems. Entries are now being accepted and the deadline is midnight, Eastern Time on October 30, 2009.

“If success or failure of the planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do…
How would I be? What would I do?”                     ~Buckminster Fuller

Opportunity:  Physics of AWE aspects
Articles, links, notes, and discussions for the physics of AWE aspects are invited from interested scientists, engineers, technicians, mechanics, specialists, and kite engineers:  Notes@EnergyKiteSystems.net

Several national AWE representative positions
are open. 
Target is one volunteer per nation, at least.

The AWE representative will post news, challenges, developments, installations, grid integrations, R&D,  science, engineering, small and large AWE, business agreements and changes, etc. that are based in his or her nation.   
                        Visit:    AirborneWindEnergy 

E-mail:   Rep@energykitesystems.net

Conference: High Altitude Wind Power (HAWP)
Anticipated attendees,  so far,  at a coming November 5 and 6, 2009, in Chico and Oroville California conference first annual High Altitude Wind Power Conference:   The HAWP attendees will be invited to hear presentations and take part in discussions; the activity will be in two venues, first as part of the This Way to Sustainability V Conference November 5-8, 2009; after HAWP presentations on November 5th from 10:00 AM-12:00 noon, attendees will move to an  event Center in Oroville, to be declared soon on a website wehre registration may occur online.

• PJ Shepard, Technical Marketing Engineer, Sky WindPower, Oroville CA
• Dr. Cristina Archer
• So far,  presenters:
  • Makani Power
  • Magenn Power
  • Joby Energy
  • SkyWindPower
  • Sequoia Automation's KiteGen project
  • Press
  • Venture capitalists
  • Open-source AWE developers
  • Other presenters may still contact  PJ Shepard, Sky WindPower, Oroville CA 95965

Google Reveals Plan to Cut Solar Thermal Costs By a Quarter

BY Ariel Schwartz Thu Sep 10, 2009 at 11:31 AM

We have some neat updated drawings
by Harry Valentine.
Images are here available in both PDF format and the Jpeg format:

Dr. Cristina Archer

• Her page of publications.
• She will be giving opening address at the November 5-6   HAWP conference, see above news note.
• aka for research:  Lozej, Cristina;  C.L. Archer

Dream, brainstorm, begin journal
Research        ...reflect
Plan/manage     ...reflect
Design      . ..reflect
Model      ...reflect
Make parts      ...reflect
Build          ..reflect
Test Observe, record       ...reflect
Return to improve, change,
Share findings with others.    Be open to feedback.     Publish.

 In every Kindergarten: http://tinyurl.com/pinwheelAWE  
Get them started early with AWEsome thoughts.

Though the following pinwheel generator is stiff towered, alter it a bit and put 10 inches of tether at the pinwheel axis, keep the hand boom and swing that baby about (pendulum countering to stay a blocking to work the generator might be needed for the in-pinwheel generator. Alternatives with generator left in hand boom can be figured. Actually Darin Selby's opposing twisters may make a great beginning AWE in the small. Selsam and SpiralAirfoil may have the makings for a root market revolution AWE device in this genre.]  Put tethered version in the hands of a billion children to train a generation in AWE to help make market for the coming AWE supply revolution.   Click through image for the patent.

Tether scientists are invited to describe the dynamics of the 10 inch tether and the amount of energy that might be generated by a healthy normal sized 6 year old child with a specified sized pinwheel generator AWE device.

Market specialists are invited to figure out the social/market impact of a billion children playing with such an AWE device coupled with Internet explanations of the mechanics and the potential implications of AWE.  Kite energy. HAWP. KiteMotors. To-ground-laddermills. Lofted laddermills with long no-wing lower drive loops. Etc.   How efficient is the device in AWE forming a generation?

What portion of this is AWE?    :  )

The Irresistible Force of Wind Power: BTM's World Market Update 2008

See Robert S. Krolick  and Robin E. LeFever

Or review Willard D. Gillette

Article at Drachen Foundation: in fall of 2002
Tapping High Altitude Wind
‘Ladder’ of Kites Viewed as Energy Source

• General press on Laddermill
• General press on Wubbo Johannes Ockels

KitVes   
(funded project related to Kite Gen Research and Sequoia Automation)
( no e after t ) (It seems to Ed that "Ves" is for vessels, that is, kite energy for vessels, but not for tug.)

"Airfoil-based solution for Vessel on-board energy production
destined to
traction and auxiliary services"

• Valérie Briquez, coordinator for the project at the Arc Engineering College based in Le Locle
• KitVes project
• Ships to power up with giant kites
• KitVes
• Dr Sarah Kleeman
• Father and founder of KitVes is Kite Gen®
   
  • "The wind energy harvested by the KITVES solution is not used for direct traction. Such solution allows to design a brand new concept of on board electric generator whose generation capabilities are essentially independent from the navigation conditions, allowing the vessel to navigate in any direction without compromising the system operativity.
          The KSU (Kite Steering Unit) represents the basic element of the implementation of the KITVES Proposal. "  
    ...from their page here.  Highlight emphasis is by editor of this page.
     
• General study:  http://tinyurl.com/KitVes

Beginnings?

Under each sub-element canopy of the large array  is about 200 lbs.; a smart sensor is part of that 200 lbs. Each unit is a free-flying kite system with its tether from canopy to the 200 lbs. Each unit is using up potential energy earned by a lifting powered aircraft.  Some will find an AWE thought herein.

KiteGen

• http://www.kitegen.com/en/products/kite-gen-stem-off-shore/
• http://www.kitegen.com/en/products/kite-gen-carousel/
• Founded in 2007, Kite Gen Research is a privately held company, with headquarters in Chieri, near Torino
• Kite Gen Research online FAQ

nonAWE WECS 
Much in the knowledge base of nonAWE WECS
could serve the emerging AWE WECS revolution. 
We invite your nonAWE WECS links for our folder.
Add to this folder:    Notes@EnergyKiteSystems.net

Sizes of AWECS:    
Airborne wind energy conversion systems

• Utility-scale AWECS

• Commercial-scale AWECS

• Residential-scale AWECS

• Nomadic-scale AWECS

• Sport-scale AWECS

• Toy-scale AWECS

• Miniature-scale AWECS

• Micro-scale AWECS

Text toward AWE solutions in each scaled size have been emerging.
Anticipated products serving several applications in each scaled size have been exciting innovators. 
[ED: Alternative spellings:  utilityAWE, commercialAWE, residentialAW, nomadicAWE, sportAWE, toyAWE, miniatureAW, microAWE.]

Generalized AWE types classed by mooring scheme:

• Tethered to fixed groundstation

• Tethered to moving groundstation

• Tethered to fixed-position waterway station

• Tethered to moving waterway station (boats, boards, ships, barges, people, hydroChutes, hydroKites, hydroWings, hydrofoils, etc.)

• Tethered to another airborne segment of system for free-flying (no ground or water mooring involved here) (These stay aloft via controlling the dynamics of the sectors of the system in differential wind environments.)

• Tethered to interior lung tissue or commercial production environments in the small.

•  

•  

AWECS style sectors: practical, artistic, educational, promotional, recreational, ..
.   Artists will be expressing AWE in ways that may not be practical, yet may inspire a world to accept AWE for practical uses. What is fitting for educational settings may not be the the most efficient practical rendering. An AWECS used in promotional activities need not be the "most efficient" system. Having fun recreational with an AWECS need not be the "most efficient:" format.

AWE work styles: tug, pull, grind, pump liquids, generate electricity, compress gas, transport goods, transport people, ... 

• Here is a 39 page presentation from May 2009 by L. Fagiano, Mario Milanese, and D. L. Piga on KiteGen.
  .[[..KG-yoyo ]]   On page 34: "To build in 18 months a new yo-yo prototype
  with a power of 1 MW.•    This prototype will demonstrate the feasibility of building in further 18 months a windfarm with a power of 10 MW with energy production costs lower than from oil.•To build in 36 months a prototype with carousel configuration, demonstrating all the functionalities of a 50 MW plant on a circular structure of 500 m radius."
•  
• KiteGen update, Sept. 14, 2009 

 Kite Sails and Transport Ships

Be sure to tell your AWE story to Representative Paul D. Tonko:
          If you’d like to contact me about a legislative issue,
          please e-mail me a note or call my office at (202) 225-5076.

""Website of the “sister” company of Kite Gen Research""

SeTAC    ... triaxial acceleration computer

SeTAC (SEQUOIA Triaxial Acceleration Computer)

1.  Rotokite            Rotokite wind generator. See video also (art). [ED: The art is showing the reel method with power phase reel payout (productive phase) and non-productive phase with reeling in (cost) with collapse Rotokite.]

2.   Rotokite  (19 pages in PDF document, telling how rights to patent given to nonprofit Xerces Blue)   "The idea for the Rotokitepatent started with Gianni Vergnano, director of the company SEQUOIA IT, to which the patent is registered."

Notice the historical remarks concerning parentage of Xerces Blue nonprofit.

Notice also the associations with KitVes  and KiteGen, Kite Gen, Kite Gen Research, Kite Wing Generator Project,

Global Assessment of High-Altitude Wind Power
(page holds link to the 13 page PDF document and a large 24 mb atlas (104 page) as well as a supplementary document)
 Cristina L. Archer  and Ken Caldeira
As of Sept. 13, 2009:  unique access views: 2,366

• Kite Gen Research   September 2009: Kite Gen Research       home         
        Who? (<==click to see photos) 
  • Wang Seng Chee
  • Marcello Corongiu
  • Guido Ferretti
  • Massimo Ippolito
  • Gian Mauro Maneia
  • Mario Milanese
  • Riccardo Renna
  • Ivan Sergio
  • Franco Taddei
  • Aldo Trinchero
  • Leonello Zaquini

Fellow on the street asks an AWEsome advancer:
"What is sport electricity-generating AWE
and how does it differ from sport-tug AWE?"

Advanced enlightened mother approaches an AWEsome advancer:
"What toyAWE kit do you recommend for my 10 year daughter?
I want to introduce her to both an electricity-generating system as well as a tug system. Oh yes, and also one that tugs a toy barge that holds a little hydro-turbine that energizes lamps on the toy boat!
Can I find these at what store?
Are they available online?
You see, my daughter has expressed interest in becoming an AWE engineer
to help the world meet energy needs
in a clean and sustainable manner."

1. Ground-based low altitude wind power  (E.g.: hard-towered-held turbines, energy-capturing fences, energy-producing trees, sailed carousels, some torsion devices, etc.)
    
2. AWE tethered to groundstation with its own two major sectors:
   • Aloft generator              [ED: agAWE]
   • GroundStationed generator, pump, or work agent.       [ED: gsgAWE]
      
3. Totally-aloft AWE having no tower or no tether to the ground
   (E.g.: UtilityAWECS with Totally Aloft Smart Dynamic Soaring Dual-Kite Solution that keeps actor-lifter in jet stream and an actor-drogue exterior of the jet stream that converts energy to perhaps laser which laser is sent to one or more receivers, etc.)

Selsam says that he invented the AWE method of Laddermill:
"Just a brief note:
I invented the "Laddermill" in 1979, had it notarized etc.
Please see:
http://www.speakerfactory.net/wind_old.htm
go about 3/4 of the way down.
It is all documented.

At this tender young age, between telling everyone how big wind energy would soon be, to the doubt of "smart people" like, for example, my Yale-educated engineer father, I also saw that the laddermill was a drag machine, that drag-based turbine were the less efficient, therefore the "laddermill" (which I called "Auto-Oriented Wind Harnessing Ariel Tramway") needed to be changed to a lift-based machine - the sky serpent! - (then as now having difficulty deciding how to spell "Ariel" :)
Anyway, I have to say, with all due respect to others in this field, especially a pioneer such as Shepard, I think I have been way ahead of the curve since I was a kid; and if I could get people to help, I think I actually HAVE viable technology now. It does not *necessarily* require buoyancy as the turbines can fly themselves as you know.

Although I have also patented the concept of blades that are filled with helium or hydrogen, so the lifting body also provides the power. It makes me want to cry to see people putting resources behind lame-duck concepts such as Magenn - I could always make a more powerful turbine with the spare change in my pocket than they could ever produce even if they had millions to work with. It is all very sad to be basically (somewhat?) ignored while all the talking heads endlessly discuss how they will leave no stone unturned, put huge resources behind the effort etc., and you know going in they will waste ALL the money and do nothing that was not going to be done before, by the entrenched big players in wind energy.
Oh well, as I like to say, the welcome mat is out.

Here is my logic:
1   You have to tether it somehow so use a driveshaft.
2   Keep the heavy stuff on the ground and let the light stuff fly.
Maboomba!
:)
Doug Selsam
714-992-5594
http://www.USWINDLABS.com  (brawk!)"

[ ED:  Key phrases:

"Wind Harnessing Buoyant Aerial Tramway"

"Auto-Oriented Wind Harnessing Buoyant Aerial Tramway"    ]

September 20, 2009, Doug Selsam has given EnergyKiteSystems permission to republish images of his 1970's documentation that seems to be a strong claim for original inventing for a type of AWECS (airborne wind energy conversion system) that is now often called LadderMill because of the work done later by KiteLab at Delft University, Netherlands under guide by astronaut professor Wubbo J. Ockels.  Study and discussion on these matters has started in group AirborneWindEnergy at message: M309.    
Click through to see his notarized documentation and drawings:

• http://www.energykitesystems.net/Selsam/kitewindmill1sm.jpg
• http://www.energykitesystems.net/Selsam/kitewindmillwritingsmall.jpg
• http://www.energykitesystems.net/Selsam/recordofinvention60PCT.jpg

[ED: From Doug's text on his site about his concepts and his drawings of his original disclosure, it seems that he then did not see a couple of directions: 1. Lower-altitude second loop of lines that do not have acting wings, but which lower loop still transfers the upper wheeled tensional drive to drive the groundstation generator.    2. The possibility of having down-going wings be fully negative lifters driving very strongly and even with an effective use of the lee flows of the up-going wings.  Separations and formats of lifter holds form a family of maturing laddermills. The lower wingless loops may allow a a simpler aloft laddermill with acting wings kept only in high altitude winds.  With such priority, perhaps a renaming to BAT (buoyant aerial tramway) might be in order to replace "laddermill" that was coined by the Delft group. Studies and commentaries are invited. ]

Some  preliminary  talking points:

• Charles Parsons   1Art   2Art    3Art          Sir Charles Algernon Parsons (1854-1931); Turbinia, Steam Turbine Company; a remedy to cavitation from high rpm was to go to lower rpm while having more turbines and propellers on the same shaft, "Electric power generation on land also almost exclusively adopted steam driven turbine generators.
•  
• 
• -
• -
• 
• -
• Russian counter-rotating blades in airstream ..   ?
• Fairey Gannet
• Avro Shackleton
• Introduced in 1982 twin counter rotating propellers: Duoprop of  Volvo Penta
• Selsam goes for multiple wings on hard towered-held shafts and airborne flex-torsion shafts to generate electricity.
• US Patent 6672538 - Transmission for a coaxial counter rotating rotor system   Filed: 2002
• Darin Selby sees counter-rotating multiple wings forming in-air generator at interface of elements on airborne shaft.
• Dan Parker presents airborne flex-shaft with multiple Earth SpiralAirfoils

Preliminaries: propeller,  Morgan reflections.

What might be the coming utilization of multiple wings on a torsion shaft in AWE?
Consider air-hung devices where over-valley cables are anchored in mountains. Consider tailing downwind multiplicities from grand severe lifter kites and kytoons.

Instead of installing a swivel on those spinning kite tails: Put an inline electric generator where the swivel would have been placed for spinning kite tails.  
Quick sketch: torsionmultipleblade.jpg      Consider severe wide lifter kytoon hanging scores of torsion tails with each tail holding multiple high-aspect ratio spinning blade, paired spinning chutes, inflated blades, Earth SpiralAirfoils, etc. as best fits application, site, and particular economics.. Let each tail unit drive a generator or collect the torsion otherwise for a single generator; return the gains out of the jet stream via laser to ground receptors.

 Notes@EnergyKiteSystems.net  

Received notes on the topic:

1. DS: "Traditional wisdom-
   
   Co-axial rotors are too much fuss & complexity.
   Rear rotors get choppy air, largely eat any advantage.
   
   Only stators behind rotors in turbos are simple enough to exist widely.
   Even so, single rotors rule nature & markets."
    
2. __ [?]

http://energykitesystems.net/HarryValentine/MagennLoop.jpg

• Re: Magenn: 'Infinite Winds Dummies' Guide :  An Introduction to Wind Turbine Energy'
•  
  • Lead Scientist   Fred Ferguson
  • Experiment Guide
  • Turbine and Balloon
  • Wind Hot Spot
  • Practice Runs
  • Interactive Timeline
  • Critics' Voices

Pierre also ups some AWE:

[ED: His art indicates AWECS kite farm utilizing method that shows in Fig. 1 B of 1975 filed patent 3987987 by Peter R. Payne, Charles McCutchen, that is, a boom rocked  via use of two tethers; the left tether becomes taut while the right tether slacks and then exchanging roles.  Controls would guide the kite coterie for its wind window pathing left to right to left, etc.  The oscillation would rock the boom; the boom's center would rotate and drive generator.    The video caption states that the video is a simplification. And  "OrthoKiteBunch is a new type of kite generator."   Multiplicity of kites in coterie and trains is not new art. We hold our tongue on the newness of claims. The art is very enjoyable.  Discussion in group is invited.]

OrthoKiteBunch video caption English is:

"OrthoKiteBunch is a new type of kite generator, for a gigawatt installation with a 2,5 km² area swept and less than 1 km² ground occupation. OrthokiteBunch links two new concepts.OrthoKite concept:constant and optimal orthogonal force on one one lever arm then the opposite lever arm. KiteBunch concept: kite lines converge, so the kites can be superimposed to capture a full area without space loss (it is not really possible with an usual train kite). Two relay lines with their respective winches link a bunch of kites to a double lever arm. A winch winds the working line while the other winch unwinds the free line.
Actuating cylinders towards hydraulic accumulators and motors smooth the production of the electrical generators.
The animation is simplified."

OrthoKiteBunch video caption French seems longer:

Schéma animé simplifié du nouveau dispositif prévu pour balayer une aire de vent maximale pour un encombrement au sol minime (Voir aussi l'autre vidéo avec une animation plus élaborée au début.).
Les recherches sur de nouveaux modes de conversion d'énergies renouvelables pour la production d'électricité répondent aux inquiétudes quant au réchauffement climatique et à l'épuisement des ressources fossiles.
Les cerfs-volants permettent de capter les vents d'altitude plus réguliers et puissants.Différents systèmes ont été pensés.
L'OrthoKiteBunch développe un gigawatt en captant une aire de 2,5 km² d'un vent de 12 m/s,ce pour une occupation au sol de moins d'un km².Il est le résultat de la réalisation en liaison de deux concepts:traction à angle droit en alternance sur un levier et son opposé pour une transmission optimale et presque constante de la force de traction,et disposition des éléments volants en bouquets de cerfs-volants en superposition et dont les lignes convergent en un point d'où descendent les deux lignes relais.
Les bouquets de cerfs-volants permettent une couverture totale de la surface travaillée et notamment sur la verticale (contrairement au train classique de cerfs-volants lesquels doivent être éloignés les uns des autres pour une captation non masquée du vent,et donc occuper exagérément l'espace,et aussi voler à des vitesses différentes au prorata de la longueur de corde).
Les leviers ont pour fonction de démultiplier la force,et non de délimiter un espace de vol,lequel est dévolu aux lignes-mêmes:ainsi les éléments structurels sont de dimensions réduites.
Les leviers sont doubles,permettant ainsi un positionnement orthogonal des lignes d'où une force tangentielle optimale.
Deux lignes relais transmettent la traction en alternance et sont commandées par leurs treuils repectifs:l'un des treuils enroule la ligne tractante pendant que l'autre treuil déroule l'autre ligne mise ainsi hors traction.
Les forces parasitaires radiales sont inexistantes,et axiales en fonction de l'angle de vol,et peuvent être éliminées par l'inclinaison du plateau pivotant permettant également d'orienter l'ensemble selon la direction du vent.
Le schéma de vol des cerfs-volants est très simple:vol à grande vitesse en un mouvement transversal en essuie-glace.
La production est lissée par la mise en oeuvre d'accumulateurs hydrauliques permettant de combler les creux cycliques lors des demi-tours,en actionnant les moteurs hydrauliques entraînant les générateurs.

Google machine translation of the French above:  THERE MAY BE ERRORS IN THE following TRANSLATION. Skilled translation is invited, please send to Notes@EnergyKiteSystems.net     Thanks.

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Structural optimization of the pumping kite wind generator

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IBF    Ingenieurbüro Franetzki
PCT/EP2009/001882 (published),  PCT/DE2007/001671  

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[ED:  Invite discussion in group AirborneWindEnergy       Furthering: Concept 3 could be tensional towers stayed by kites or kytoons.]

Store that wind's energy! 

Alternatives for the aircraft  form niche solutions: kytoons, kytoon and kite, balloons, balloon and kytoon, variDrogue and balloon, variDrogue and kytoon, kites, LTA Spiralairfoils smartly morphed, kytoon lifted multiple rotors, etc.

Notes on this topic are invited: Notes@EnergyKiteSystems.net

Notes on this topic are invited: Notes@EnergyKiteSystems.net

When wind is not:

Smartly change the color to cycle tether-driven pump or generator.using ratcheted gearing

non-kiteyness

Tethered airfoil wind energy conversion system

 Lloyd I. Biscomb  US Pat. 4309006 - Filed Jun 4, 1979  Approved on Jan. 5, 1982.  "Tethered airfoil wind energy conversion system"       TAWECS

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A classic talk on ultra low Reynolds' numbers, a joy for novice & expert alike, not exactly kitey, but kites lean toward lower Reynolds', so its very instructive. Also relates to spiral hydrofoils in slow current:

Life at Low Reynolds' Number
by E. M. Purcell,  Lyman Laboratory, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass 02138, June 1976      [PDF document, 16 pages]

"I got interested in the way a rotating corkscrew can propel something. Let's consider propulsion in one direction only, parallel to the axis of the helix."

And if you enjoy that .... then a revisit with illustrations and other notes:   Revisited.

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• AQUABANK at RiverBankPower (large-scale hydro water movement from high to low to high again with good timing in conjunction with renewable intermittent resources.  Small versions have been simply called water-battery in the AWECS community.  See the small urban flat region instance of such technology with AWECS serving even small home away from rivers or away from oceans; a closed set of water holds set at distinct heads provides a "water-battery" to hold AWECS-gained energy in upper water-hold; drop water through a small hydro generator to lower water-hold; pump the water back up with AWECS.

Set of WPI==> Videos.

• World AWE
• Earth AWE
• Global AWE
• Universal AWE
• International AWE
• Cross-border AWE
• Multi-border AWE
• Multi-national AWE

• AWE Games? 
   
• How to compare systems?  
   
• AWE-lympics?   Scaled at one of the eight AWE scales:
  microAWE, miniatureAWE, toyAWE, sportAWE, nomadicAWE, residentialAWE, commercialAWE, utilityAWE
   
• College AWE Games?
   
• Taking bets on _____?______.

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