I think the failed observation is where you failed to notice we have no contract. Your proposal let's call it a suggestion is a welcome ponderance at most so far.
If you'd like to contract me to research this for you we can arrange terms.
Rod

Ochd well,
At least we all now know what a torque ladder is.
Soon we'll all even have one working datum point.
Maybe one day we can have a peer reviewed proof of scaling methods and their limits.
Until then. It works. We know.
And it could be made too big to possibly work. We know. 
How big it ever has to be... Hopefully not that big.
It needs tension to operate. We know.
It can be further stabilised by setting ring sections instead of rods with cone lines to the tension tether. I'm kinda sure.
Any more reliable info always welcome.

Thanks for generously conceeding that I'm a looney. Sweet ta.
Doug, if you're still reading...
Were any of your torque ladder forms configured like the one I helped bring to the forum... With the rungs able to only rotate around and not slide along the tension line?

Prime higher altitude. Nah it's never been meant to go there. Get a grip Dave.
This is a low level only component. An enabler. You may stop ranting on now oh holy one.

Further spar for the list:  Opposing coupled veering wings or opposing coupled veering wing systems.

~ JoeF

David Santos boy you just listen up now ok! And listen up good.
I'll get you a torque ladder to the moon if you want ok. But you'll have to stump up the cash and wait.
The current scaling issue with a torque ladder is alignment of spars along the lifter they ride . Occaional Rings in the lader tied cone fashion should sort this.
Spinning lots of tubes in a row is how the tiniest to the largest DNA type devices get around.
Of course eventually there's the obvious weight  & energy available in lift with limits on availability necessary for torque energy transfer.
That's where good bearings might next become the scaling issue.
Then maybe the question of aerodynamic optimisation of the rotary AWES ring.
Can it be  wide stiff and Supersonic?
Or more localised to the spars and speedily steerable? That's Probably depending on how steady you can set some mesh rigging. I've given you enough drawing idea by now. Demoed a remote tension control line system for you. if you want to use it go ahead be my guest.
The next scaling issue then is finding people to get off their arshe end and test.
And whilst I'm at whinging on could somebody else please get on with making or sourcing a good line clamping bearing holder. Something removable too, that snapps together casing a bearing which has been put on the line.
That would be bloody useful.
Re stating continually the terms and status update of some perceived slander match in the guise of a wits battle isn't.

By the way that line and bearing clamp would make automatically adding spars onto the line as it payed out feasible.
Break that Law Galileo. Figaro, magnificohohohohhhh

Ahhh beautiful picture.
Nice work there.
Big piece of rope to handle though eh.
Hope you got gloves and hard hats for everyone involved.

Many thanks for sharing.

Awesome link thanks Christian.
The polymers are nearly all clear.
Hollow swept chord forms with voronoi bone like bubble infill shouldn't be too hard for you to make in rhino grasshopper.. Sinue, ligament and cordage can all be mathematically described there too. But to what glasshouse effect... I guess programing in a little high pressure ram through ventilation vent pattern with 200 or so tiny holes or any other odd request wouldn't be too hard either with the parametric designs...
Good call and good luck with it dude.

Oh Doug that was all a  bit rough and unnecessary you (actual funny rude word removed for NSFW reasons)

Dave S
Who sells perfectly symmetrical wings popularly? Oh 2 wings have symmetry about a plane or the 2 sides of an arch kite sure. Single wings hardly ever have symmetry in themselves. They are often grouped like say around a jet compressor or turbine and able to provide group function.

And they work well that way.. Weird who'd have known?

Phew, sorry, I'm glad I got that wrong.

If the top of the ifo looks like
Some sort of horizontal one-way valved sail-mesh
Sounds big
Or is that a written off part of the idea?
Could look lovely

So everywhere on the forum where it says "Rod said" I didn't.

This topic thread is dedicated to Rod's wish list item:

 Line-Clamping Bearing Holders

DaveS has some good ideas but not a good rhetoric to present them. It is the reason why he has some problems with almost players like GuidoL, MassimoI, even some players in "our" AWE forum, or with organizations like Nearzero. His style " If you tell I am wrong I tell you are wrong" is not adapted for technical debate. So for example a very good idea like "earth as a spar" is welcomed as "two dogs as spar".

PierreB