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Technical paper, 24 pages, PDF format
Date: ? circa 2011
Conceptualization and Multi-Objective Optimization of the Electric System of an Airborne Wind Turbine
J. W. Kolar, T. Friedli, F. Krismer, A. Looser, M. Schweizer
Power Electronic Systems Laboratory (PES)
ETH Zurich, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
P. Steimer
ABB Switzerland Ltd.
5300 Turgi, Switzerland
J. Bevirt
Joby Energy, Inc.
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
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The paper's
"ACKNOWLEDGMENT
The authors would like to acknowledge highly helpful discussions on AWT
with several employees of Joby Energy (H. Hallam, M. Diederik, T.
Grimley, D. Chebot), N. Pallo, MIT, Prof. M. Casey, consultant in turbo
machinery, and C. Houle from SwissKitePower"
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Paper's
"Index Terms—airborne wind turbine, multi-objective optimization,
power electronics, wind power, renewable energy"
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A selected quote from the paper:
"The basic idea here consists of implementing only
the blades of the windmill in the form of a power kite flying at high
speed perpendicular to the wind, thus avoiding the entire mechanical
support structure of conventional windmills. The ideas go as far as
exploitation of the wind energy in the jetstream at an altitude of
10
000 m with wind speeds of up to 50 m/s (compared to typically
10 m/s near the ground) and/or a 125-fold higher power density
(W/m2) according to (1) compared for example to vW = 10 m/s."
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