Topic for open discussion: Note: Some readers may not appreciate how this topic fits into AWE. How is THIS going to help achieve AWE objectives?
Do
They Realize That
They Are Kiting?
- akiteis
prelims
- Many activities go by names that might tend to hide the
technical reality that the activity is a form of kiting.
Technical kite scientists may not want to miss studying the activities
that are kiting but have activity names that variously hide the core
kiting mechanics. A wealth of lessons may be devived from the
developments in each kiting activity; the lessons may inform other
kiting activities seemingly far removed from some initial kiting
activity.
- One aim of this present topic is to bring to the table
scores and more of activities that are fundamentally a form of kiting.
Proposed activities may be discussed to reveal how they are kiting
forms. Then, of course, we may branch to each activity for separate
topics (as we have done already for many kting activities.
- A powerboat towing a hydrofoiled board
with a human
onboard the board piloting at least one end of the system is involved
in a kiting activity. That claim may be discussed. It is feasible
for the board pilot to be piloting remotely the powerboat. And
generation of electricity in such a kiting system may be described and
discussed. Etc.,
etc. Enthusiast of powerboat towing of hydrofoil
boads are not found referring to their activing as a form of kiting,
but they could and be resonant with technical fact.
- It may be fun and enlightening to unfold a system to find a
way to see the "kiting" involved. Of course, discussants
may have differing assumptions and definitions that result in differing
conclusions; that may provide a colorful set of things to think
about.
- Case study: How to TOW with a CHAIN smoothly
Identify how kiting is occurring. Identify the two media involved.
Notice how either vehicle is opposing wing to the other. Discuss how
power anchoring and reverse-power anchoring occurs during during the
kiting. Notice how electricity could be generated in the system, if
wanted. What practical goods are being obtained in the case kiting
system? Slack-line events? Changes in direction events? Keeping tether
set taut? Gliding? What are the challenges on going from slack tether
set to taut tether set? How would this case face going down a
steep road or up a steep road?
- Case study: Tug Boat Towing a Tanker Ship at Sea Tether set? Wing set? Two media? Glidingtimes? Kiting times? P:owered
anchor? When the tanker is seen as a kited wing in this scene,
the wing is a "lighter-than-water" wing deflecting water and deflecting
air. The tanker may have steerable devices in its system. The tug
at times may be seen as a powered anchor; the tug may change directions
by control surfaces also.
- Case study: ANCHORING A MEGA-SHIP (ANCHOR WEIGHT 22 TONS) - 4K UHD VIDEO - THE SEAWOLF
Two or three media in this case seem to occur; first two and then
three. After three media are involved in the kiting scene, then
what happens to the mega-ship relative to the air and water media? How
might electricity be generated during the scene from the water and air
currents? Kiting might seem to begin when the 20-T "anchor" item
begin to be lowered; it is at first in the air where dynamic anchoring
begins; then the "wing" (yes, the 20-T device) hits the water partially
(two media environment: air and water) and then that device submerged
is just in water and later water and soil (media phases). Discuss.
How Ship Anchor Works? - Procedure For Anchoring a Ship at Sea
- Potential future AWES arrays at sea may use seabed anchors while aerial arrays of wings work to drive electric generators.
- Case study: Multi Action Chain Link Drag Harrow
- Case study: Pulling Massive Black Oak Against Lean (method explained) Specialed nomenclature may be interpreted into terms known in other kiting realms.
- Case study: There's NO WAY you'll recover that truck! (Rescuing a Chevy Silverado)
- Case study: Safely towing a dingy | Sail Fanatics
- Case study: Active flags Discuss how some flagging rises to hold technical kiting.
- Case study: Ski-slope tow loops moving people to higher ground.
- Case study: Ballooning spiders
- Case study: People pulling wagons, toys,
- Case study: Playing tetherball
- Case study: Skipping or jumping rope (sport) wiki Explore
moving the rope wing through flight cycles; and moving the human wing
at the end(s) of the tether wing (rope(s)). Explore both ground-based
sectors and FFAWE sectors of the actions.
- Case study: Tug-of-War
- Case study: Animals pulling plows
- Case study: Trees
The deliberate nurturing of trees is nurturing kite systems. The leaves
with stem tether and branch anchor are kite systems sub to the full
tree; the tree is a kite system made of sub kite systems. The kite tree
has its anchor: Earth. Trees slow the wind and convert wind's kinetic
energy into other forms of energy to do good works. Trees seem to know
how to eat other kites! Etc.
- Case study: Examine the plant kingdom for natural kite
systems. Explore widely distributed lift and drag of parts; look for
parts that get into tension when the wind blows. Desscribe the anchor
systems. Look for sub kites in the complex macro plant. In some
plants, see how they birth gliders. See the decaying afterlife matter
as becoming parts of kite-anchor system; and sometimes the soil go the
new kite systems.
- Case study: Human hanging from a high hold.
- Case study: Pendulums
- Case study: Spiders on spider webs. Web-held debris. Spider webs per se. Notice the anchor system, tether system, and wing system of the involved complexes.
- Case study: Broom sweeping
- Case study: Clotheslining
- Case study: Fishing Media:
air, water, fish. Lifter/deflector elements including at times
the fish corpora. Tether set. Flow. Practical purpose.
- Bait, lures, flies,
- purse seiner
- trawling
- otter boards
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- Case study: Sector of alley bowling
- Case study: Railed trains.
Consider the media: air and rail. Consider the tensional connections
from car to car in the train. Consider the powered anchor that effects
the ambient rail flow resultant. Consider the draft of air from
car to car. Consider how the wheels of the trailing cars are ever
deflected up upon compressing the rail as the rail is relatively
flowing.
- Case study: Piloting a surrey behind a horse or horses.
Consider
the horse set being a powered anchor set. Notice the tension from the
horse to the surrey. Note the media of air and soil. Notice the lift
following the wheels' compression of the
ground.
Horse-drawn vehicles
- Case study: Towing or pulling or dragging, in general, seems often to posit kiting.
- Case study: Find tension and probably thereabouts find kiting.
- Case study: Construction's crane operating.
Note the wind limits for safe operating of the cranes. Note the limits
over tether gathering and tether lengthening.
- Case study: Optional launch methods on foil pumping: study the kiting phases in this video: HERE "How to Foil pumping | Hydrofoil Surfing"
- Case study: 'Tiny wind turbine' collects energy from walker's swinging arms' Wearable 'Wind Turbine' Gathers Energy From Walker's Swinging Arm. Notice the arm as tether set; notice body as anchor set.
- Case study: Explore the kiting aspect of some trebuchets.
- Case study: Explore the kiting aspects of seaweed farming.
- Case study: The realm of mooring has some robust kiting occurring.
- Case study: Explore
conventional helicopters; treat the rotors as a powered anchor of a
kiting system; study the rotating mast as the tether set; see the
passenger body as a wing being tethered. Have we a kiting system here?
- Case study: Flight of the FFAWE dandelion seed dispersing ...
- Case study: Marlin towing fisherman's loaded hull. Video for study. Opposing wings and the tether set; air and water media. Powered anchor.
- Case
study: During embroidery there seems to be a kiting sector occurring.
Pulling the line through the fabric media and air media results in
deflection of the media and heat and turbulence are part of the
resultant realm.
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