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Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 21905 From: dave santos Date: 2/10/2017
Subject: Crosswind "Iris" GW-scale AWES Concept

Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 21906 From: Joe Faust Date: 2/10/2017
Subject: Maximilian Ranneberg

Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 21907 From: Joe Faust Date: 2/10/2017
Subject: EnerKite GMBH patents

Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 21908 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 2/10/2017
Subject: HAWT Kite with Ram Air Drive (3)

Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 21909 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 2/10/2017
Subject: Re: Crosswind "Iris" GW-scale AWES Concept

Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 21910 From: dave santos Date: 2/10/2017
Subject: String-Shooting "Flying Rope" variant

Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 21911 From: Joe Faust Date: 2/10/2017
Subject: Re: String-Shooting "Flying Rope" variant

Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 21912 From: benhaiemp Date: 2/11/2017
Subject: Re: String-Shooting "Flying Rope" variant

Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 21913 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 2/11/2017
Subject: Charles Proteus Steinmetz

Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 21914 From: dave santos Date: 2/11/2017
Subject: Re: String-Shooting "Flying Rope" variant

Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 21915 From: dave santos Date: 2/11/2017
Subject: Re: Charles Proteus Steinmetz

Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 21916 From: dave santos Date: 2/11/2017
Subject: Water Jets to >300m Altitude

Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 21917 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 2/11/2017
Subject: Re: Charles Proteus Steinmetz

Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 21918 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 2/11/2017
Subject: Re: Water Jets to >300m Altitude

Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 21919 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 2/11/2017
Subject: Re: Minesto news

Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 21920 From: dave santos Date: 2/11/2017
Subject: Re: Charles Proteus Steinmetz

Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 21921 From: dave santos Date: 2/11/2017
Subject: Re: Minesto news

Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 21922 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 2/11/2017
Subject: Joško Deur

Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 21923 From: dave santos Date: 2/11/2017
Subject: Drones deploy membrane roll-stock

Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 21924 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 2/11/2017
Subject: Customer: Five-units on order

Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 21925 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 2/11/2017
Subject: KiteMill crowdfunding video at end of 2016

Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 21926 From: dave santos Date: 2/12/2017
Subject: Re: Customer: Five-units on order

Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 21927 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 2/12/2017
Subject: Send some AWE note to the editor of Upper Windpower.

Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 21928 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 2/13/2017
Subject: Replacing a tether during flight

Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 21929 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 2/13/2017
Subject: Re: Forum headline images

Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 21930 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 2/13/2017
Subject: Multi-mass dynamic model of a variable-length tether used in a high

Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 21931 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 2/14/2017
Subject: Re: Billion-dollar Breakthrough Energy Venture Fund formally launche

Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 21932 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 2/14/2017
Subject: Re: Billion-dollar Breakthrough Energy Venture Fund formally launche

Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 21933 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 2/14/2017
Subject: Re: Billion-dollar Breakthrough Energy Venture Fund formally launche

Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 21934 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 2/14/2017
Subject: Re: Billion-dollar Breakthrough Energy Venture Fund formally launche

Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 21935 From: dave santos Date: 2/14/2017
Subject: Marrying Fraunhofer Society (FS) and Breakthrough Energy Ventures (B

Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 21937 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 2/15/2017
Subject: Re: FR2381921 (A1) in year 1977 by Ange RATTIN

Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 21938 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 2/15/2017
Subject: Erich Schmidt instructing Schwebende Windkraftmaschine

Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 21939 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 2/15/2017
Subject: Eco Solutions recognizes AWE

Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 21940 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 2/15/2017
Subject: xercesblue.org

Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 21941 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 2/15/2017
Subject: Amirmahdi Ghasemi

Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 21942 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 2/15/2017
Subject: Re: Open source: RotoKite and Heli Wind Power

Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 21943 From: dave santos Date: 2/15/2017
Subject: Re: Erich Schmidt instructing Schwebende Windkraftmaschine

Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 21944 From: dave santos Date: 2/15/2017
Subject: Re: Eco Solutions recognizes AWE

Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 21945 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 2/15/2017
Subject: Aerial Wind Turbine

Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 21946 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 2/15/2017
Subject: Harald Eilers

Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 21947 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 2/15/2017
Subject: Mine all three rotors?

Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 21948 From: dave santos Date: 2/15/2017
Subject: Re: Amirmahdi Ghasemi

Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 21949 From: dave santos Date: 2/15/2017
Subject: Re: xercesblue.org

Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 21950 From: dave santos Date: 2/15/2017
Subject: Re: Harald Eilers

Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 21951 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 2/15/2017
Subject: Re: E-Kite Holding

Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 21952 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 2/15/2017
Subject: Re: Kite Power Solutions Ltd

Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 21953 From: dave santos Date: 2/15/2017
Subject: Re: Open source: RotoKite and Heli Wind Power

Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 21954 From: dave santos Date: 2/15/2017
Subject: Re: Kite Power Solutions Ltd

Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 21955 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 2/15/2017
Subject: Re: AIRBORNE WIND ENERGY CONVERSION SYSTEM WITH GROUND GENERATOR AND



Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 21905 From: dave santos Date: 2/10/2017
Subject: Crosswind "Iris" GW-scale AWES Concept
We know a few key facts in AWE with high certainty; facts that drive optimal design.

We know that the ideal is to extract kite-power from in-plane crosswind power-wing motion [Loyd]. We know the FAA is giving AWE a green-light to develop to 2000ft altitude. We know that the largest standard generators produce nearly a GW of electricity. We know that single unit-kites are only manageable at MW scale, so we must aggregate the output of many unit-kites to drive one maximal generator. We know many real-world power aggregation similarity cases, like, kite-stacks, dog-sleds, and mule-teams, where the power of multiple smaller units combine into a more powerful whole, by standard mechanical methods.

These specific design-driving constraints, pondered over many years, led to the following AWES design concept, hereby dubbed the "Iris": 

Presume a rectangular crosswind plane 2000ft high by 4000ft or so, spanned by a lifting kite arch. Presume a GW class groundgen at the center-bottom of the crosswind plane. Consider a radiating pattern of cableways in the crosswind plane, pumped by stacks of power-wings. This AWES conceptual rig resembles an eye's anatomical iris*, and seems to resolve the given design constraints optimally (esp. by morphing the parabolic kite arch into a sled-kite-like "muffin-top", to tap the upper corners of the crosswind rectangle).

An Iris AWES would make a grand hypnotic spectacle (pun) by the phased pumping synchrony of its vertical radial stacked power-wing cableways. Many details are subject to refinement.The stacked unit-wings could tack or shunt to pump each cableway. It would be operationally useful to launch the lifter arch first, by itself, and then haul up or down the radiating powerwing cableways, either together or individually (for hot-swap capability).

Open-AWE_IP-Cloud

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* Iris radial muscle resembles proposed AWES cableways radiating from a central groundgen, hence the working name, "Iris" (or "half iris").
Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 21906 From: Joe Faust Date: 2/10/2017
Subject: Maximilian Ranneberg
Maximilian Ranneberg
M. Ranneberg
Researcher
EnerKite GmbH

Freie Universität Berlin
​
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_University_of_Berlin​

​"Dipl.-Math. Max Ranneberg
Mathematiker, Simulation und Regelung, derzeit im gemeinsamen Forschungsprojekt bei der Beuth-Hochschule tätig"​
  

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Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 21907 From: Joe Faust Date: 2/10/2017
Subject: EnerKite GMBH patents
​

Please add to list to make it complete.  Shown is probably not complete. Thank you.

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DE) FLUGWINDKRAFTANLAGE MIT MEHREREN SEILEN IM YOYO-BETRIEB
(EN) FLIGHT-BASED WIND POWER PLANT WITH MULTIPLE CABLES OPERATING ON THE YOYO PRINCIPLE
(FR) ÉOLIENNE VOLANTE MULTICÂBLES À FONCTIONNEMENT EN YOYO

WO2014040716

KÖVESDI, Peter; Feilnerstrasse 3 10969 Berlin (DE)
KÄMPF, Bernhard; Amselstrasse 7 15738 Zeuthen (DE)
GEBHARDT, Christian; Marienburger Strasse 25 10437 Berlin (DE)

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(DE) GEFESSELTES FLÜGELSYSTEM ZUR WINDENERGIENUTZUNG
(EN) FETTERED WING SYSTEM FOR WIND ENERGY USE
(FR) SYSTÈME D'AILE CAPTIVE SERVANT À EXPLOITER L'ÉNERGIE ÉOLIENNE

WO2014040747

BORMANN, Alexander; (DE).
SKUTNIK, Stefan; (DE).
GEBHARDT, Christian; (DE).
RANNEBERG, Maximilian; (DE)

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(DE) TRIEBSTRANG UND VERFAHREN FÜR ANTRIEBE MIT WEIT ENTFERNTEN BETRIEBSPUNKTEN
(EN) DRIVE TRAIN AND METHOD FOR DRIVES HAVING WIDELY SPACED OPERATING POINTS
(FR) CHAÎNE CINÉMATIQUE POUR MÉCANISMES D'ENTRAÎNEMENT À POINTS DE FONCTIONNEMENT TRÈS ÉLOIGNÉS

WO2015032491

KÖVESDI, Peter; (DE).
DREIER, Jan-Eike; (DE)

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(DE) SYSTEM ZUM STARTEN UND LANDEN EINER FLUGFÄHIGEN FLÜGELKONSTRUKTION
(EN) SYSTEM FOR STARTING AND LANDING A FLIGHT-CAPABLE WING CONSTRUCTION
(FR) SYSTÈME DE LANCEMENT ET D'ATTERRISSAGE D'UNE STRUCTURE D'AILE APTE AU VOL

WO2015198141  

KÖVESDI, Peter; (DE).
GEBHARDT, Christian; (DE)

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Related brochure:

http://www.bachmann.info/uploads/tx_sbdownloader/Applikationsbeitrag_enerkite_EN_web_04.pdf

Related paper:

Development of a Three-Line Ground-Actuated
Airborne Wind Energy Converter
https://www.fundernation.eu/funderworld/upload/doc/ch24_10.1007_978-3-642-39965-7_24_.pdf
Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 21908 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 2/10/2017
Subject: HAWT Kite with Ram Air Drive (3)

Hi JoeF,

Please post the attached drawing for me, called "HAWT Kite with Ram Air Drive (3)”. Much thanks.

I added a tail vane, and an overspeed control device in the form of a sliding disc. When the spring-loaded disc is pushed aft by strong winds, it pulls cords to feather the blades. An alternative would be to use two small paddles on short arms that are hinged to the inward shafts of the blades such that when the wind forces them aft, they pull cords to feather the blades. That solution would probably be better because it would not be subject to icing, and because it could be lighter.

PeterS

http://www.energykitesystems.net/SharpKites/HAWTKitewithRamAirDriveV3.jpg

 
Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 21909 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 2/10/2017
Subject: Re: Crosswind "Iris" GW-scale AWES Concept


Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 21910 From: dave santos Date: 2/10/2017
Subject: String-Shooting "Flying Rope" variant
Science teacher, Bruce Yeany's novel string-shooting demo suggests the high-speed rope dynamics that may occur in AWES rope drives, as well as many other possible applications-
Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 21911 From: Joe Faust Date: 2/10/2017
Subject: Re: String-Shooting "Flying Rope" variant
​Excellent find: the string shooter with its loop restraint!
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Here is a something from the spider world:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSwvH6YhqIM
Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 21912 From: benhaiemp Date: 2/11/2017
Subject: Re: String-Shooting "Flying Rope" variant

Interesting link. Does someone know the speed of the needed rope rotation? Perhaps a loop belt rotating could overcome its own drag. 


PierreB
Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 21913 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 2/11/2017
Subject: Charles Proteus Steinmetz

Charles Proteus Steinmetz

Karl August Rudolph Steinmetz

===================Non-empty interface with AWE

Start:

https://books.google.com/books?id=Ncs3AAAAQBAJ&lpg=PA171&ots=NRHc02gRmI&dq=Steinmetz%20glider&pg=PA171#v=onepage&q&f=false

and

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Proteus_Steinmetz

and

http://ushawks.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=1109

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Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 21914 From: dave santos Date: 2/11/2017
Subject: Re: String-Shooting "Flying Rope" variant
Yeany estimates his strings are shot at about 25mph, which is close to the speed of the model car wheels in normal use. Its the mass-limit of the string that limits the distance it can be shot. A heavy metal chain could be shot very far. Tungsten chain could be shot at  
Interesting link. Does someone know the speed of the needed rope rotation? Perhaps a loop belt rotating could overcome its own drag. 

PierreB
Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 21915 From: dave santos Date: 2/11/2017
Subject: Re: Charles Proteus Steinmetz
Steinmetz's unsatisfactory efforts at flight resemble many AWE efforts that are not founded on the "the Right Stuff". His formidable talent and focus lay elsewhere in the technology of his time. The full story of flight was more varied than normally imagined; many poorly remembered teams were trying to fly, and Steinmetz's team is mostly remembered in flight because of his great fame in other engineering fields.

The Wright Bros had several critical advantages. They were expert kiters and bike mechanics with aviation focus and direct hands-on empiricism. Steinmetz was more cerebral, and his best ideas tended to start as mathematical engineering solutions to large-scale electrical challenges.


On Saturday, February 11, 2017 7:50 AM, "joefaust333@gmail.com [AirborneWindEnergy]" <AirborneWindEnergy@yahoogroups.com  
Charles Proteus Steinmetz
Karl August Rudolph Steinmetz
===================Non-empty interface with AWE
Start:
and
and
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Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 21916 From: dave santos Date: 2/11/2017
Subject: Water Jets to >300m Altitude
Who knows what novel uses of this sort of impressive capability might develop? AWE itself is a logical theoretic source of the energy required:

Wkpd: "...the fountain jets water to a maximum height, according to different sources, of either 260 metres (853 ft)[3][4][5]or 312 m (1,024 ft)[1] above the Red Sea. (Even at the lower figure, King Fahd's Fountain would easily be the world's tallest; the second-tallest is the World Cup Fountain in Seoul, South Korea, with a water height of about 202 m (663 ft).)
The fountain is visible throughout the vicinity of Jeddah. The water it ejects can reach a speed of 375 km/h (233 mph) and its airborne mass can exceed 16 tonnes (18 short tons)."
Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 21917 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 2/11/2017
Subject: Re: Charles Proteus Steinmetz
Steinmetz' work on electricity seems to be affecting the electrical aspects of AWE. His artificial lightning forms part of the bulk concerns AWE will have with lightning. High voltage transmission of kitricity may well have some Steinmetz marks. That he organized a group of men to pay attention to gliding flight seems to have added to the large program of getting things going. 

His distribution of a fake glider flight may have lured some to apply themselves to the flight arena.
Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 21918 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 2/11/2017
Subject: Re: Water Jets to >300m Altitude
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhAoPJBjTc0
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Or we have inverted kite fountains where water is pumped up or lifted up otherwise for kite-system altitude delivery.  
Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 21919 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 2/11/2017
Subject: Re: Minesto news
Some added info on the aim to go 80 MW at same site: 

Minesto eyes 80 MW tidal farm off Wales

Written by  OE Staff Thursday, 09 February 2017 03:3
Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 21920 From: dave santos Date: 2/11/2017
Subject: Re: Charles Proteus Steinmetz
In the history of flight, and many other domains, the winning culture of excellence is often a tiny minority that nevertheless depends on the existence of a far larger less fortunate community. For example, in art and music, the greatest are rare in proportion to the merely talented.

In AWE, we may depend on many failures by numerous talented contenders to set the stage for the ultimate success of some elite faction, as a sort of Darwinian process. Steinmetz won the race in AC grid tech. His greatness in developing AC logic could in fact yet inspire us in oscillating kite problems, but his glider society and lightning demos are more characteristic of broad technological ferment, rather than the very pinnacles.


On Saturday, February 11, 2017 10:48 AM, "joefaust333@gmail.com [AirborneWindEnergy]" <AirborneWindEnergy@yahoogroups.com  
Steinmetz' work on electricity seems to be affecting the electrical aspects of AWE. His artificial lightning forms part of the bulk concerns AWE will have with lightning. High voltage transmission of kitricity may well have some Steinmetz marks. That he organized a group of men to pay attention to gliding flight seems to have added to the large program of getting things going. 

His distribution of a fake glider flight may have lured some to apply themselves to the flight arena.
Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 21921 From: dave santos Date: 2/11/2017
Subject: Re: Minesto news
We are seeing a good balance between due-diligence and raw opportunity. Minesto intends to build out the 80MW "gradual expansion" over "several generations". Dr. Edlund seems to be doing a good job laying out the R&D path from "from demonstrator to full industrial roll-out". 

The implication is clear that this can be a laboratory for paravane energy variants, since most of the leveraging is infrastructural rather than a fixed technological down-select. Minesto may evenually figure in AWE if they become cash-heavy, and understand the kite as a multi-media energy harvester. An nice starting experiment will be a Hapa based on its Deep Green submarine unit towed by a ship kite above.



On Saturday, February 11, 2017 11:26 AM, "joefaust333@gmail.com [AirborneWindEnergy]" <AirborneWindEnergy@yahoogroups.com  
Some added info on the aim to go 80 MW at same site: 

Minesto eyes 80 MW tidal farm off Wales

Written by  OE Staff Thursday, 09 February 2017 03:3
Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 21922 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 2/11/2017
Subject: Joško Deur
Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 21923 From: dave santos Date: 2/11/2017
Subject: Drones deploy membrane roll-stock
We predicted the technological operation, but not the Aurora-
Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 21924 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 2/11/2017
Subject: Customer: Five-units on order

Customer: Five-units on order

System type: Rigid wing in pumping system

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Name of customer: Helge Mikalsen

Units on order:   5

http://www.kitemill.com/article/10/Kitemill_customer_admires_the_technology/


New aircraft developed by Kitemill

tested at end of 2016
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Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 21925 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 2/11/2017
Subject: KiteMill crowdfunding video at end of 2016


KiteMill crowdfunding video at end of 2016


The closed crowdfunding page may still be read: 

https://www.invesdor.com/en/pitches/756


=================================

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfBceLa3pvQ
Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 21926 From: dave santos Date: 2/12/2017
Subject: Re: Customer: Five-units on order
Nice glider-kite. They seem to have scrapped VTOL capability in favor of winch-launch from a dolly, in order to scale up to 7.5m WS, which is still modest in probable ratable power (~20kW).

In the video they recognize "reliability" as their top challenge, which also means safety, as this glider is now large and fast enough to really hurt someone. Five units means they might simulate a five year payback-cycle in one year, that while not an ideal statistical sampling, would still be impressive. Chances are most units would crash sometime during the year, owing to imperfect automation of chaotic kiteplane-tether interaction.

KiteMill and Ampyx have closely overlapping AWES architectures. Its hard to see much difference, but KiteMill seems advantaged in having its dedicated airport with multiple units, while Ampyx has huffed-and-puffed about kitefarms in Canada and Australia. Ampyx has had more time and raised more money, but KiteMill has fresh working capital* while Ampyx is supposed strained and likely laying-off staff. 

The testing endgame for the hot glider AWES architecture is predicted to be poor scalability, fragility, and high capital cost of a rigid cantilever wing. This next year may settle the question. Congratulations to KiteMill on a fine effort so far, and good luck responding to tested outcome so as keep moving forward. They will still have the airport kitefarm if forced to migrate to other AWES architectures to stay in AWE.
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* Norwegian Krone = 0.12 USD 




On Saturday, February 11, 2017 2:29 PM, "joefaust333@gmail.com [AirborneWindEnergy]" <AirborneWindEnergy@yahoogroups.com  
Customer: Five-units on order
System type: Rigid wing in pumping system
===========================================
Name of customer: Helge Mikalsen
Units on order:   5

New aircraft developed by Kitemill

tested at end of 2016
========================
Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 21927 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 2/12/2017
Subject: Send some AWE note to the editor of Upper Windpower.

Send some AWE note to the editor of Upper Windpower.


Check out the new online easy send form:

http://www.EnergyKiteSystems.net/Form001AWE.html

See you there!
Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 21928 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 2/13/2017
Subject: Replacing a tether during flight

Have a tethered AWES up flying. Have one or many tethers in the system. Care to replace a tether while keeping the wing set operating. 

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Start:

(WO2013165253) METHOD AND A DEVICE FOR MAINTAINING OR REPLACING A TETHER LINE 
Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 21929 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 2/13/2017
Subject: Re: Forum headline images
Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 21930 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 2/13/2017
Subject: Multi-mass dynamic model of a variable-length tether used in a high

Multi-mass dynamic model of a variable-length tether used in a high altitude wind energy system


Milan Milutinovic´ ⇑, Nenad Kranjcˇevic´ , Joško Deur

Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

==============================

Might be available via a pay gate

or by private connection with one of the authors


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Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 21931 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 2/14/2017
Subject: Re: Billion-dollar Breakthrough Energy Venture Fund formally launche
< Bill Gates   :: 
Art01 |  Art02  |    
"Here, we want to give 
a little bit of money 
to the guy 
who thinks 
that high wind 
will work;" 
Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 21932 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 2/14/2017
Subject: Re: Billion-dollar Breakthrough Energy Venture Fund formally launche


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Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 21933 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 2/14/2017
Subject: Re: Billion-dollar Breakthrough Energy Venture Fund formally launche


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Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 21934 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 2/14/2017
Subject: Re: Billion-dollar Breakthrough Energy Venture Fund formally launche


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Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 21935 From: dave santos Date: 2/14/2017
Subject: Marrying Fraunhofer Society (FS) and Breakthrough Energy Ventures (B
Its been wonderful to witness the early growth of AWE to its present pregnant state. Two big players we have watched in particular are poised to take a leading role together in expanded R&D, if we can bring them together. 

Starting in 2011, we became aware the Fraunhofer Society (FS) working with German AWE startups. The Society is a top non-profit engineering giant with over sixty branches worldwide. Fraunhofer USA staff expressed written interest in FS serving as a third-party evaluator of AWE tech in flyoff testing. On another front, we followed Bill Gates in creating the multi-billion Breakthrough Energy Ventures (BEV) fund. Bill has blogged and spoken publicly about high wind since 2010, and BEV is now ready to move forward. Early on a "Fraunhofer Plan" was proposed on the AWES Forum. In the most general description, its a 100 million AWE R&D program where FS would act as "referee" of a sort of "AWE Grand Challenge", but at its core a serious research culture is to govern the program, with funded participation not just of AWE ventures, but Academia as well. 

The Fraunhofer Plan is now being updated to present to BEV managers as the best possible AWE research strategy. If your team has been notable in AWE R&D for a long time, your name is probably already in the hat, because you stated positive intent. If you are new or unsure of your teams' or anyone's inclusion status, reply to this topic or me or Joe. Folks are invited to participate in the current FS-BEV process directly; there is a lot of work to do to refine plan details, and such work-on-speculation should turn out to be billable according to a successful outcome of an FS-BEV marriage. Stay tuned for news. Thanks for any feedback.
Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 21937 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 2/15/2017
Subject: Re: FR2381921 (A1) in year 1977 by Ange RATTIN
Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 21938 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 2/15/2017
Subject: Erich Schmidt instructing Schwebende Windkraftmaschine


Page bookmarkDE3003873 (A1)  -  Floating energy machine for generator driven by wind power -  has pair of parallel shafts with mechanism regulating blades into most favourable position w.r.t. wind
Inventor(s):SCHMIDT ERICH DIPL PHYS [DE] +
Applicant(s):DEUTSCHE FORSCH LUFT RAUMFAHRT [DE] +
Classification:
- international:F03D11/04; (IPC1-7): F03D11/04
- cooperative:
Application number:DE19803003873 19800202 
Priority number(s):DE19803003873 19800202
Also published as:

Notes by JoeF:=============================== 

Reefed streamlined tether. 

1980

Aggregate

Schwebende Windkraftmaschine
Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 21939 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 2/15/2017
Subject: Eco Solutions recognizes AWE
Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 21940 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 2/15/2017
Subject: xercesblue.org

http://www.xercesblue.org/index_en.html

recognizes AWE



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Heli Wind

HeliWind

Heli-Wind

heliwind
Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 21941 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 2/15/2017
Subject: Amirmahdi Ghasemi
Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 21942 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 2/15/2017
Subject: Re: Open source: RotoKite and Heli Wind Power
Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 21943 From: dave santos Date: 2/15/2017
Subject: Re: Erich Schmidt instructing Schwebende Windkraftmaschine
An amazing concept for 1981, but with some nearly impossible challenges. Here we see large flygen arrays made up of inflated vertical wing units with twin rotors at the top wing tips, The vertical wing tethers could be made to sweep crosswind, but all of them would have to fly in perfect formation all the time, which is not feasible even today, with the best flight automation. Nevertheless, there is a lot of impressive insight; for example, the recognition of rotor/wing unit scaling limits, which require a high-count array to offset.

This would be a good AWES science fiction movie concept set in the year 2050, with dense forests of these swaying in the jet stream.


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Page bookmarkDE3003873 (A1)  -  Floating energy machine for generator driven by wind power -  has pair of parallel shafts with mechanism regulating blades into most favourable position w.r.t. wind
Inventor(s):SCHMIDT ERICH DIPL PHYS [DE] +
Applicant(s):DEUTSCHE FORSCH LUFT RAUMFAHRT [DE] +
Classification:
- international:F03D11/04; (IPC1-7): F03D11/04
- cooperative:
Application number:DE19803003873 19800202 
Priority number(s):DE19803003873 19800202
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Notes by JoeF:=============================== 
Reefed streamlined tether. 
1980
Aggregate
Schwebende Windkraftmaschine
Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 21944 From: dave santos Date: 2/15/2017
Subject: Re: Eco Solutions recognizes AWE
Apex-Portal itself is a mysterious amalgam of modernist tropes, from New Age business aspirations to green lifestyle. Its anomalously extensive AWE overview is embedded in a vast cosmopolitan panorama of topical content. This is one of a handful of major AWE knowledge troves, but we still do not have a name for the AWE content topic developer. Its more of a fine neutral collecting of many rare sources than an analytic tour-de-force. While there are gaps in the presentation, it still reflects just how vast the topic of AWE really is. A very valuable contribution to seeing AWE as a major technological field.


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Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 21945 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 2/15/2017
Subject: Aerial Wind Turbine

Aerial Wind Turbine


Worcester Polytechnic Institute In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Science Submitted 

By: 

Kevin Martinez 

Andrew McIsaac 

Devin Thayer


Advisor: Professor Gretar Tryggvason 

Date: April 30, 2009

http://www3.nd.edu/~gtryggva/
Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 21946 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 2/15/2017
Subject: Harald Eilers

Harald Eilers

(click through his name for the patent)

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(DE) SCHWEBENDE WINDKRAFTANLAGE MIT EINEM WINDKONZENTRATOR
(EN) SUSPENDED WIND POWER PLANT COMPRISING A WIND CONCENTRATOR
(FR) ÉOLIENNE


Priority date: 30 April 2007 (30.04.2007)

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Comment start:

He marches through several variations on his theme. 
Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 21947 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 2/15/2017
Subject: Mine all three rotors?
Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 21948 From: dave santos Date: 2/15/2017
Subject: Re: Amirmahdi Ghasemi
Once again we see WPI "punching above its weight". Its not considered a first-tier school in most elitist rankings, but in AWE, its near the top. We recall WPI as perhaps the first academic player in AWE, going back to Professor Jittrenda Goela in the early '80s.

Ghasemi is part of Professor Dave Olinger's team that has been working on paravane power, and they have dubbed the tech as "TUSK" (tethered under-sea kites). Here we see them presenting and publishing recent TUSK work within the respectable ASME framework, which signals this is no fringe technology. This work also shows Minesto has only a small head-start, and no monopoly in TUSK.


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Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 21949 From: dave santos Date: 2/15/2017
Subject: Re: xercesblue.org
A vintage AWE website from about ten years ago. XercesBlue was a nonprofit within the KiteGen sphere, and is presumed dormant.


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recognizes AWE


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Heli Wind
HeliWind
Heli-Wind
heliwind
Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 21950 From: dave santos Date: 2/15/2017
Subject: Re: Harald Eilers
A LTA ducted-turbine concept similar to Altaeros. This is a dubious trade-off from the perspective of LCOE, since LTA with a complex low volume geometry, flygen dependence, duct mass/drag, storm-risk, and so on. The advantage is that its like a child's balloon in calm; no need to land, motor-hover, reverse-pump, or step or circle-tow.

No end in sight for obscure AWE patents. Its been an obvious concept to some for two centuries. AWE patents will continue to seep out for the lack of consistent language in past times, when inventors omitted or denied the k-word on various grounds. Deliberately obscure language to slow disclosure was and still is used. Then there is the global patent system as whole, which long was not a whole, but a small enclave of high-patent countries with language barriers the norm. Old AWE patents are appearing solely because digital search is maturing. Then there is China, and the rest of the emerging global community. In toady's hyper-awareness of energy challenges, millions of AWE patents may be filed, without validity testing, to collect government fees from naive "AWE inventors", and make work for litigators. The end of humanity may be when robots finally replace these inventors and lawyers. 


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(click through his name for the patent)
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(DE) SCHWEBENDE WINDKRAFTANLAGE MIT EINEM WINDKONZENTRATOR
(EN) SUSPENDED WIND POWER PLANT COMPRISING A WIND CONCENTRATOR
(FR) ÉOLIENNE

Priority date: 30 April 2007 (30.04.2007)
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Comment start:
He marches through several variations on his theme. 
Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 21951 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 2/15/2017
Subject: Re: E-Kite Holding

WIND POWER GENERATION SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME  



Page bookmarkWO2016085337 (A1)  -  WIND POWER GENERATION SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME
Inventor(s):VAN DEN BRINK ALFRED [NL] +
Applicant(s):KITE HOLDING B V E [NL] +
Classification:
- international:F03D5/00
- cooperative:
Application number:WO2015NL50824 20151125       Global Dossier
Priority number(s):NL20142013876 20141126
Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 21952 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 2/15/2017
Subject: Re: Kite Power Solutions Ltd

A WINCH  


Page bookmarkWO2016083822 (A1)  -  A WINCH
Inventor(s):HAMPTON WILLIAM [GB] +
Applicant(s):KITE POWER SOLUTIONS LTD [GB] +
Classification:
- international:B66D1/38; F03D5/00
- cooperative:
Application number:WO2015GB53618 20151127       Global Dossier
Priority number(s):GB20140021060 20141127
Also published as:
Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 21953 From: dave santos Date: 2/15/2017
Subject: Re: Open source: RotoKite and Heli Wind Power
While Gianni's Heli WInd Power AWES owes a lot to [Roberts, et al], there are some nice new details. I particularly like the bridled rotor as a means to save weight by span-loading the disc area, since this is a trick that worked well for KiteLab Ilwaco to reduce rotor blade root mass.

This is another case of a stillborn AWES concept in the orbits of KiteGen. Major Italian AWE R&D funding was monopolized by KiteGen, but would have been far more nicely spent across the broader group of Italian players. If only KiteGen had delivered on its grandiose promises, the marginalization of wider Italian AWE would not be so sad. There is fresh hope in Italian AWE; stay tuned.


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Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 21954 From: dave santos Date: 2/15/2017
Subject: Re: Kite Power Solutions Ltd
There is no end to winch prior-art, so this patent cannot be validated for novelty, but it does serve as a utility-patent, and will help satisfy those investors who demand "do you have a patent?", regardless of actual value.


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A WINCH  


Page bookmarkWO2016083822 (A1)  -  A WINCH
Inventor(s):HAMPTON WILLIAM [GB] +
Applicant(s):KITE POWER SOLUTIONS LTD [GB] +
Classification:
- international:B66D1/38; F03D5/00
- cooperative:
Application number:WO2015GB53618 20151127       Global Dossier
Priority number(s):GB20140021060 20141127
Also published as:
Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 21955 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 2/15/2017
Subject: Re: AIRBORNE WIND ENERGY CONVERSION SYSTEM WITH GROUND GENERATOR AND

Correcting link to: 



Page bookmarkUS9239041 (B2)  -  Airborne wind energy conversion system with ground generator and unorthodox power capture or transfer
Inventor(s):GOLDSTEIN LEONID [US] +
Applicant(s):GOLDSTEIN LEONID [US] +
Classification:
- international:B64C39/02; F03D5/06; F03D9/00
- cooperative:
Application number:US201514601173 20150120       Global Dossier
Priority number(s):US201514601173 20150120 ; WO2013US51419 20130721 ; US201261674372P 20120722 ; US201261676976P 20120729 ; US201261678703P 20120802 ; US201261679859P 20120806 ; US201261680780P 20120808
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