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  • First AWE Encampment:  Texas AWE Encampment

Texas AWE Encampment 2013:  
The 2nd
Texas AWE Encampment has in effect started. 
April 17, 2013 and following weeks;
still time to plan and be there!        Near Austin, Texas.

Forget exact dates, the 2nd Texas AWE Encampment has in effect started, and continues indefinitely for weeks. There is still time for folks to make plans and attend the action. Early visitors are trickling in as a volunteer network of guest houses, gourmet kitchens, camps, workshops, flying fields, bike/carpool transportation, and so on, comes together.

We expect a sort of climax phase in a couple of weeks as a dozen or new AWES machines leave the fab shops and begin demonstrations at Taylor-Taylor's 50 acre hay-kite hybrid kitefarm. "Winning" machines will move to Austin's Zilker Park for a flash-mob kite music series. These concerts are "dress" rehearsals for major kite music events in planning for New York City. The NYC Parks & Rec authorities are excited and acting helpful with approvals, and major music stars are already offering to participate in "AWEfest".

Top folks, like Wubbo Ockels and Cristina Archer, are supporting this push to catch the public imagination with Kite Energy in NYC. Wubbo spontaneously offers the TUDelft AWES as a resource, and we hope pending invitees like WindLift, Enerkite, and all others with working low-risk mobile systems participate in these events, expenses paid. Patrice Mallard, Ed Sapir, and Util llc deserve special praise for this wave of new progress. Chase Honaker's KickStarted AWE Documentary is another powerful driver.

We have found a new path forward for the fractured AWE R&D community, promising an astounding inventive-momentum. This latest model for success is not based on stealth-venture-capitalism, or winner-take-all competition in military-industrial fly-off. The historic new technical progress will be by a public-celebration format, with all the vitality of unlimited crowd-sourced love and intelligence.

Please come help the "Austin KiteKamp" meet its technical milestones in coming weeks. Contact Ed Sapir to join the fun- edoishi@yahoo.com

 

Ilwaco 2013, Washington State, USA
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