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"the shade branch of AWE is one of hundreds of AWE branches or sectors" - ***I disagree.  I say there IS NO "shade branch" of AWE, at all.  The closest thing is you, merely saying so.  Shade is not energy.  Period.  The fact that Dave S. will automatically agree with whatever you post here goes without saying - meaningless.  He merely enjoys arguing, especially against facts, without basis. 

The reason you guys will never crack the code at this rate is you give up on AWE every day, through attempts to redefine AWE to be whatever kite-related, stretched yet watered-down idea you come up with that day.  AWE is airborne wind energy, not "providing shade".  Providing shade is NOT producing energy.  Period.  Ask last week's hero, Fort Felker of The National Wind Technology Center, if providing shade is a form of wind energy. 

You guys really take the cake - an order of magnitude more ridiculous than any obstinate, lame-ass, resistant-to-facts, would-be, wannabe, wind energy inventor I have ever seen.  The idea that anyone with their ignorant, proposed, 100% solidity wind energy solution (aren't they all?) would retreat to claiming that its mere shadow somehow represents "the generation of energy" makes any previous wannabe wind energy lies pale in comparison. 

Sure Joe, you can't generate even a single Watt, so now we are supposed to be impressed that a kite has a shadow?  And call that AWE?  You are sounding more and more desperate every day.  I think you have finally completely fallen off the back of the turnip truck.  :) Doug S.

You are welcome to put up a 5000 sq ft kite to shade my garage in the summer, anytime.  Isn't that the size of kite that sets world records and then kills the participants?  I guess if we need shade when there is no wind we are screwed, oh well.  And a 5000 sq ft kite might get a bit difficult when the winds get strong in the afternoon too. 

You'd have to maintain a very close watch on upwind wind speeds, since if you wait til the strong winds arrive, it may be too late to bring the giant kite down.  But as long as you don't mind launching a 5000 sq ft kite every day, meticulosuly keeping its shadow on the garage, then pulling it down if the wind either weakens, or threatens to get stronger, perhaps several times in an afternoon, it will be great.  :)  Let's hope a dust devil doesn't come through - but they always do, so that will be a problem.

Of course no matter how great it works, it will never be AWE, just as rolling on the ground while laying down is not "walking"...  Well, unless you change the definition of the word "walking".  Sorry, I forgot, you will change any definition of any word as many times as necessary to make any previous statement seem "true"... (sigh)  Oh well, at some point you are simply beyond help!

Anyway, OK I have a schedule for you.  Could you please fly a 5000-sq-ft kite with variable transparency over my garage and make it 50% transparent til 9:00 AM, then transition to 100% transparent by 11:00 AM, later bringing it down if upwind wind speeds reach 30 MPH?  But then relaunch if winds get weaker again?  But stay on task to keep launching and bringing it in all day as wind conditions change?  And bring it down if a dust devil approaches?  And do you mind relocating the anchor point all day as the wind direction changes, so the kite remains over the garage?  And, oh, can you please watch out for the power lines?  Oh good, thanks!  That will take a big load off the ~250 Watts the commercial evaporative cooler uses to keep it cool all day right now.
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Profethor Crackpot doesn't want you to forget: Today ith "National Bowtie Day".

He'th deigned that a thymbolic logo of himthelf be uthed to denote the holiday: Home - National Bow Tie Day 2014

 NATHIONAL BOWTIE DAY _ THAY IT, Don't THPRAY IT!  :)))

"What Doug failth to realithe is that"... that Dave Eth ITH Profethor Crackpot!

I'd say the worst argumentative newbie-idiot ever to strike wind energy was the promoter of HelixWind, several years back.  Toby Kinkaid relentlessly argued with the experts, including me, and the other 3 experts (including Paul Gipe) in the following article, for months on end, always claiming superiority, never giving an inch as he lavishly poured his complete ignorance of wind energy upon us, as though "debating the experts" could rescue his lack of understanding: (remind you of anyone?)
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/energy/2012/08/120820-helix-wind-collapse/
Ooops - looks like HelixWind went bankrupt after wasting something like 40 million dollars?  Sheesh that could buy a small windfarm!  Ignorance knows no bounds!
The article says the Philadelphia Eagles at first wanted 80 of the crappy turbines, but reduced the number after realizing the 100% solidity rotors would cause too much shade! 
You can look up the Eagles' symbolic, not very effective turbines: They chose a different vertical-axis design in the end, NOT HelixWind.

Tho anywayth, the good Profethor was thelling (selling) hith HelixthWind 100% solidity turbine to a building owner, telling him it would eliminate the electric bills.
When the owner reported back to the profethor, he said "This turbine makes basically NO power - ever!  What's up with that?"

Well that'th when the good profethor went ballistic:  Look Mr. Cuthtomer, I thaid it would reduthe your energy billth, and ath far ath I can thee, thith 100% tholidity turbine ith providing thome shade to your building.  It ith eathy to calculate the thavings from your air-conditioning bill, therefore our performanth thatementth remain intact.

Oh, OK professor, I've got a bridge to thell you, and altho, have you heard about the new type of air conditioner utilizing an old car door?  Yes, you sit next to the car door, and if it gets too hot, you can roll down the window!

Hey Joe, I have a new form of AWE for you.  A new "branch":  Tie a kite to an old car door.  When it gets too hot, you can roll down the window!  Kite-energy in the form of air-conditioning!  Another "branch" of AWE for you!  Congratulations, Joe!  :)))

Thanks for the job order exploration, Doug S.; we need to discuss price for the shading service over your garage. Note that a 5000 sq. ft. shadow over your garage need not use a base wing of 5000 sq. ft, but may use the part of a kite system called tailing or draping or curtaining or flagging or membraning; Some base wings might play lifter roles for other non-lift-focused shading parts. When I come up with a price for your site and garage, I'll forward the proposal; it may be a significant while before you might see my pricing.  Converting wind energy to produce shade is an ancient art that is open to advanced schemes.  Honorable AWE sector, even while respecting that you have a yet hidden definition for AWE which we await; consider posting that issue in the topic thread "What is AWE?"      

"Stupidest Forum Post Ever"  *** At least when I post something stupid, it is intentional... :)  Thanks for stating the obvious.

"Consider the shading that may serve from kite-system lifted materials that are released. In this realm consider powders" great Joe, release powders over my garage for shade.  Nice AWE work.  Are you sure you don't wanna run for president?  :)

"I'd say the worst argumentative newbie-idiot ever to strike wind energy was the promoter of HelixWind..." *** I meant besides Dave S. who takes the cake.

"(your) intentional stupidity is more stupid than (our) unintentional ignorance in seeking the light." ***Thanks.  At least you admit it.  The question is "Why?"  :)

DougS, 

Possible salvage: Figure-8 path for working cross-wind AWES: bowtie figure.

Thanks for inviting me to Europe - wait, is the UK part of Europe or am I just thinking of the E.U? or is it just "The Euro"?  Or is Lewis Island part of the UK or are you going independent like the Scots?  Or ARE you technically a Scot? (Sorry I forgot) 
Well here in the U.S. we routinely have several inches of attic insulation on top of the drywall of the ceiling below, at least.  There's sometimes an insulated roof.  Sometimes foam panels are used too.  The attic above is several feet high at the center, with mandatory vents at each end or at many points, and, in one house i've been working on lately, vent fans from Ventamatic that turn on automatically when they reach a certain adjustable temperature.
Doing all that probably covers it pretty well, but still, the tiles above get hot, then the attic gets hot, and the house below must run the AC more.  So it seems that, yes we already HAVE multiple layers in the house - Whaddaya think we're in the stone age here? :) -, but since that still is not enough, I wish there was a way to shade the whole house, without hiring Joe to fly a kite over it all day.  Not that I would mind Joe flying a kite over my house, just that I couldn't afford it after a while.  Then again, we only have a few hot months...
I can think of one common solution, especially for one-story houses: TREES.  They grow up and provide shade.  I know, I know, I thought if it myself.  I guess if shade is energy, then a tree is biomass or biodiesel, or something - Joe, help me out here, there has got to be a good joke about redefining some energy category so that a tree in your yard suddenly qualifies as a new clean energy breakthrough.

"FYI, I don't have the ProfC characteristic" *** Well still, Happy National Bowtie Day 2 U!  :)
Sadly, (shedding a little tear) you're right.  (snif) It's rare to see a complete Professor Crackpot, with ALL the characteristics.  The beard, fine, but your hair needs to be longer and curlier, flying in various directions, maybe with some gray.  I don;t remember the dandruff glasses either.  And you'd have to work on developing a lithp.  But I got the bicycle-horn clown right?  See?  Almost nobody has ALL the profC aspects together.  Still though, you DO see a LOT of people who are kind of "in the ballpark" if not "in the pocket".  Perhapth There'th a little Profethor Crackpot in all of us - just some more than others.  I will call you professor C if you seem to be acting like a profC.  I WISH you were a better Prof C.  Another one is that scientist who went up in front of congress about "global warming".  I think it had only been getting colder for about 10 years at that time... :)

"How big a problem are scams in the global wind industry?" *** They believe in their nonsense just like you, except you are way worse. Kincaid was off by about 2 orders of magnitude, whereas your nonsense is off by more like 4 orders of magnitude.  They don't intend to be "scams", they are just the stupid leading the gullible off a cliff like lemmings. We've seen so many and they are all basically the same. 

They act just like you, except they have one concept, that actually rotates, and that rotation is enough for them to think they have the next thing in wind energy.  Your stuff, on the other hand, makes "the scammers'" stuff look like the breakthroughs the promoters say it is, since your stuff, by comparison, looks completely lame even to know-nothings, obviously produces no power whatsoever, and never involves even such 3000-year-old basics as a balanced rotation. 

So, what powers "the scammers" is people who are so stupid they can only imagine completely lame crap like you come up with, making "the scammers" with graceful, curved, convincing-to-newbies, 100% solidity, rotating surfaces, look like geniuses in comparison to those promoting even worse concepts such as the ones you promote. 

And of course you all respond to informed criticism with personality attacks, actually believing in some way that your failure to ever make any power is actually a mental problem in the mind of the learned commentator.  That's why I say, you are like the worst insane newbie, to the umpteenth power, on steroids.  You make the worst "scammer" look like an angel complete with wings and a halo, with a PhD in aerodynamics, an M.E., and an E.E.

  You have to realize, the average person out there, including investors, have no background in wind energy and will believe any story, especially if it confirms their ignorance, such as high-solidity, push-based turbines being easy-to-understand - people like to feel that "they understand" therefore they will accept as truth what is made "easy to understand" since it is a resting place for their overtaxed brains to stop and take a breath. 

But none of the "scammers ever even approached the level of daily ignorance you and Joe spew on a regular basis.   For example, I never heard them claim their wind turbine's shadow was a form of "wind energy", or that a machine that was not moving was nonetheless functioning as "a turbine" by its mere presence, the way Joe does.  You guys really don't understand that you are completely insane. 

It is easy to see that every investor in every crackpot uninformed attempt at AWE, as we see taking place in Europe, will lose their money too.  These people are badly misinformed.  It is easy to tell by the mere demeanor, let alone actual comments, of the promoters.  Once you've seen it over 100 times, you guys really all look exactly the same.  Well, like i said, except you are worse.  

But I'm still here, offering the truth anytime anyone wants to listen.  In my mind, you are the ultimate recalcitrant newbie experiment, to see how long someone is willing to go on making such an endless fool of themself, and so far you have beat any of "the scammers" by at least ten (10) times in duration, and probably ten times more in level of ignorance, and that's just so far!.  Congratulations.  :)

"seeing a design principle emerge in AWES R&D, of lightweight polymer aloft, with heavy steel machinery on the surface," *** SuperTurbine(R)

Amazing array of "cart-ahead-of-the-horse" questions.  In wind energy, you need a single reliable concept that delivers a useful amount of energy at a reasonable cost.  You don't need endless committees and multiple confused attempts at technology by clueless people who have no grasp of what they are doing.  Like in archery, you need to aim and hit the target, not be blindfolded, randomly shooting in various directions.  Pretending the blindfolded shooter is employing some organized method is just delusional.  That blindfolded shooter can never approach the performance of one who can see and aim.

You need much more than just a concept thanks Doug.
And more than just a cheap financial proposition, we're offering reduced cost of weight and material.