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Let a railed cart be drawn by kite power back and forth with riders in
the cart.
In some circumstances one would focus on just giving amusement rides in
the cart. Someone else might get fancy and have the back-and-forth
action of the cart be coupled with an electric generator, so that
electricity is made while people of all ages obtain their amusement
rides.
This is different from the free-pathing of land carts driven by kite
power or snow skis. The subject application herein looks at confining
the cart to a rail. Many variations on railing can be conceived. Herein
is the focus rails that are firmly connected to the ground. Cars or
carts set onto lifted sky cables will be found in a different thread for
attention.
March 6, 2011, post by Joe Faust
Drive cars or carts set onto lifted sky cables
Kite or kytoon set a sky cable; confine a cable car or cart to the cable .
Power the movement of the confined car or cart by kite power.
Consider toy scale as well as other scales for this. Unmanned and people
passengers or material may be transported on a network of lifted sky cables.
Development of scaled solutions are invited.
It has been envisioned: world-circling sky cable with carts driven by kite
power along the cable or network of cables.
The initial sky cable that has been vastly developed is the tether of a
single kite; scores of patents face line riders; devices sail or are otherwise
drive up and down the main tether of a simple kite system. Such is a start.
Image a vast network of sky cable around the earth. Travel here and there by
kite power.
Fly it and drive it. This application thread will surely branch to some
specialized applicaitons for kite systems.
Group: KiteApplications
Message: 6
From: Joe Faust
Date: 3/6/2011
Subject: Hold a platform for day use in hot
climate
Consider a hot day. One desires to be 100 m above
the heated sands. Set a kite system that holds a platform at 100 m; place a
shading sail just above the platform. Be in the platform while performing
one's other action choices all done above the hot soil in cooler air, less
dusty air, away from crawling snakes and scorpions, etc. Perhaps one
will choose to exercise while on the platform, or read a bood or page
from the Internett. Picnic aloft. Take rocking nap. Thousands of things
may be done on the platform. Rent time on the platform. Honeymoon
suite? Give a sermon on the platform to hearers below. Draw, sketch,
paint, solve problems, etc. All in cooler and cleaner air.
Group: KiteApplications
Message: 7
From: Joe Faust
Date: 3/20/2011
Subject: BungeeBox kite-launch into free-flight manned
kiting
BungeeBox for self-soar HG launch with line-speed multiplier
and bungee cord set: Pilot loads the cords, triggers release, and
foot-launches with the assist of his or her stored potential energy. The main
tether is very-low-stretch cord. . [Image pending finding it again.]
Discussion is invited.
Two sectors to the operation: 1. The initial sector kiting has the wing
body and its pilot, the kite's long tether, and the kite's tether's other end
taken as mooring (here the BungeeBox) anchored to earth. Notice that one may
consider the mooring as a very blockish wing itself that is very extreme in drag
with is soil anchor depicted (the soil anchor stresses the soil and some strain
could be detected, if one wanted to detect such strain).
2. Once the pilot releases himself or herself from the main first tether,
then the second kiting sector begins. In this second sector the "kite" with its
three parts goes as follows: the upper wing, the short hang tether, and then the
body of the pilot as the other end of that short hang tether. The body of the
pilot is a wing of sort and has mass falling mass also. As the pilot (as
mooring) falls and reacts with the stream, a net tension coupling is achieve in
relation with the upper wing. The net kiting circumstance in the second sector
here is commonly referred to as hang gliding, but sometimes appropriately
"kiting" where pilot is the moving mooring.
A kite might be defined as a tether terminated by wings (the two wing sets
oppose each other enough to form a tension in the coupling tether.
JoeF
Group: KiteApplications
Message: 8
From: KiteApplications-owner@yahoogroups.com
Date: 4/2/2011
Subject: Glow surfaces in kite
systems
Use laser beam or strong light (delivered
externally or via optical fiber internally) to activate surfaces of kite
systems (mooring set, tether set, wing set, or auxiliary lofted item set), so
the surfaces glow in the night for various purposes (hazard
recognition, entertainment, message production, etc. )
Discuss,
specify, build, example, phtographs, products, users?
Group: KiteApplications
Message: 9
From: KiteApplications-owner@yahoogroups.com
Date: 4/2/2011
Subject: Ocean travel and living by kite
system
Have a kite system that has person living pod kept
generally lofted above the waves by the kite system wing elements. Have the
mooring be a hydrofoil adjustable by the pilot in the pod. Have the wing set
also controllable by the pilot from the mid-tether pod. Have some
surfaces of the kite system being solar-energy converters. Use some of the
solar energy electricity to split water to hydrogen and oxygen; use
the hydrogen for various power-consumption processes. In the pod have
a vegetable garden. Have also a fishing system for use in getting protein
during the travels.
At full calm the pod and wing set might rest in sea
waiting for launch when wind returns. If the system has lighter-than-air
kytoons for wing set, then the hydrogen could keep the wings at desired
buoyancy.
An arrangement might be model toy size. Or one-person home. Or
huge passenger commercial size. Or industrial energy plant.
Discuss,
specify, example, design, example, photograph:
Group: KiteApplications
Message: 12
From: Joe Faust
Date: 7/13/2011
Subject: Rope climbing
With suitable safety precautions:
1. Recreational climbing of kite tether sets.
2. Recreational climbing of a rope hung vertically from the kite systems'
tether set.
3. Motorized climbing of kite tether.
4. Human-climber of rope hung from kite system.
5. Animal climbers of ropes hung from kite systems.
6. Mechanized tether ascenders and descenders to exchange goods to aloft
stations.
7. Descend charged batteries. Send up uncharged batteries for getting
charge.
8. Send up water to be cooled at higher elevations. Bring the cold water
back down for drinking or cooling a room or object.
9. Human swings on a rope hung from a kite system; human has a wing for
operating the gyrations wanted in the swing.
10. ?
Group: KiteApplications
Message: 13
From: Joe Faust
Date: 7/13/2011
Subject: Rescue
Use a kite system to rescue a downed kite wing.
Use a kite system to move ship-stranded people from ship to either another
boat or to shore. Or use kite systems to sail people long distances from a
sinking ship.
Use a kite system to rescue animals that have met hard times.
Use a kite system to fetch people from unlawful imprisonment.
Use kite systems to remove people from a surrounding fire.
?
Group: KiteApplications
Message: 14
From: KiteApplications-owner@yahoogroups.com
Date: 7/13/2011
Subject: Targets and Kite Systems
(KS)
The famous Target Kite is just the beginning of target matters.
Have KS hold party pinatas.
Have KS drop platters used in shooting practice.
Have KS have line-laundry objects that are targets for the artistic
observing eye.
Have KS line objects be advertising attention-getting targets.
Hang a basket from a kite system. Recreational beach play: teams throw water
balloons into the basket until the basket is so heavy that the basket gets
grounded; first team to get their basket grounded wins.
Group: KiteApplications
Message: 15
From: Joe Faust
Date: 7/13/2011
Subject: Re: Targets and Kite Systems
(KS)
Have KS hold up a high jump bar (or mimic elastic
rope, etc) for use in recreational high jumping.
Group: KiteApplications
Message: 16
From: Joe Faust
Date: 7/13/2011
Subject: Shade
Using kite systems, produce shade per need.
Some common shading needs:
Protect special plants
Lower air-conditioning costs of a building
Make hot outdoor areas more pleasant by shading some of the sun.
Protect materials and goods from excessive sunshiine.
Double-purposing the shading sheet held by the kite system:
Have the sheet be a solar-energy converter; make electricity while also
giving shade.
Have the shading sheet also be a resting platform for human naps.
Have the shading sheet be an observation deck
Have the shading sheet be a launching platform for hang gliders.
Triple-purposing the shading sheet: Have those doble-purposing items be
also with the sheet being a solar-energy converter.
Other?
Discuss.
Group: KiteApplications
Message: 17
From: Joe Faust
Date: 7/14/2011
Subject: Prayerful kiting
Have kite systems and kiting be part of prayer actions!
Tell your story!
Messages sent up the main line and let go!
Symbols on sail to remind one or others of the Love in the universe
according to one's traditions and beliefs ...
Art lofted to trigger meditations ...
Movement prayer: the universe of relations is changed by each movement of
the kite's parts. Gratitude may fly in such presentation and consideration.
Group: KiteApplications
Message: 19
From: Bill
Date: 7/15/2011
Subject: Re: Ocean travel and living by kite
system
What do you do when the wind dies down?
Group: KiteApplications
Message: 20
From: Joe Faust
Date: 7/15/2011
Subject: Re: Ocean travel and living by kite
system
"Bill" <billwrin@...
Depending on the system design, there could be many options.
The system might be equipped with kytoons using hydrogen obtained from
splitting the sea water.
A system might fully accept full lull-time resting in the water; relauch
when wind is adequate.
A system might be generating electrcity and storing the electricity for use
in powering flight during the lull.
? ...
During the lull, many housekeeping tasks might become easier.
Thanks, Bill for the discussion.
Group: KiteApplications
Message: 23
From: Joe Faust
Date: 7/16/2011
Subject: Re: Shade
Before 1900, recognition of kites for shade was evident. Here is a touch of
such shading: (click through image for the full patent) [ ]IMAGE yet to find again. Discuss shade.
Consider a smart system modernized where a kite system is aware of its shade
mark over a define vehicle or item; as the sun changes, as the vehicle or item
changes position, the kite system would fly the shade-giving wings or kite
laundry to precise positions in order to maintain the shade mark where wanted.
Consider on-off shading where it is desired to have shade and not shade in
cycles to fit particular needs.
Consider that the shading kite part doubles as a solar-energy
collector-converter; drive the energy to do good works.
Group: KiteApplications
Message: 24
From: Bill
Date: 7/18/2011
Subject: Kiteboat
I think kites will make boats go faster than
sails.
Because the kite will give the boat much less heeling force than a
sail the hull shape can evolve into a new class of boats altogether.
Group: KiteApplications
Message: 25
From: KiteApplications-owner@yahoogroups.com
Date: 11/24/2011
Subject: Cut high tree branches
Method one: Fly the kite; have a segment of the kite
tether be a sawing line. Get the line across the branch needing cut. Work the
kite in and out until the branch is cut through.
Method two: Another way is to sling a line over a
target branch; bring the the far side of the line back to ground. Line the the
tether through a pulley and then connect a working kite system to the main
line. Then connect the working kite's main line to the cutting section. Work
the kite for alternating in and out. Perhaps have a spring return at the first
base of the cutting line. Out-in cycles will cut the branch.
Group: KiteApplications
Message: 26
From: Joe Faust
Date: 11/28/2011
Subject: Gliding kites (paragliders) form a sector of
free-flight gliding
Gliding kites are many centuries old, though modern missions are inviting
further development of gliding kites (paragliders).
As a kite necessarily is a unit of wing set with resistive set coupled by
tensioned tether set, one may see that L/D
World ParaGliding Association has opened a forum ParaglidingUnlimited for more discussion
space on gliding kite systems (paragliders) for unmanned and manned systems of
any scale, mission, or configuration.
Gliding kites are true kites; the mooring is moving with the kite line(s) and
the kite's wing(s); the wings deflect the air and a net L/D results. Many run
and jump and skip and sometimes glide using a a kite or sport kite; the same
kite system works if one held on and jumped off a cliff (don't do this until you
have designed an appropriate kite system!) and became a free-falling mooring
putting tension in the main tether while the wing(s) resisted as they deflect
the ambient and apparent winds that the wings face during operation. All the
same. Kite. But in the attention of this thread is when the mooring is moving
freely through the air or water (in the case of paravanes or water kites).
Glidng kites (paragliders) can come in a vast array of stypes; the arena is not
limited to a system having just one mooring, one tether, one wing; no, the
paraglider may have 200 wings in the wing set, for example. Challenges of
launching, landing, system-killing, etc. are part of the gave.
Gliding kites (paragliders) may be used in art, science, hobby, industry,
sport, play, competition, commerce, recreation, education, and more.
Drawings, descriptions, project reports, etc. are invited.
Safety: Have a way to stop or kill a gliding-kite (paraglider) system. We do
not want to hear of reports of gliding kites (paragliders) ripping powerlines,
hurting people, scaring animals, disturbing other aircraft, etc. Gliding kites
have a huge potential for good missions, but wrongly handled and operated such
paragliders can cause havoc. Stay in control and with a backup system to
emergently stop the paraglider from further flight. If a human is flying in the
gliding kite, then be sure the gliding kite (paraglider) has what it takes to
allow fully safe operations.
Discuss any or all aspects of gliding kite (paraglider) designs.
Also, Seeking applications, records, hull designs for speedsailing by use of
kites, etc.
Group: KiteApplications
Message: 29
From: Joe Faust
Date: 12/9/2011
Subject: Large TV screen in sky via kite
pixels
Your
VGA idea is good, its even possible to make a giant color TV screen in the sky
out of kite pixels; would that not be cool?
~~
Dave Santos See old forum message 4999
Group: KiteApplications
Message: 30
From: KiteApplications-owner@yahoogroups.com
Date: 12/28/2011
Subject: Surfaces for ______
What to do with the surface of the
wings of the kite,
the surface of the tether-set elements, and the surfaces of
the resistive-set elements?
A kite consists of wing-set elements, tether-set elements, and
resistive-set elements (which may be wings in some kite systems).
The surfaces of parts of a kite (wing, tether, anchor) are valuable real
estate when applications are appreciated and developed. Discussion is ever open
on applications for the surfaces.
Some starters for wing surfaces:
Have the surface of a wing be a photograph of people, places, things.
Have the surface of a wing be fine art.
Have the surface be a solar-energy converting device.
Make electricity for
use in the kite system or for sending to other loads.
Have the surface be a screen that shows video, TV programs, movies, etc. by
radiation.
Have the surface be a reflection surface.
When light shines on the surface,
then the surface reflects the radiation that came to the surface.
Have the surface be all one color.
Have the surface be textured in various ways for aerodynamic purposes and
effects.
Have the surface be with various porosity, perhaps variable porosity.
Have the surface have fix text messages.
Have the surface have messages texted by passersby at the beach boardwalk;
in real time people can write in the sky their message for all to see.
Have the surface of wing be with cameras and video cams sending images to
the Internet in real time.
???
Some starters for tether surfaces:
Have the tether radiate visible light all along its length.
Have the tether radiate visible light with changes relative to altitude.
Have the tether radiate visible light with changes relative to temperature
of air.
Have the tether radiate visible light with changes relative to ambient
airspeed.
Have the tether structured to give cyclic pulsations.
Have the tether radiate variable-color visible radiant light.
???
Some starters for resistive set element surfaces:
In free-flight kite where the resistive set is perhaps a wing set itself,
then see above for wing-set surfaces.
In fixed-anchor kite, then the surfaces of anchor elements might warn people
of the hazards of the kite system operation. Warn with color. Motion sensors and
voice recordings?
The surfaces may be solar-energy devices.
???
Group: KiteApplications
Message: 31
From: Joe Faust
Date: 12/30/2011
Subject: Fishing using kite
systems
All means of fishing using kite systems are invited
for this thread.
This topic thread invites explorations of kite
systems involved in reconnaissance and
surveillance.
Start:
Ever-up kytoon with video cam, GPS, remote
command, Internet reporting? Surround view? Circle-vision?
Animal
viewing, crop viewing, ranch watch, site watch,
The kytoon involved might
recharge its LTA from collecting and breaking atmosphere moisture to get
hydrogen.
Group: KiteApplications
Message: 33
From: Joe Faust
Date: 1/15/2012
Subject: Lift a long sadly twisted
line
Lift a long sadly twisted line.
Let the the wind and gravity untwist the sad!
Or use the sadly twisted line as a main tether to a kited wing. Insert s
swivel. Let time and jiggling and flying take out most of the sad twist.
Discuss.
Group: KiteApplications
Message: 34
From: Joe Faust
Date: 1/15/2012
Subject: Want to twist together some
lines?
Use the raw strand set as the main tether to a kited
wing.
Set a rotating bladed turbine upwind of a swivel; aft of the swivel have
the wing.
The rotation of the turbine will put twist in the line. Reel in the
twisted line.
Advanced: Have a means to stop the process when the number of twists
desired has been reached.
Discuss:
Group: KiteApplications
Message: 35
From: KiteApplications-owner@yahoogroups.com
Date: 2/12/2012
Subject: Kite system for holding play
swings
Use kite systems to lift play swings, recreational
swings, sport swings, rope-climb swings, entertainment swings.
The swings may be low or high above ground. Safety precautions are ever
recommended.
Good engineering of systems that intend to hold humans aloft on
swings is highly recommended!
Group: KiteApplications
Message: 36
From: KiteApplications-owner@yahoogroups.com
Date: 2/12/2012
Subject: Kite system for fetching objects caught on high
wires or trees, etc.
Have means from a kite system that may grab, fetch,
catch, etc. objects that are in trees, on wires, on ledges, etc. The objects
may be small, large, alive or not. This thread invites the disclosure of
fetching mechanisms incorporated into kite systems. Full project
execution evidence is invited via photographs, video, and
plans.
Group: KiteApplications
Message: 37
From: Joe Faust
Date: 2/12/2012
Subject: Market fluctuation and kite
opportunities
SkySails'
downsizing is the recurring pattern starting with Etzler and Pocock two hundred
years ago, then the Kite Golden Age a hundred years ago, and continuing with
Dave Culp's efforts in ship kites in recent decades, where lower fossil fuel
costs suppress the advance of Kite Energy. Corrected for inflation, coal and oil
is currently about as cheap as it has ever been, due to recent "advances" in
extraction.
Harry
notes that cargo ship numbers are down, but shipping tonnages are still growing,
as container megaships increasingly dominate. These monstruous ships are
inherently more marginal to kite-assist, not just by high-consequence danger,
but they naturally cruise faster in proportion to windspeed, squeezing an
already narrow window of suitable kite-flying conditions. Cheap-Oil phases are
not all bad for AWE; one can imagine laid-off SkySails folks starting new kite
ventures that would not have happen otherwise.
The
best AWE bet to not get pushed around by fluctuating energy markets is to
early-on find value-added niches based on the kite's unique quality of cheap
flight, and let the energy application take hold in its own time. Kite-based
sky-diving, experimental architecture, specialty lifting, fire-fighting; the
cool possibilities boggle the mind. The same low oil prices hurting the
ship kite market make it cheaper for small kite starts to acquire the
oil-based string and rag to start with.
DaveS
Group: KiteApplications
Message: 38
From: Joe Faust
Date: 2/16/2012
Subject: Sector applications of kite
systems
Examine a sector of the universe and find
applications for natural and artificial kite systems (simple or complex).
Authors and teachers who instruct kiting frequently pause to rehearse uses of
kites and kite systems.
Those rehearsals are invited to this thread. Indeed, this group and all of
its posts are aiming to rehearse and find applications for kite systems.
One rehearsal is on a slide for a kite course at TU Delft:
"Scientific: To emulate the flight of birds, To lift
instruments high into the atmosphere, And raise the antenna for the first
trans Atlantic radio transmission.
Utilitarian: To carry fishing line and hook out over the water
in atolls, thus providing a means of catching fish in somewhat remote water from
where the fisherman stood.
Military: To visually signal other troops To scatter messages
over the enemy, To measure distances, To lift observers over military
areas.
Religious: To offer up wishes to the gods of weather and crop
fertility at the time of spring planting or at fall harvest; or To just
appease the spirit world.
Cultural: To demonstrate artistically the symbols of a region or
nation in the sky.
"
One may find the full set of slides of several lectures:
Discussion of those notes may be in this thread or at other kite-discussion
sites.
Group: KiteApplications
Message: 39
From: Joe Faust
Date: 2/16/2012
Subject: Marconi instructs an application using kites of
tin-foil
TRANSMITTING ELECTRICAL SIGNALS
Guglielmo
Marconi
He
describes using tin-foiled kites in his communication system:
Discuss continued use of kites for communication purposes.
Group: KiteApplications
Message: 40
From: Joe Faust
Date: 2/28/2012
Subject: Tool sharpening
Use the energy of a kite system to turn a flywheel.
Draw some of that flywheel energy to sharpen saws, knives, scissors, etc. A
one-way sprag clutch and a small boom and a passively wafting kite can load
a flywheel to store
energy.
Group: KiteApplications
Message: 41
From: KiteApplications-owner@yahoogroups.com
Date: 2/29/2012
Subject: Elevator
Have tower or building. Desire to have a goods or
personnel elevator. Counterweight the system. Then have a kite system working
to drive
the elevator.
Group: KiteApplications
Message: 42
From: Joe Faust
Date: 2/29/2012
Subject: Lofted sounds, speech, music, message,
etc.
From high with a kite system, broadcast sound,
speech, music, message:
But then aim to open and discuss bungee jumping from kite-system
platforms.
Group: KiteApplications
Message: 50
From: Joe Faust
Date: 3/29/2012
Subject: Running high jump bar and standards and landing
pit by kite system
Running high jump bar and standards
and landing pit
provided by tensioned parts kite system.
This thread invites
unfolding variations on the topic.
The tethers may hold a cross-line magnetically held (allowing magnetic
release upon hitting the "bar" in a not-high-enough high jump effort).
The landing pit may use the combined cushioning of tether give; the landing
pit would be an enhanced net held in the air by the kite system. Notice that
hung-air-release gravity-hung textile cylinders could be held up and used for
part of the cushioning effect to be used to soften the landing experience of the
high jumping person.
Group: KiteApplications
Message: 51
From: Joe Faust
Date: 3/29/2012
Subject: Re: Bungee jumping from kite-system
skyhook
Let people swing in various ways for fun and exercise. Athlete could wear
wings to waft and sway and partially fly with the wind while the main pendulum
swing retains. Athlete could wear a rescue parachute or a skydiving parachute
for use in concluding the swinging session. A hung person could nap or use
binoculars or telescope during a session. Photography could be part of the
swinging session. Overnight sleeping could be done while on the
kite-system-hung arrangement. Practice in waft flying could be done in a small
or large way while hung from a pendulum line from the main kite
system.
Group: KiteApplications
Message: 53
From: Joe Faust
Date: 3/29/2012
Subject: Drop giant paper airplanes from kite
system
Instead of using a two-pilot helicopter, the shown
giant paper airplane could have been launched from use of a kite system.
That is, just because one has an absence of something does not demand that
the former collected items were meteorites, I hold.
A kite system could collect dust; sampling the atmosphere for pollutants by
use of kites is a known application. But I have not seen anyone using kite
systems for meteorite collecting.
Notes and research are welcome on this topic from
anyone.
Group: KiteApplications
Message: 57
From: Joe Faust
Date: 5/17/2012
Subject: To fly a kite is to send a
message
"To fly a kite is to send a message."
What is a message?
What messages are sent when this or that kite system is flown?
Is it a message of hope, gratitude, sadness, technical refinement, joy,
political activism, plea, energy solution, fanciful play, athleticism, skill,
power, leadership, etc. ?
The very flying might give message.
A texted or video message might be on display on kite coverings or on kite
line laundry.
A system of kites might display a special image meaningful to views on the
ground or to pilots and passengers in the sky.
A kite system might be threatening or a sign of helpfulness.
What have we?
A prison reform movement has adopted the metaphor of flying kites as part
of their movement:
Aircraft Landing Patent
number:
1874423 Filing
date:
Jun 22, 1929 Issue
date:
Aug 30, 1932
Group: KiteApplications
Message: 67
From: Joe Faust
Date: 11/24/2012
Subject: Keep conductive cables out of harm's
way
Use kite system to keep a conductive cable up out
of harm's way while support the cable to a load.
Cousin patent in this line of conception:
Click
image for full patent. Discuss claims, etc.
Donald L. Price
Electrical power
supply method and system for open pit mining equipment Patent
number:
4071124 Filing
date:
Aug 26, 1976 Issue
date:
Jan 31, 1978
Group: KiteApplications
Message: 68
From: Joe Faust
Date: 11/26/2012
Subject: Kite systems (KS) for construction
industry
Use kite systems (KS) to help construct tall
towers, skyscrapers, remote buildings, etc.
Open discussion on ways and means:
Use KS to lift materials to storeys that are being construction in a
skyscraper.
Have KS tension an inflated object or network while the object is being
sprayed with rigidizable material.
Have KS as crane to move construction materials to remote construction
site.
Have KS carry leading bridge line from one side of ravine to the other
side.
Group: KiteApplications
Message: 69
From: Joe Faust
Date: 11/26/2012
Subject: Human aerial catch nets
Have kite systems (KS) hold huge catch nets.
Flightsuited gliding human may glide into the nets. Paragliders could land on
the nets. Leapers could land in the nets. Powered aircraft could land on the
nets. Etc.
Kite systems have been used for transporting people and items on cable
ways. The great variety of historical instances prepares us for an unfolding
future that may hold vast airborne cable transport arrangements for wide end
services. Transport goods, people, animals, supplies to AWES, product from AWES,
parts for aerial constructions, etc. Scaled testing of ACT systems has a long
tradition, but much yet can be done for practical ACT.
Group: KiteApplications
Message: 74
From: Joe Faust
Date: 12/6/2012
Subject: Kiting gliders to starts with resistive set being
powered aircraft
Use powered aircraft as the resistive set of a kite
system that has the wing set being manned gliders or manned sailplanes or manned
hang glider or manned canopy hang gliders or manned parachutes. Aerotowing to
obtain gliding experiences! The kiting sector is the towing operation.
Here is an artful look from the line's perspective in aerotow of a manned
glider:
Subject: Release object from kite by
electromagnet
Have object held by power of an electromagnet.
Type one: RC of the electromagnet. Control the switch to off from remote
radio-control position.
Type two: Battery that drives the electromagnet is let be drained. Upon
the low power, the object is release from high altitude.
Type three: Have the wind drive a generator aloft; when the wind is
inadequate for driving the generator enough to give power enough for the
electromagnet to hold, then the release occurs.
Group: KiteApplications
Message: 85
From: Joe Faust
Date: 1/2/2013
Subject: RC powered aircraft used to carry up a kite's wing
for release
Radio-controlled aircraft takes wing set of kite
system to high altitude and then releases the wing set. The tether set may be
lifted while the tether set is connected to the anchor set. Or the tether set
of the kite system may be totally lifted and also released in special
manner for either a free-flight kite system or for a tether-set to be
snagged by a ground anchor. Other options probably may be configured.
Group: KiteApplications
Message: 87
From: Joe Faust
Date: 1/3/2013
Subject: Rescue persons, goods, animals from
islands
Say in a river or wash there is a small island where
persons, animals, or goods are stranded.
Fly kite system with auxiliary lines and pulleys. Drop a catch line to the
island. Attache the persons.
Lift. Draw to the side the persons, animals, or goods ... onto safe
ground.
Rescue team arrives. Flies kite immediately and gets lines ready.
Subject: Applications of kiting systems in
agriculture
Kite Ag or Kite
Agriculture or Applications of kiting systems in agriculture
Starting note by Dave Santos:
Major
Ag Kite Applications-
Irrigation- Standard reciprocating and rotary pumps can be
driven with minimal modification. Fossil fuel units can be converted to
kite-hybrids, as well as water hauled by well-pulleys or on wagons.
Plowing- A substitute for
tractors and animal labor. Simpler traditional plows can be drawn by kite
crosswind (for back-and-forth operation and conservation furrows). Notes- the
plowshare must be a symmetrical type, to take traction-force from either side. A
simple "tacking" plowshare is a likely method. A "kite-tractor" vehicle could
tow a full variety of ag devices. Electric-tractors can be charged by
kite-energy systems.
Harvesting- Crops like hay or root crops that are not too time
sensitive (that can await favorable wind) and/or have unusual harvest demands
(harvesting giant coconut trees of Kerala is a high risk climbing occupation).
Time sensitive harvests could proceed by stored kite-power of biochar-hybrid
power.
Threshing and Milling- A cheaper faster means to apply wind
power, which has a long history in Ag Processing application. Existing mills can
be driven in many cases.
Farm-to-Market- Fuel-less bulk haulage from remote
farms to distribution networks can work well in the right setting.
Pest Control-Bird scaring during the final ripening
phase of grains and fruits is possible with hawk-like kites. Improved methods
offer better coverage and usefulness during even calm periods (by a small towing
reel).
Small Scale Rural Electricity- To support ag with information access and improve
quality of remote rural life. Lighting, radio, medical support, and charging
phones, notebook computers, etc. could be done with the same sort of kites used
in direct ag apps.
General Notes-
Kite applications are favored by carefully prospecting for
opportunities. Subtle factors of terrain, latitude, season, and
so on, must be taken into careful account.
DIY Tech- COTS kites are
inherently low cost (by installed watt), but DIY kites are practical for
even lower costs, for populations at the lowest economic scale.
Kites to Turbines- With far lower capital-cost than
conventional wind power, but a higher attention requirement (kite-piloting or
kite-system supervision), kites offer poor communities a path to begin wind
power, generate value to finance wind towers (where towers are favored)
Hay Farming Affinity-
Biochar-
Maritime Uses- Kites operate in water
currents much like they do in air (slower for equivalent power). In many cases
the same kite flown above can be "flown" submerged, with minor differences in
power handling. Applications include reliable self-powered ferryboats across
rivers to support remote ag. Fish Farming- Kites can oxygenate water and drive
waste filtering (into compost). A kite-towed mussel-raft would enhance
production, by boosting feeding and
oxygen availability.
Group: KiteApplications
Message: 91
From: Joe Faust
Date: 2/4/2013
Subject: Capabilities seeking applications in kite
systems
Have a capability.
Then seek an application of that capability with some kite system.
So, how might that capability be integrated within some kite system? Open
discussion on this capability.
Submit other capabilities and wonder similarly.
Group: KiteApplications
Message: 92
From: Joe Faust
Date: 2/6/2013
Subject: Re: Kite system to maintain an aloft aircraft
landing platform
Similarly, for launching skydivers and hang gliders
over flatland:
Re: New platform for
launching HG?
Wed, Feb 6 2013,
12:36:42 pm
Nice
notes, ARP ! High hats off to
Cody! ================================ Blindrodie, … Yes, and feasible. Little-to-no
fuel; wind-energy only. Systems can be smart. Protocols may be set. Safety
margins can be known. Visibility will be conforming to airspace control needs.
Several centers of efforts are underway for "airborne architecture" and "wind
enabled airborne architecture" with some skydivers thinking about participating
in some first efforts. Safety first attends to having means for facing
breakaways, so tethers and wings do not cause
damage. ================================ Cloud Hopper and his aerial museum is not out
of the question. Tourist fees may go to pay for the total launch system and
its smart controls, inspection, maintenance,
etc.
================================ Pat Halfhill, there are several ways the new
platform may drop one off into thermals: 1. Wait for a passing thermal. Have
upwind indicators to give some warning; several options exist. 2. Control
the position of the system in the sky over portions of the wind-window
quarter-spherical space. 3. Raise and lower the platform according to
conditions and needs. 4. Have thermal awareness with the glide range from
the launch. 5. Position the lofted platform over a house thermal. 6.
Make on the ground structures that cook up artificial
thermals.
When
a dedicated purpose, say, of "serial launching of hang gliders from a lofted
incline to mimic terra-firma launching
experience" without using piloted powered-towing aircraft, then kite systems
with multiple wings for aggregate stability may loft a highly porous incline;
one-by-one a hang glider and pilot-to-be could be raised to the launch incline
in a number of ways. Watch the cycles. Weathercock. Preflight. Hook-in? Go. Next
club member goes up to the stable platform.
Advance: Clubhouse in the sky. Perhaps three
hang gliders aloft in line for using the aerialized inclined launch
ramp.
Advance further: Return to
the platform after a flight when enough altitude has been gathered; take a
break. Lunch. Nap. Then fly again from the day's lofted HG home.
Advance even more: Go toward an "ever-up"
launch system. Let the system make energy to light up the ground; have night
flights.
Advance more
yet: Endless-loop conveying of hundreds of hang gliders to launch point
above. All in one session.
Advance even
more: Walk up kite arch and launch anywhere along the
arch.
Skydivers will probably be the first to use a full-on system;
discussions are underway for such.
Meanwhile, the system could be an
energy-production plant as well where the system makes money selling excess
energy; the funds could go to support the hang gliding club for paying for the
kite system and other matters.
Group: KiteApplications
Message: 93
From: Joe Faust
Date: 2/27/2013
Subject: Applications for kite systems in World War
II
Specific applications of kite systems in World War
II
Constant-length of the aerial line brought success over earlier efforts;
such constancy was obtained by letting the aerial line restrain the kite tether
at a kite-tether low point; above the connection point the kite system could
rise and fall.
Group: KiteApplications
Message: 99
From: Joe Faust
Date: 3/31/2013
Subject: March 1968 Popular
Mechanics
List of some kite applications is given in article.
Note: The
triangle control frame, familiar in kite hang gliders from at least
1908,
is used in this
one-footed-ski kite flight. By shifting weight differential from one hand to the
other, some control of the kite occurred.
This flier chose
not to have a hang harness to himself as was used by the 1908 kite hang glider.
The shown 1955 pilot hung by the
the tendons of
his arms; gusts or jerks could increase the forces enough to force early
dropping to the water. The free-glide of the shown kite is with a very low
L/D.
Group: KiteApplications
Message: 101
From: Joe Faust
Date: 4/2/2013
Subject: Deliver pizza by way of kite
systems
Deliver pizza by way of kite systems
Sorts:
Fixed-anchor kite systems on the beach or park. Novelty delivery of pieces
of pizza to parties.
Free-flight powered kiting systems delivering pizza to customers.
?
Group: KiteApplications
Message: 102
From: Joe Faust
Date: 4/2/2013
Subject: UAS free-flight powered kite systems for
surveillance
UAS free-flight powered kite systems for
surveillance
Small or large powered uninhabited free-flight kiting systems
could carry cameras .
Consider very small powered kiting systems without a live pilot.
Invited are the various ways to
have S.O.S. kiting.
The entries will have a user situation. Invited: State user
situation and then the arrangements and configurations of kite systems that
might be designed to fit the user situation. Describe how the systems might be
operated.
To start on some possible users:
Large ships
Yachts
Power boats
Power-kiters
Sailboats
Automobiles
Trains
Hikers
Trekkers
Aircraft
Some miscellaneous notes to start:
If one is without a pre-made SOS Kite System (SOSKS), then consider using
the threads of clothing for tether. Consider ambient sticks. Consider clothing
parts for sails. Or consider using leaves in a thread-net for sail. Trash for
sails?
Consider staining for SOS messaging on the sails.
Consider drawing the environment's silhouettes on a note. Let the kite go
fugitive in some cases, perhaps.
...?
Education and marketing of SOSKS might be part of the larger
picture.
Group: KiteApplications
Message: 106
From: Joe Faust
Date: 4/26/2013
Subject: Exercise of human body for health
purposes
Use kite systems in order to give exercise to one's
body for health purposes. Enjoy doing such exercise. Apply safety measures.
Here is a video that shows the working of arms, neck, legs, feet, etc.
n
this same time period Loomis became interested in using the electrical charges
obtainable from the upper atmosphere by means of kitescarrying
metal wires.
This set him on a path of developing it as a system of wireless telegraphy for
practical long distance communications.
Subject: Electron beam directed energy device and methods
of using same US 20
Consider using kite-system platforms for holding
electron-beam directed-energy devices for peaceful uses, say landmine detection
and destruction, energy-transfer from energy harvested from the wind, and more
...
We notice the storage of aloft energy in fly wheels is part of teaching in
the following patent.
Electron
beam directed energy device and methods of using same US
20100171446 A1
Have a playground human-seated swing. But then add
wings to the seat or to the human occupant. Let the human operate the wings
facing ambient wind. As he or she opens the wings or changes the angle of attack
of the wings, then an altered motion occurs for the wing-human complex.
Consider a very long pendulum hung from some high holder (building, tree,
bridge, kite, balloon, aircraft, cable between mountains, etc. ) Have an object
or a human with operate wings be the bob of the pendulum. Then, in the ambient
wind, have changes in the wing set be operated by the human. Pilot changes in
the motions of the bob.
Swinging in the wind with various controls over the shape of the bob of a
pendulum seems to be a sector of kiting. Indded when a spider finds itself as
the bob of web line, he or she will fly about in reaction with the ambient wind;
the spider's body is the natural kite-systems' wing set and the line is the
spider's kite line anchored to a tree or building, perhaps. Or when a leaf
part is dangling from a spider's silk we have the wind swing the leaf.... with
the leaf as the kite system's wing set.
The bob may be a rotary wing of VAWT or HAWT sort. The bob may be a
parachute-equipped system.
What adventures are there at the end of a pendulum, especially a long line
Many sport and
hobby soft kites already have simple sand/water drains in the trailing-edge.
Another helpful feature is a reduced frontal intake area (often with flap
valves). A good example of all these features in a popular trainer kite is the
HQ Hydra line. Parafoils, with so many cells, and the presumption of
fair-weather use, have not required this capability. This point is a TACO
omission, so it will be added in future versions. The obvious conclusion is that
such drains be a design-default in safety-critical parafoil AWES, and perhaps be
mandated in FARs.
An intuitive parafoil drain design is to vent across
all cells at the TE, as well as provide multiple small drains from wingtip to
wingtip. Even hollow rigid wings need careful rain and condensation drain
design, but single-skin concepts like Mothratech avoid the whole issue. Its well
known that modern kites fly with only slightly reduced performance in rain
(KiteLab Ilwaco flies single-skin experiments in rain routinely and Enerkite has
reported parafoil AWES rain operation).
Lets not forget rain
collection as a niche in our giant-kite design toolkit, with elaborate networks
of gutters, drains, hoses, and tanks possible. Many hot deserts have
considerable rainfall aloft that normally evaporates well above the surface, but
in reach of kites. We also recall the ancient Polynesian kite magic of flying
sponges into clouds to harvest fresh water. ~Dave
Santos
Group: KiteApplications
Message: 130
From: joe_f_90032
Date: 11/10/2013
Subject: Isolating camera in KAP from tether-set
vibrations
Isolating camera in KAP from tether-set vibrations?
Subject: Study asteroids and other hard to reach
places
Haul up a rocket in a kite system. Point the rocket
toward the ground. Set the rocket into rocket flight straight to the ground. The
rocket becomes a penetrator.
11711 N. Creek Pkwy S., Suite D113, Bothell WA 98011-8804
Group: KiteApplications
Message: 128
From: joe_f_90032
Date: 11/1/2013
Subject: Kite construction used as a means to explore
ultralight constructing
Kite construction used as a means to explore
ultralight constructing!
1. Engineering students
2. Science students
3. Hobby crafts persons
Test the structures under the stress of winds.
Group: KiteApplications
Message: 127
From: joe_f_90032
Date: 10/31/2013
Subject: Generate interest or attention by using kite
systems
Do you want to generate attention for some place,
cause, activity, event, etc.? Let kite systems work for your need. Or is this
called advertising by kites? Eye-catching, ear-catching, eye-and-ear-catching
kite systems? The colors, motions, and sounds of kite systems in various
combinations may effect attention or get a message out. Kite systems that move
things might get the attention of people, animals, governments, students, etc.
Group: KiteApplications
Message: 131
From: joe_f_90032
Date: 11/14/2013
Subject: Cleaning ponds, lakes,
reservoirs
How might kite systems be employed to help clean the
water in ponds, lakes, reservoirs?
Consider kite energy for pumping water through a filtration system.
Consider kite energy for lifting water and then dropping the water to put
oxygen into the water.
Consider kite energy to pump water into soaking ponds where the soaking
ponds drain to the water table that feeds the pond being cleaned.
??
Group: KiteApplications
Message: 132
From: joe_f_90032
Date: 11/15/2013
Subject: Clothes
Wear the kite cover as a piece of clothing.
Consider zippered or Velcro set of two kite covers to make a wearable
shirt, say two sled kite covers.
Consider similarly for pants with the legs as tails. Two kite covers to
form a pants to be worn.
Consider wearing two or three or four or five layers of similar shirts and
pants. Say four sets: 8 shirt kites and 8 pants kites. Total 16 kites. Have
sticks and bridles tightly packed separated. At site, assemble and fly group
or train or singles.
Note that larger covers could simply be belted in close during travel.
This all might be a way to be too warm, unless the weather is cold. But what
will one be wearing if one flies all the kite covers? Keep one final layer
for keeping warm.
Send photos.
Note: Busable kite hang glider: wear wraps of sail. Have stackable beams or
airbeams with coilable splits.
Objects that are difficult to fetch might be grabbed
by a grabbing system held by kite system. Perhaps a real-time camera could be
used to guide the lowering of a set of fetching fingers. Then operate the
fetching finger to close to grab the object. Then lift the object up off the
hard-to-reach place. Then control the kite system to let the fetched object be
brought to ground station. Designs for such fetching systems are invited.
At times a cutting tool might be important to release lines and tangle. Recall
all those shoes tossed onto high telephone and power lines; what safe way will
there be to used kite systems to fetch those shoes.
Here is a tri-copter with three motors doing a fetch operation. Noise,
batteries, challenging accuracy, dealing withe the wind:
The notes indicated they tried a kite, but without giving details.
We are after advanced kite-fetching systems. Ideas? Examples. We know of
advance kytoon logging system. But what about other smaller-scaled tasks of
fetching by kite system?
Fetch things, animals, people. Rescue systems using kites? Grabbers.
Cameras. Control authority. Multiple-winged kite systems setting up aloft grids
from which to operate? Lift human and let human fingers do the fetching?
Magnetic grab when iron is on the object? Care not to tangle the fetching
hardware with structures and objects.
~ JpF
Group: KiteApplications
Message: 135
From: joe_f_90032
Date: 1/13/2014
Subject: replenish deep O2 and shallow nutrient
systems
"replenish deep O2 and shallow nutrient systems,
pumping for irrigation, line driven valley transport, architecture.... etc etc"
~ Rod Read
How many ways could kite systems be used to control
insects or harvest insects for food?
? : [ ] Control swooping-fetch nets?
? : [ ] Placement of attractant cages?
? : [ ] Loft nets that protect crops or people?
? : [ ] Spray discouraging odors or when safe other competing bugs or
chemicals?
? : [ ]
Group: KiteApplications
Message: 137
From: joe_f_90032
Date: 2/6/2014
Subject: Ever-Raining Kite System, an ever-giving
AWES
Ever-Raining Kite System, an ever-giving AWES Have the
kite system bring up water or other materials in a continuous or continual
fashion using energy mined by the kite system from the wind. Drop the water or
other materials in a continuous or continual fashion at various altitudes along
the tether set and even at the wing set. Materials or chemicals taken up for
raining down could be seeds, water, fertilizer, messages, food, animals,
microbes, gliders, drones, personnel, sand, confetti, wings, kite systems,
blankets, parachutes, fire retardant, gifts, tools, etc.
Hold an image projector aloft by use of a kite
system.
Project the image onto buildings, ground surfaces, or other aircraft even
perhaps other kite systems.
The Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics opening ceremonies featured large-scale
image projection form overhead devices.
In that family of projection, niche needs might be served by kite
systems.
Group: KiteApplications
Message: 139
From: joe_f_90032
Date: 2/8/2014
Subject: Kites to hold large sheet that holds solar-energy
conversions device
Have a kite system of multiple wings (one or more)
with multiple tethers (one or more) that hold a large sheet of solar-energy
conversion devices on the sheet or integrated with the sheet itself. Fly the
sheet above the clouds perhaps to get good solar radiation on the sheet. Send
the gained electricity to the ground. Or when the ground space is congested,
the sheet could be kite-system lifted over the constraints to collect and
convert solar energy. Having kite systems fly solar-energy conversion devices
is not a new idea and has been discussed some in the AWES forum. Some patent
applications have kite systems feature such method in various ways, some have
the very surface of the wings in the kite system be thin-film
solar-energy-converting capable.
A similar strategy using "airplanes" is rehearse in the patent:
He gives a stream of kite applications in his post.
Group: KiteApplications
Message: 141
From: joe_f_90032
Date: 2/13/2014
Subject: Deep well elevator, storage, generator,
refrigerator, warmer
Want to store things down a deep well? Let the
stored mass drop down while perhaps generating electricity to charge a battery.
Store the things down the deep well. When wanted use a kite system to pull the
fetch line to bring your stored things up. A small kite's pulled line could be
set to drive gears. Also, the let-back-down could be arranged to wind the kite
back in. There could be angle-of-attack controls on the kite to lower the
efforts for retrieving the kite.
Depending on ground-level temperatures and temperature down the well:
refrigerator or warmer ... by placing things down the well. What is the
temperature down 50 m or 10 m ?
A deep well could be used to have an oscillating kite raise masses
and then lower them; mine some of that displacement on both strokes for charging
batteries.
Deliver massive approved perfume to achieve certain
purpose.
Group: KiteApplications
Message: 145
From: joe_f_90032
Date: 2/28/2014
Subject: Conveyor loop
Continuous or continual
... Sail items up the line and drop the items. Or have loop driven by upper
winds and have the loop carry up items.
Items: sand, water, people, toys, fire retardant, seeds, skydivers, etc.
Let your imagination
run.
Group: KiteApplications
Message: 147
From: joe_f_90032
Date: 3/13/2014
Subject: Marionettes. Puppets.
Marionettes. Puppets.
The wings of a kite system are so arranged and controlled to effect a
Marionette show.
The "controlled from above" for defining marionettes might get changed to
simply face "controlled by strings" situation ... from above or from below.
Yet, maybe dancing wings on strings are controlling people and machine
below where the "anchor set" are the puppets!
In any case, advanced puppeteer arts using wings of kite systems will
continue to be refined and perhaps in new directions beyond entertainment and
recreation. Since a kite system is a set of wings, a set of tethers, and a set
things forming the anchor set (which may also be wings and other things), then
the possibilities for marionette and puppet displays and special niche
applications abound.
Personify the natural wind. And have that
personification control human puppets (human kite patrons). The wind impacts the
kited wings and the kited wings impact the human kiting patrons. The show goes
on and on ...
Group: KiteApplications
Message: 150
From: joe_f_90032
Date: 3/13/2014
Subject: Re: Marionettes. Puppets. Charles McCutchen, Peter
R. Payne
"Control
can be applied by servomotors aboard the aircraft or in a marionette fashion
via lines from the ground." Quote from classic AWES patent filed in
1975 by Charles McCutchen, Peter R. Payne
Find special niche applications of a kite system
that has magnets dominant in the anchor assembly.
Consider having a kite system drag its magnet anchor across lands, across
debris in water, across large production fields, across beach sands, etc.
Group: KiteApplications
Message: 153
From: joe_f_90032
Date: 3/28/2014
Subject: Drying wet line.
Have some rope, cord, string, line, etc. that is wet
and you want to dry the line without set the wet line on soil or objects or even
wrap it to dry? Then consider flying the line out with a kited wing and let the
line dry in the fresh breeze and sun. Caution: Do not fly high wet
line without knowing well the potential difference in the layers to be flown.
And be sure the line is grounded without being held by humans. Have remote
control of the reeling operation. We do not want anyone to become a conduit of
atmospheric electricity or
lightning.
Group: KiteApplications
Message: 154
From: Joe Faust
Date: 3/30/2014
Subject: Re: Drying wet line.
For safety, consider NOT having the wet line as the flying line,
but rather just tense the line near ground between two kite systems's lines;
have the two kite systems be oppositely veering, one left and one right.
Group: KiteApplications
Message: 155
From: gearboxhl
Date: 3/30/2014
Subject: Re: Magnet as anchor to kite
system
That kind of system could maybe be an easy, safe and
cheap way to clean landmines
fields.
Group: KiteApplications
Message: 156
From: joe_f_90032
Date: 4/3/2014
Subject: Sensitive labor over a farm or the
like
Move a human or fetching machine around a plant
farm. Let the hung human or machine pluck weeds or valuables or ripe fruits,
etc. from a space that would otherwise be injured by foot traffic.
Expand this method for placing items when ground trekking is not
wanted.
[Similar has been the priorly suggested mine triggering; from kite system,
let cycles of drop of multiple-spiked form hit methodically grounds that are
suspect of holding explosive mines. By computer control, an area or path may be
spike tamped thoroughly by use of kited drops of triggering
forms.]
Group: KiteApplications
Message: 157
From: joe_f_90032
Date: 4/3/2014
Subject: Soil kiting to save human
lives?
When building a home in a slide area, consider soil
kiting:
Drill to deep bedrock or deeper than slide material; set deep firm anchor;
have up tether be tough tether; form home in such manner that it will become a
soil-flying wing; bridle the home underneath with the tether that goes to the
deep anchor. When the slide occurs, if design is done well, there may be a
chance to fly the home in such manner that the home stays on top of the slide
material. Have the tether "give" or pay out line under strong tension, as the
slide material will probably tend to place the house at a higher altitude. THESE
ARE ROUGH NOTES; CHECK WITH YOU SOIL ENGINEERS
Group: KiteApplications
Message: 158
From: joe_f_90032
Date: 4/4/2014
Subject: Fence
There are very many ways to form ground-region or
aerial fences using kite systems. Want a fence for one of thousands of purposes?
Explore how kite systems might serve.
Here is a start of a simple stable downwind fence arrangement:
Group: KiteApplications
Message: 159
From: joe_f_90032
Date: 4/4/2014
Subject: Tent
Use kite systems to form tents based on the ground
or based in the sky.
Group: KiteApplications
Message: 160
From: joe_f_90032
Date: 4/4/2014
Subject: Pull Drift Trikes by
Kite
Kited Drift Triking
This is kitebuggying with drift trikes.
Slide or drift away. Instead of gravity drift triking,
use kite systems to give motion to the drift trikes.
[0605]
Instead of very large but passive equipment, tethered vessels may employ the
current to sweep the equipment back and forth like a fighting kite employs
aerodynamics or a water skier employs hydrodynamics to sweep back and forth. The
vessel employs a "wing keel" to "fly" sideways in the current. This sweep may be
vertical as well as horizontal. That is, the vessel may have wings for carrying
loads up and down over the depth of the current.
======
Group: KiteApplications
Message: 172
From: joe_f_90032
Date: 4/25/2014
Subject: Sample volcano gases and
lava
Sample volcano gases and lava using kite systems.
Fly the system so the tether is above the sampling place; have drop
line that holds instruments or other sampling devices; lower the instruments to
the altitude
desired.
Group: KiteApplications
Message: 173
From: joe_f_90032
Date: 4/25/2014
Subject: Vacuum surfaces
Use controlled kite systems to move a vacuum cleaner or suction tool
about a surface in order to suck in dust, grain, chemicals, ores, harvested
fruit, etc.
...
Group: KiteApplications
Message: 174
From: joe_f_90032
Date: 4/28/2014
Subject: Dam and Deflect Wind and Weather by Kite
Systems
Kite systems are useful as a foundation for airborne
entertainment.
Festivals, show-and-tell, art showing, competition, fireworks delivery
system, personal recreation, motion in the sky, educational demonstration,
advertising of other entertainments,
...
Group: KiteApplications
Message: 181
From: joe_f_90032
Date: 5/28/2014
Subject: Release tensions
Kite systems may be used to release community emotional
tensions.
Open discussion
of similar arrangements is
invited.
Group: KiteApplications
Message: 183
From: Joe Faust
Date: 7/29/2014
Subject: Onboard lofted segments of kite systems: 3-D
printer
Onboard lofted segments of kite systems: 3-D
printer. Make parts aloft for practical uses in kite systems. When living
aloft in kite-system aerotecture, make parts with the 3-D printer to supply
hobby, science, manufacturing, utility,
commerce, etc.
Group: KiteApplications
Message: 184
From: joe_f_90032
Date: 8/29/2014
Subject: KAP at onshore breeze over surf region
activity
Have onshore breeze. Have surf-region events.
Place offshore seabed anchor with sea-surface buoy.
Use buoy as anchor part of kite system. From the kite kite system
operate cameras and or video cams for precision photography of the surf-region
activity. Have various means to control the position of the system's wings and
camera positions. Consider real-time transmissions to receivers, managers,
judges. Consider surfers or other participants receiving views of the wave sets
and surf-region scene from the aerial view.
~
JoeF
Group: KiteApplications
Message: 185
From: joe_f_90032
Date: 8/30/2014
Subject: Marginal kite
applications
Invited are "marginal applications" of kite systems.
Sometimes a marginal application will seed a whole new
industry.
Recently ds suggested that "holding up one's pants" by use of a lifting
kite system might be considered a marginal kite application; but see the
potential of holding up pants for drying after laundry, holding up the pants of
a yacht that is being painted to prevent paint pollution of the sea or lake,
holding up pants around an art project that is not to be unveiled until showing
day, etc. Pants that hold water or fish for transfer, and much more. Form
a specialized topic when you believe that there could be significant following
discussion or research and development notes.
~Joe
F
Group: KiteApplications
Message: 186
From: joe_f_90032
Date: 10/13/2014
Subject: Discuss the suggested applications of
image
Following
technology is licensed CC 4.x BY NC SA by Joe Faust into kPower AWES IP
Pool:
Kite system drags various magnet assemblies to accomplish various
works.
Pick-and-place. Salvage yard material lift and set. Magnets could be
permanent magnet or electromagnetic with release controls. Electromagnet could
be electrified by the kite system directly or by stored-energy made by the kite
system or from external source.
Also: Drag
magnets in sand or soil to pick up attractive pieces, dirt, lost goods,
etc
In niche event, a kite
system held magnet curtain could collect attractive particles out the air as
part of an industrial process or as part of a cleaning-air
operation.
Group: KiteApplications
Message: 189
From: joe_f_90032
Date: 11/7/2014
Subject: Technical Kite Group Meeting at World Kite Museum
(US Pacific NW reg
Subject: Kite system holding baskets to receive tossed
objects
Kite system holding baskets to receive tossed objects
Have a basket or the like held by a kite system.
Toss items into the basket. This could be a game.
Or the activity could have other purposes. Toss harvested fruit into a
kite-system-held basket; then once the basket is full, the kite system could be
controlled to dump the collected items to gathering centers.
Many other activities may use the basic arrangement of baskets held by
kite systems.
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