Dave,

I agree that reorienting the turbines to face the wind results in more complexity and weight but I feel that it is well worth the effort.  With the tether at an angle of 45 deg, reorienting will result in a possible 180% increase in power.  If operation at high altitude results in a 10% increase in wind speed, then this translates to a possible 33% increase in power.  If crosswind action can increase the effective wind speed by 10%, then this will increase the power output by an additional 33%.  In short we can theoretically achieve almost 5 times the power output with these improvements.

In order to reorient the turbine a horizontal sail is attached to a rotatable ring on the center section of the double universal joint. The force of wind acting on this sail will cause the turbine to reorient so that its axis is horizontal. To maintain the sail in a horizontal position we will need a counterweight on the opposite side of the sleeve.  To counteract the small frictional effects of the rotating element, we may have to slope the horizontal sail slightly.  Alternately the counterweight could be offset to compensate frictional effects.  A drawing to show these additions will be submitted.

gordon_sp ahares drawing:

http://www.energykitesystems.net/AWE/AWEsystemsForumClips/CounterweightGordonForST.JPG

So, 

The topic will aim to prove the following statement: 

"Any kite is a kite system and is a system with a conversion system."

The proof effort has "kite" narrowed to those objects that are with sets of wings coupled by positively tensioned lines tensed by the kite interacting dynamically with one or more media.   Note that much convention abbreviates the actual kite to just one wing in a kite.  This proof rather does not so abbreviate; this proof recognizes that a wing alone is not a kite as the wing alone has not coupling of wings by tensed lined tensed by dynamics of coupled wings interacting in a media.  To follow the proof, the common convention of wing alone as kite is not used. 

     So kite is a complex of minimally two wings and one coupling line interacting with a media causing tension in the coupling line.   If there is no resultant of positive tension between at least two coupled wings, then kite does not subsist. 

    Thus kite is not one part but is of at least three parts; thus a kite is a system of parts; and that system is of a type that is distinguished from other systems by the resulting of kiting; thus it is a kite system.  "System" is taken for this proof as "a set of things working together as parts of a mechanism."  Since a kite herein is a set of things working together as parts of the while mechanism that does the kiting, then kite is a system. 

     For kite's coupling line to be tensed by the coupled wings interacting with the media, a conversion of energy occurs through the interaction of wings and coupling line(s) with the media; an exchange of momentum occurs; and in that exchange heat is generated and other forms of energy are generated by exchanges of electrons, by eddies and changes of electrical environment of the parts, resultant vibrations, etc.   The kite which is a kite system while being a kite does convert energies from one form to another. Thus kite is a system that converts energies from one form to another.  Thus kite is a conversion system. Thus kite is with itself; thus kite is a system with a conversion system. 

Of course, there may be kites of ever more complexity with advanced ability to focus on converting to some special form of energy.  A kite that is altered can be seen as distinct from the unaltered kite; and thus an altered kite may be seen as a new kite distinct from the kite that going to receive an alteration. That is an object is itself and not what it is not.  

A drive to ignore that even the most simple kite is a system may well tend to lower creative potential in design.  A drive to ignore that even the most simple kite converts energies may lower the design potential of a worker.  

Dave,

The system I propose is a restrained lifter kite with diagonal stays at the four corners.  This will minimize the turbulence. In addition the gyroscopic effect of the rotating turbines will damp changes in orientation.

By the way, what is “galloping”?