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Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 22773 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 6/7/2017
Subject: Re: Kite String and Effective String Theory

Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 22774 From: olivierabristol Date: 6/7/2017
Subject: Re: Kitewinder's KiweeOne product nears release

Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 22775 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 6/8/2017
Subject: Re: Wave-Energy and Kite Principle

Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 22776 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 6/8/2017
Subject: Re: Ampyx Major Disclosure in Three Parts

Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 22777 From: dave santos Date: 6/9/2017
Subject: Dr Mark Moore leaves NASA for Uber Flying-Car R&D

Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 22778 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 6/9/2017
Subject: Re: What is a drone?

Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 22779 From: Joe Faust Date: 6/9/2017
Subject: Fwd: Omnidea tethered airborne platform

Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 22780 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 6/9/2017
Subject: Re: Fwd: Omnidea tethered airborne platform

Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 22781 From: dave santos Date: 6/9/2017
Subject: Videos of Collective Excitations in Kite Trains

Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 22782 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 6/9/2017
Subject: Re: Spider Kite Systems

Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 22783 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 6/10/2017
Subject: Hikers' Wind

Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 22784 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 6/10/2017
Subject: Re: Videos of Collective Excitations in Kite Trains

Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 22785 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 6/10/2017
Subject: Re: Videos of Collective Excitations in Kite Trains

Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 22786 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 6/10/2017
Subject: Re: Videos of Collective Excitations in Kite Trains

Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 22787 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 6/10/2017
Subject: Re: Videos of Collective Excitations in Kite Trains

Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 22788 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 6/10/2017
Subject: Re: Kite Power Solutions (KPS) ... news point

Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 22789 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 6/10/2017
Subject: India AWE

Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 22790 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 6/10/2017
Subject: Andreas Bruun Okholm and Gustaf Kugelberg at KiteX

Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 22791 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 6/11/2017
Subject: Cavexity

Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 22792 From: dave santos Date: 6/12/2017
Subject: Re: Hikers' Wind

Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 22793 From: dave santos Date: 6/12/2017
Subject: KitePower Commercial Prototype

Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 22794 From: dave santos Date: 6/12/2017
Subject: Re: Cavexity

Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 22795 From: dave santos Date: 6/12/2017
Subject: Re: India AWE

Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 22796 From: dave santos Date: 6/12/2017
Subject: AWEfest BETA on Texas Gulf Coast this weekend

Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 22797 From: dave santos Date: 6/12/2017
Subject: New Tech Kite Line Spiral Turbine

Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 22798 From: dave santos Date: 6/13/2017
Subject: Re: AWEfest BETA on Texas Gulf Coast this weekend

Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 22799 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 6/13/2017
Subject: Re: Kite Scooter (progress in kitesailing)

Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 22800 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 6/13/2017
Subject: Lyle R. Dressler

Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 22801 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 6/13/2017
Subject: Re: World looking at AWE

Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 22802 From: dave santos Date: 6/13/2017
Subject: AWES Lattice Design Primer

Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 22803 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 6/13/2017
Subject: Re: AWES Lattice Design Primer

Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 22804 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 6/14/2017
Subject: Re: WindLift Update

Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 22805 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 6/14/2017
Subject: Trichy (for the record)

Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 22806 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 6/14/2017
Subject: Re: Trichy (for the record)

Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 22807 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 6/14/2017
Subject: Re: Trichy (for the record)

Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 22808 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 6/14/2017
Subject: Re: KiteGen

Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 22809 From: dave santos Date: 6/14/2017
Subject: Re: KiteGen

Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 22810 From: dave santos Date: 6/14/2017
Subject: Re: Trichy (for the record)

Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 22811 From: dave santos Date: 6/15/2017
Subject: AWEfest BETA at Ambient Camping 47 on Facebook

Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 22812 From: dave santos Date: 6/15/2017
Subject: Re: AWEfest BETA at Ambient Camping 47 on Facebook [1 Attachment]

Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 22813 From: dave santos Date: 6/15/2017
Subject: Fw: Happy Global Wind Day - 15 June

Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 22814 From: dave santos Date: 6/15/2017
Subject: MegaMaterial Systems Indentification

Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 22815 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 6/15/2017
Subject: Re: World looking at AWE

Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 22816 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 6/15/2017
Subject: Re: Brief History of AWE; and why progress is so rapid

Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 22817 From: dave santos Date: 6/15/2017
Subject: Re: World looking at AWE

Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 22818 From: dave santos Date: 6/15/2017
Subject: Re: Brief History of AWE; and why progress is so rapid

Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 22819 From: dave santos Date: 6/15/2017
Subject: Bali Bebean under a Janggan AWES?

Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 22820 From: dave santos Date: 6/15/2017
Subject: Peter Lynn's obsession with perfecting soft kite flight only deepens

Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 22821 From: dave santos Date: 6/15/2017
Subject: GE Report: atmospheric geoengineering by Kurt Vonnegut's physicist b

Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 22822 From: dave santos Date: 6/15/2017
Subject: Zipline-based Aviation



Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 22773 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 6/7/2017
Subject: Re: Kite String and Effective String Theory
That is why it is suggested that AWE workers approach the paper with an "AWE eye" so that one may find meaning in the kite universe. When so done, one may be surprised how much the paper might have to do with kite systems. Exploration in patterns, models, and relationships form part of the kite-related matter. Then appreciate that what may be the structure of Universe will definitely have cutting play in the wide wonderful spectacular world or the kite.
Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 22774 From: olivierabristol Date: 6/7/2017
Subject: Re: Kitewinder's KiweeOne product nears release
some more infos on the product :

13.8 Volts DC is only for end user. We use A 48 VDC Busbar inside Kiwee. This way we will easily evolve to a larger version of Kiwee One  ... something between 300 and 500 Watts.

We produce foam blades with carbon fiber back bone and a top coat for smooth surface finishing. It is super lightweight and safer than carbon fiber.  BTW if you need some for your projects, we can supply , leave us a mail.
Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 22775 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 6/8/2017
Subject: Re: Wave-Energy and Kite Principle
Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 22776 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 6/8/2017
Subject: Re: Ampyx Major Disclosure in Three Parts
Ampyx crowdfunding: 
========================

Crowdfunding campaign very successful

 
Our recent crowdfunding campaign was a novelty in the Netherlands: investments in our company were possible via our own website. The result was well above our expectations. Not only was an amount of € 406,165.50 raised, but we could also welcome almost 300 crowdfunders from 19 countries as new co-owners of our company.
 
Prior to the campaign, more than € 1.4 million had been invested by informal investors during 2017. With these excellent results, informal investments exceeded € 1.8 million this year. Based on this, we have increased our original target of raising € 2.5 million new informal investments in 2017.
 
In September we will start a follow-up campaign for crowdfunders, and later this month we will launch our proposition for "angel investors" who are willing to invest a minimum amount of € 200,000. If you are interested in this proposition, please contact me by answering this email.

Wolbert Allaart
Director Ampyx Power
Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 22777 From: dave santos Date: 6/9/2017
Subject: Dr Mark Moore leaves NASA for Uber Flying-Car R&D
The highest-profile AWE and personal VTOL advocate within NASA, MarkM was sadly unable to get the entrenched bureaucracy to respond to the opportunities. He decided to leave NASA in order to work on personal VTOL with Uber. Best of luck to Mark, who no doubt will continue supportive of AWE R&D, as an even more significant future aerospace tech-
Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 22778 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 6/9/2017
Subject: Re: What is a drone?

June 10,2017, The Economist used the term "drone" in the AWE realm in its online article
"Can drones deliver the goods?
Why the wait for delivery drones may be longer than expected
Carrying cargo is a lot more complicated than carrying a camera"


"High-altitude drones have also been proposed as a way to generate electricity, because strong winds blow more reliably well above the ground. Known as wind drones or energy kites, such drones are tethered so that cables can deliver the electricity back to the ground. Makani, a startup acquired by Google in 2013, reckons a single energy kite can generate 50% more electricity than a single wind turbine while using only 10% of the materials. Each Makani drone, which resembles a wing with eight propellers, weighs 11 tonnes, compared with about 100 tonnes for a comparable 600kW turbine. This approach is being pursued by other firms too, including Ampyx Power and Kite Power Systems, both backed by E.ON, a German utility. Tethered drones on a smaller scale are also being considered for indoor use in warehouses, where they might help with stocktaking. Flying indoors neatly sidesteps many regulatory problems, and supplying power via tethers does away with the need for recharging. But GPS cannot be used for positioning."
Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 22779 From: Joe Faust Date: 6/9/2017
Subject: Fwd: Omnidea tethered airborne platform
Attachments :

    ---------- Forwarded message ----------
    From: Pedro Silva <pedro.silva@omnidea.net

    Hi,

    Just to share with you guys a video of our tethered platform.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=NiNV4EwNrjo



    Best regards,


    Pedro Silva
    System Engineer
    Descrição: logo2
     Tel: +351 211 913 169 / 499
    www.omnidea.net


    Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 22780 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 6/9/2017
    Subject: Re: Fwd: Omnidea tethered airborne platform
    Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 22781 From: dave santos Date: 6/9/2017
    Subject: Videos of Collective Excitations in Kite Trains
    Toy kite trains perform autonomous flight and spontaneously develop energetic lattice-waves. This is the tangible basis of AWES metamaterial thinking aimed at GW scale, as covered in various posts. Crosswind PTO line networks could harvest the waves of many parallel trains in 2D array.
    Wubbo's SpiderMill is a closely related AWES Concept, as a particular topology of a branching pumping collective excitation kite train.

    Here two hobby kite pros fly toy dancing trains, nicely showing the characteristic dynamics. JimN's train tears itself apart, a signal of power-
    Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 22782 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 6/9/2017
    Subject: Re: Spider Kite Systems

    Web forms and the phylogeny of theridiid spiders (Araneae: Theridiidae): Chaos from order

    William Eberhard
    Ingi Agnarsson
    Herbert W. Levi

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    Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 22783 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 6/10/2017
    Subject: Hikers' Wind

    The following is presented in AWES for the sake study of Nils Ferber's device's structure and market for his near-AWE tri-blade VAWT device.   

    http://tinyurl.com/NilsFerberVAWT

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

    AWE realm has already some competing devices in the market being faced by Nils Ferber.


    Competition in similar market would come from HAWT from similar structure modalities.

    Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 22784 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 6/10/2017
    Subject: Re: Videos of Collective Excitations in Kite Trains

    Joining a prior:

    This kite has 29 wings besides its tethers and anchor:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbNEbwAw0bA


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    Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 22785 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 6/10/2017
    Subject: Re: Videos of Collective Excitations in Kite Trains
    Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 22786 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 6/10/2017
    Subject: Re: Videos of Collective Excitations in Kite Trains

    Another repeat to join collection:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvCIeWlJdms

    Giant dragon
    Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 22787 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 6/10/2017
    Subject: Re: Videos of Collective Excitations in Kite Trains
    Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 22788 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 6/10/2017
    Subject: Re: Kite Power Solutions (KPS) ... news point
    Presentation on June 23, 2017: 
    at TU Delft as a welcomed spin-off of TUD: 
    Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 22789 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 6/10/2017
    Subject: India AWE

    Track AWE in India in this topic thread. 

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

    Hopeful author nods to AWE: 

    Shebonti Ray Dadwal
    June 09, 2017
    Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 22790 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 6/10/2017
    Subject: Andreas Bruun Okholm and Gustaf Kugelberg at KiteX
    http://kitex.tech/
    KiteX  
    "Combining drones and kite technology to build cost effective wind turbines" 
    Andreas Bruun Okholm 
     Gustaf Kugelberg 

     Then key advisors: 
    Mac Gaunaa 
    Marc Münzer 
    Rolf Østergaard
    Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 22791 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 6/11/2017
    Subject: Cavexity

    cavex

    cavexing

    cavexity

    cavexion

    cavexor

    cavexors

    These terms are largely neologisms that I formed to express some common art and some uncommon art where a line holds via tension two parts of a surface or surfaces.  Often there is tendency to see the concave and convex results in the tensional scenes; I combined the development into one word: cavex.  The line segment involved is a cavexor. The tensional scene shows cavexion. Cavexors are helping to cavex an arrangement. The art global matter is cavexity. An action term could be to cavex. A command could be "cavex it". Cavexors is the plural of cavexor.      Cavexors may vary in elasticity, size, strength, color, cost, etc.  To cavex an extant set of surfaces involves various technologies from labor-intensive manual cavexing to mass-production robotic cavexing.  The Inflatoplane airfoil using Goodyear drop stitching illustrate one instance of cavexing.  The ribs in Jalbert-parafoil evolutes are essentially aggregate cavexors.  Buttoning some mattresses from upper surface to lower surface uses cavexion.  Cavexors may be designed to provide shape, retain shape, rebound, non-rebound (giving without return), reset arrangements, control of aerodynamics, and more.

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

    This topic thread is for advancing cavexing crafts with an AWE eye through information sharing and discussion on such.

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

    A slight first mention in forum in 2015:

    https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/AirborneWindEnergy/conversations/messages/18149

    ===================================================
    Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 22792 From: dave santos Date: 6/12/2017
    Subject: Re: Hikers' Wind
    The R&D engineering ideal is to test both good and bad, and let data indicate winners and losers. Novelty turbine marketing claims are typically made in isolation by interest-conflicted developers with no eagerness for comparative testing against all competitors. As personal wind turbine products continue to proliferate, it becomes economical and practical to collect them into a statistical ensemble for third-party testing, to evaluate critical factors, like power-to-weight performance predictive of AWE scalability.

    This Savonius VAWT, like other VAWTs, does not seem to offer any true advantage over comparable-mass HAWTs, but the VAWT designers argue otherwise, with no clarity for the average person, who is best served by sound test results, not hype. Fortunately, the funds and talent to settle VAWT marketing claims are more abundant than ever, at least in AWE, but VAWT AWES developers must come up with competitive hardware to fly-off with. A brilliantly detail-engineered small VAWT AWES might still have some commercial success, if never scale up.
    On ‎Saturday‎, ‎June‎ ‎10‎, ‎2017‎ ‎09‎:‎13‎:‎11‎ ‎AM‎ ‎CDT, joefaust333@gmail.com [AirborneWindEnergy] <AirborneWindEnergy@yahoogroups.com  

    The following is presented in AWES for the sake study of Nils Ferber's device's structure and market for his near-AWE tri-blade VAWT device.   

    http://tinyurl.com/NilsFerberVAWT

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

    AWE realm has already some competing devices in the market being faced by Nils Ferber.


    Competition in similar market would come from HAWT from similar structure modalities.

    Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 22793 From: dave santos Date: 6/12/2017
    Subject: KitePower Commercial Prototype
    Moving TUDelft news from KPS topic-


    This 100kW prototype puts KitePower in the scaling race with Ampyx and Makani, while other AWES architectures continue developing or languish at small scale, awaiting the funding level needed to scale up. So we could see the next year or two selecting an early favorite at large scale from this trio to compete with whatever new entrants emerge to large-scale AWES practice.

    SkySails was expected to be currently competing in this group, but perhaps high reeling return-phase losses blocked further advance of ship kites in reeling. This would be bad news for KitePower, with similar reeling dependence and similar lower L/D than Ampyx. Lower L/D soft kite wings seem to require pure crosswind load-motion to out-perform rigid wings. On the other hand, rigid AWE wing developers are not yet showing the giant leaps in crash reliability required for capital pay-back.

    Noting Dromec, a winch manufacturer, as an AWE entrant, via KitePower. Reeling AWES architectures especially depend on advanced winch design, while some architectures avoid winches altogether by alternative methods of kite handling.

    http://www.dromec.nl/web/en/1_home.htm
    Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 22794 From: dave santos Date: 6/12/2017
    Subject: Re: Cavexity
    Attachments :
      We may be seeing new extensions to geometric topology inspired by kitematter observations. Like so many other analogue models, the kite can in turn advance physics as well as be advanced.

      A few notes supporting Cavex Theory-

      		   @@attachment@@
      Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 22795 From: dave santos Date: 6/12/2017
      Subject: Re: India AWE
      Good enough reportage* explaining how some huge new source of energy like AWE is critical to India meeting its huge new energy ambitions. While the venue is a Indian defense information site, AWE green energy is not treated as a military asset, but more as a tacit geopolitical stabilizer.

      -----
      * Un-nuanced with regard to open tech options, but adding drip-drip increase to AWE's global public mindshare.


      On ‎Saturday‎, ‎June‎ ‎10‎, ‎2017‎ ‎07‎:‎31‎:‎32‎ ‎PM‎ ‎CDT, joefaust333@gmail.com [AirborneWindEnergy] <AirborneWindEnergy@yahoogroups.com  

      Track AWE in India in this topic thread. 

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

      Hopeful author nods to AWE: 

      Shebonti Ray Dadwal
      June 09, 2017
      Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 22796 From: dave santos Date: 6/12/2017
      Subject: AWEfest BETA on Texas Gulf Coast this weekend
      Wubbo's dying vision of a major AWE-powered festival world-tour, to raise public awareness, has so far advanced by baby steps. There have been nice fragmentary successes, like Enerkite cooking up free waffles at Templehof, or kPower making a few plaintive amplified electric guitar sounds from kFarm AWE. Its not that hard to have fun with AWE. Major AWE experiments create a party-like feeling even with just engineering teams present. Numerous small AWE demos at kite festivals also hint at the special vibe Wubbo prophesized. What's been patiently awaited is a critical-mass of AWE technology, artistic talent, and specially receptive audience.

      This weekend, in Corpus Christi, Texas, a kite-themed electronic ambient music event on the public beach will feature AWE, in collaboration with the 2017 Texas AWE Encampment. Dell software architect, Ray Luna, will provide his kite lofted light-show that previously only ran on batteries, and kPower of Austin will now power with KiteSats. kPower will also be testing looping foils driving groundgens. Event participants will include techie volunteers tapped to help AWE come together over the three day event. This is a key new phase for AWEfest development, still short of a major touring event, so call it AWEfest BETA.
      Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 22797 From: dave santos Date: 6/12/2017
      Subject: New Tech Kite Line Spiral Turbine
      New Tech is Austin-based and a leading world brand. Even knowing Mike Lin all these years, we continue to surprise each other with countless kinetic flying oddities. Here is another Rob Brasington wonder, but nothing like his Ninja Star HAWT, which happened to test first of all kite store turbines in speed and power, as tested by KiteLab. This turbine mixes odd WECS ideas promiscuously, but Brasington pulls it off with his usual Tasmanian flair. Jim Nichols has done around 1000 kite review videos. Such unique freaks are kiting's "right stuff", and AWE practice advances by wild talent as much as by aerospace expertise.
      Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 22798 From: dave santos Date: 6/13/2017
      Subject: Re: AWEfest BETA on Texas Gulf Coast this weekend
      Documenting Wubbo Ockels as the originator of the AWEfest concept, which he shared widely, including my dinner conversation with him in 2011, when we agreed to actively develop the idea, but his untimely death really set us back. There have been partial TUD attempts to do public events, but open documentation is scarce. kFarm began working on Wubbo's festival idea in 2012, gathering show elements, small working AWES experiments to aggregate, building a mobile smart-grid, acquiring light and sound gear, giant pilot kites, mobile anchors, etc. There have been several modest experimental AWEfest sessions in the last five years. Progress is slow because the primary work in AWE is general technical R&D, not  public events.

      Everyone remains invited to add their value to Wubbo's event concept, which could explode to epic scale. The event director role is open. This is a 2012 Dutchmedia interview with Wubbo, were he mentions the AWE "music festival" idea at minute 2.00- 






      On ‎Monday‎, ‎June‎ ‎12‎, ‎2017‎ ‎06‎:‎12‎:‎39‎ ‎PM‎ ‎CDT, dave santos santos137@yahoo.com [AirborneWindEnergy] <AirborneWindEnergy@yahoogroups.com  

      Wubbo's dying vision of a major AWE-powered festival world-tour, to raise public awareness, has so far advanced by baby steps. There have been nice fragmentary successes, like Enerkite cooking up free waffles at Templehof, or kPower making a few plaintive amplified electric guitar sounds from kFarm AWE. Its not that hard to have fun with AWE. Major AWE experiments create a party-like feeling even with just engineering teams present. Numerous small AWE demos at kite festivals also hint at the special vibe Wubbo prophesized. What's been patiently awaited is a critical-mass of AWE technology, artistic talent, and specially receptive audience.

      This weekend, in Corpus Christi, Texas, a kite-themed electronic ambient music event on the public beach will feature AWE, in collaboration with the 2017 Texas AWE Encampment. Dell software architect, Ray Luna, will provide his kite lofted light-show that previously only ran on batteries, and kPower of Austin will now power with KiteSats. kPower will also be testing looping foils driving groundgens. Event participants will include techie volunteers tapped to help AWE come together over the three day event. This is a key new phase for AWEfest development, still short of a major touring event, so call it AWEfest BETA.
      Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 22799 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 6/13/2017
      Subject: Re: Kite Scooter (progress in kitesailing)
      Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 22800 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 6/13/2017
      Subject: Lyle R. Dressler

      CA2433060 (A1)  -  INFLATABLE CONTROLLED KITE FOR ELECTRICAL GENERATION
      Inventor:   Lyle R. Dressler

      June 25, 2003  is one date mentioned for the document.

      Canada patent office.
      Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 22801 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 6/13/2017
      Subject: Re: World looking at AWE

      13/06/2017 | Gary Hartley

      He starts out: "Wind energy has been a great renewable energy success story. 

      But is the sector’s technology going to look the same as it does now in the future? Some industry players think not – and suggest change might come soon. "

      See his brief article HERE.
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      Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 22802 From: dave santos Date: 6/13/2017
      Subject: AWES Lattice Design Primer
      Rod recently asked about AWES 3D lattice design principles, so here is a summary of five years or so of exploring the question. Keep in mind that this emerging AWES metamaterial paradigm owes a lot to natural crystals, like herbertsmithite, and MOSFET and Hall effect semiconductor chip design as effective models, with electrons or photons as the flowing media analogue to wind. Yes, sonic relativity and QM applies, under physics criteria covered in other posts.

      A regular lattice will tend to spontaneously generate lattice waves as the flowing media ramps up to critical velocities. The key design feature is identical unit-cells closely spaced. Mathematical crystal structure is helpful, since all the simplest topological geometries are well documented. Cubic and hexagonal classes are the most intuitive, and kagome lattices are particularly "kitey". The lattice cells are carefully designed in "rag and string" as repeatable units of specific functional layers listed below. The cells must tilt or rotate to accept wind from any direction. An entire lattice can tilt to develop collective AoA, or just the cells each tilt in place. Vertical wingmill units can rotate on swivels. Wubbo's SpiderMill zig-zag geometry seems promising extended in parallel topological repetition.

      Having defined our cell types, a suitable layered multi-lattice structure is fitted to the airspace allowance. The upper layer typically will be the pilot-lift layer. Below that comes the WECS layer, as high as possible in the wind gradient, and especially tuned for aeroelastic oscillation. A PTO transmission layer stretches to the ground surface layer. The grain boundaries between layers must match point-by-point. A special design detail is the margin structure, which tends to be guy lines. Overall form tends to be lenticular, as a starting assumption. There are endless variations possible, and the speculative engineering is not much more developed than this summary. Its a wide open direction for AWES experimentation.

      On the current theoretic frontier, we can say that coherent lattice waves in our AWES lattice layer-cake allow a state-space to be defined as a time crystal. Even farther out conceptually, a periodic pattern of collective excitations (phonons) is an energy crystal. Consideration of "kitematter" thus begins to feedback to general physics progress.

      Good luck to Rod extending these hints.
      Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 22803 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 6/13/2017
      Subject: Re: AWES Lattice Design Primer
      Already hinted in your disclosure of layers and edge matters, 
      there may be alloys of kite-lattice metamatter. In the alloy direction
      cell wings may differ in sizes and types ---a kind of impurity run;
      the impurities may play special roles in the global structure. Same 
      for the lines involved: not all lines need be the same.  And also PTO
      may be spread to different spaces in a kite (here, "kite" in J-Model 
      for Kite where the whole system in focus is simply a "kite"); some
      PTO may feed aloft needs while other PTO may feed exterior-to-kite
      needs. In a lattice-based "kite" there may be rooms within the "kite" that fulfill
      varied purposes; a "room" may be small or large compared to the
      lattice-based "kite". 
      Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 22804 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 6/14/2017
      Subject: Re: WindLift Update
      June 13, 2917
      Kirsten Barber wrote 

      "Capping off a day of clean tech and IoT conversation at NC State University, five North Carolina startups pitch IoT ideas
      "

      A teasing clip from her contribution: 
      "Creighton believes that $1 million in funding will enable Windlift to complete prototype demos, file an additional 20 patents, move forward with military partnerships and enlist marketing support."
      ==============================================================================
       
      Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 22805 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 6/14/2017
      Subject: Trichy (for the record)

      Innovative Airborne Wind Turbine Using Low cost Kite

      Suresh K 
      Trichy, Tamil Nadu 
      India
      Views: 1632
      Votes: 8
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      Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 22806 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 6/14/2017
      Subject: Re: Trichy (for the record)
      Name of person: 
      Suresh

      SURESH K

      Location: Trichy, Tamil Nadu India
      Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 22807 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 6/14/2017
      Subject: Re: Trichy (for the record)
      A team member was: 
      M.Naveen Kumar

      =========================
      Comment: We have no further information about the topic.
      Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 22808 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 6/14/2017
      Subject: Re: KiteGen
      Two years ago an article featured some detail photos of the big KiteGen wing:
      http://mashable.com/2015/06/07/kites-global-energy/#0FigWNZORgqr
      Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 22809 From: dave santos Date: 6/14/2017
      Subject: Re: KiteGen
      Nice wing, but the challenge is how to fly it. An AWE scaling law we discovered is that a scaled-up kite needs scaled-up (dimensionless) wind This is most critical with massive rigid, or in this case, semi-rigid wings, and less problematic for soft kites. The "stem" boom on the groundstation cupola cannot raise this wing very high, and Northern Italy does not have the best wind, so it will normally be a long wait to launch this wing from the stem. The problem is compounded by the need to get up over common morning surface inversion calm. This is the conjectured predicament to explain why KiteGen has no flying video after two years of waiting.

      The wing could be tested with a rolling cradle and winch tow. The tether would be laid out on the ground with the wing downwind on its cradle, and the winch would haul up the kite into usable wind. Unfortunately, this wing will not do well in low most-probable-wind, and it does not look crashworthy. Like other major AWE ventures, if only KiteGen had concentrated on gathering the world into one team, to better solve the many hard problems, they would not be stuck at the limit of what a small closed team can do. Solving AWE at utility scale will require a far larger broader effort than any so far.




      On ‎Wednesday‎, ‎June‎ ‎14‎, ‎2017‎ ‎12‎:‎27‎:‎46‎ ‎PM‎ ‎CDT, joefaust333@gmail.com [AirborneWindEnergy] <AirborneWindEnergy@yahoogroups.com  

      Two years ago an article featured some detail photos of the big KiteGen wing:
      http://mashable.com/2015/06/07/kites-global-energy/#0FigWNZORgqr
      Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 22810 From: dave santos Date: 6/14/2017
      Subject: Re: Trichy (for the record)
      This looks like a young student project, and in that spirit, Bravo. Even small children readily discover concepts an alert designer can run with. Best practice is to encourage everyone, as novice AWES concepts relentlessly proliferate. Some of these pups will hang in there and prevail. In AWE, the more, the merrier.


      On ‎Wednesday‎, ‎June‎ ‎14‎, ‎2017‎ ‎12‎:‎15‎:‎20‎ ‎PM‎ ‎CDT, joefaust333@gmail.com [AirborneWindEnergy] <AirborneWindEnergy@yahoogroups.com  

      A team member was: 

      M.Naveen Kumar

      =========================
      Comment: We have no further information about the topic.
      Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 22811 From: dave santos Date: 6/15/2017
      Subject: AWEfest BETA at Ambient Camping 47 on Facebook
      Attachments :
        Ray Luna posted this* on Facebook, and its getting lots of likes. Note Mothra1 shown will not be there, but several new AWES will be tested. Wind looking ideal, ~15mph seabreeze all three days-

        Inline image

        * If image does not show, I did not defeat Facebook's copy blocking





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        Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 22812 From: dave santos Date: 6/15/2017
        Subject: Re: AWEfest BETA at Ambient Camping 47 on Facebook [1 Attachment]
        The image did not show in-line, but as an attachment. Lets see if it shows inline copied from Yahoo Groups-



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        [Attachment(s) from dave santos included below]

        Ray Luna posted this* on Facebook, and its getting lots of likes. Note Mothra1 shown will not be there, but several new AWES will be tested. Wind looking ideal, ~15mph seabreeze all three days-

        Inline image

        * If image does not show, I did not defeat Facebook's copy blocking





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        Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 22813 From: dave santos Date: 6/15/2017
        Subject: Fw: Happy Global Wind Day - 15 June
        AWE in the form of the 5% avg fuel savings that aviation gleans from playing tailwinds is many GWhr, but gets overlooked in conventional grounded wind industry calculations. Here's to the AWE R&D community someday creating the greatest increases in global wind energy.

        Happy Global Wind Day!


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        See the winning entries below and our top picks here. 
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        Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 22814 From: dave santos Date: 6/15/2017
        Subject: MegaMaterial Systems Indentification
        A recurring theme on the AWES Forum is that our collective kite quest not only borrows ideas from many fields, but also generates new ideas. One of these new ideas, posed here in 2011, is "engineered megamaterials", as we began to conceptually explore megascale kite arrays. Lets bump the idea forward a bit to define a megamaterial as any material whose unit-cells are km scale or larger. For example, a mountain range or river system qualifies as a natural megamaterial.

        In the case of "kitematter" whose cells are km scale, we can specifically identify such as MEGAscale METAmaterial. Most current metamaterials are small-celled, but seismic metamaterials have been tested at a few meters cell size. We recognize in classic kite trains of the 19th and early 20th century Golden Age of Kites" our first instances of km scale periodic engineered structure, reaching even to ~10km high a century ago. Once defined, other engineered megamaterials can be identified, even ancient canal and road systems, but the materials science interpretation is modern.

        No doubt AWE will continue to lead material science in further defining megascale metamaterials, given the astounding engineering properties of our rag and string designs in freespace (air, water, and outer-space). No one else has such a ready megamaterial experimental capability as AWE does.
        Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 22815 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 6/15/2017
        Subject: Re: World looking at AWE
        Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 22816 From: joe_f_90032 Date: 6/15/2017
        Subject: Re: Brief History of AWE; and why progress is so rapid
        Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 22817 From: dave santos Date: 6/15/2017
        Subject: Re: World looking at AWE
        While there is no new news offered, except to confirm the M600 consumed more power than it harvested (as predicted for over-scaling), its still possible to parse Makani's prose for more indications. Only the loop or two on video is mentioned, not more, nor any sign that a landing rather than a crash occurred. The kite itself is not lauded as a historic object headed to a museum. Even wreckage would be historic, but a sad trophy inconsistent with venture-culture hype norms (the NASA Helios crash study helps imagine the scope of a covered-up M600 crash).

        This last paragraph may signal a drastic change in approach (emphasis added)-
        Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 22818 From: dave santos Date: 6/15/2017
        Subject: Re: Brief History of AWE; and why progress is so rapid
        "Brilliant" indeed. Pocock remains the patron saint of modern AWE, and Tom Mulligan (or whoever is featured) is a worthy new follower, having cobbled and tinkered together a real char-Volant in about a day's work. Good move to get help from a kite pro. Tom's rough prototype made about 45deg downwind, but Pockock could make good to windward, because his kite where highly developed true arch-tops with stiff flat lifting surface. I recall Pockcock's original system was two-line control, one line inside another, as described in old text. Old drawings show a single line in appearance and the lines at the kite as a clever mixing bridle (which I recreated). The videoed gorge, that Pocock is said to have teleported his daughter across, is impressive. What a lark AWE is.

        On ‎Thursday‎, ‎June‎ ‎15‎, ‎2017‎ ‎12‎:‎43‎:‎10‎ ‎PM‎ ‎CDT, joefaust333@gmail.com [AirborneWindEnergy] <AirborneWindEnergy@yahoogroups.com  
        Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 22819 From: dave santos Date: 6/15/2017
        Subject: Bali Bebean under a Janggan AWES?
        Set the Bebean as the pumping WECS wing, with a PTO line to a groundgen, under the super-stable Janggan, as the pilot-lifter.

        By the looks of things, such a Balinese-based AWES rig could generate a kW or so...
        Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 22820 From: dave santos Date: 6/15/2017
        Subject: Peter Lynn's obsession with perfecting soft kite flight only deepens
        April thru June PL newsletters reveal an ever tightening focus on the mysteries of kite flight, which the master struggles to solve more than ever. He claims even to be giving up festivals to improve his research efficiency. Its "The Old Man and the Sky", a heroic faustian quest, no less. 

        Note that PL's "superstability" is the same as glider-towing's "lock-out" and hobby-kiting's "death-dive". "Volatile instability", as PL puts it, is also known as "Dutch roll" and "figure-of-eight".
        Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 22821 From: dave santos Date: 6/15/2017
        Subject: GE Report: atmospheric geoengineering by Kurt Vonnegut's physicist b
        Stranger than Vonnegut's fiction, kites can do far better and cheaper than WWII bombers to remediate weather. Strangest of all, polymer "rag and string" kite lattices can liquid-crystalize sea and sky into a diffuse solid (mega metamaterial). Ice9 is cool tag for polymer lattice in flowing free-space.
        Group: AirborneWindEnergy Message: 22822 From: dave santos Date: 6/15/2017
        Subject: Zipline-based Aviation
        A traditional cableway is slow and must bear the total payload mass. Instead, a light cable acting as a high speed zipline could conduct large masses of self-propelled winged cars; nice potential for fabled "Celestial Railway" to become real, but instead of heavy track or cable, perhaps just a thin string to guide considerable flying mass at high speed. In case of a line break, free-flight to a safe emergency landing would be the default.

        Zipline-based aviation is basically the idea as Alexei Bolonkin proposes in fully airborne form, but works from terrain as well. Zipline aviation not only enable low-complexity densification of airspace, but conceptually advance terrain-based cableway tech, as winged cable-cars.

        Alexei's extraordinary AWE IP portfolio, and much more, is licensable via the Open-AWE_IP-Cloud