- wiki/Minimum_viable_product
- Is there a kitricity AWES with MVP status on Earth yet? At any scale?
- We know some RATs on powered aircraft are MVPs. Or Auxiliary Power Unit (APU).
- Is Dan Tracy's electricity-generating kite system at MVP status? Pacific Sky Power. Or does he have a generator for DIYs to form a private system?
- Is Kiwee One at MVP status? Kitewinder (company)
- Let the world discuss here other proposed AWES products as to MVP status.
- How accurate may a product be judged as to MVP status?
- One essay on MVP
- Where as to MVP is each AWES among teams aiming to develop a sellable AWES? Teams or individual AWES product developers are welcome to state their case as to MVP status and be open to discussion herein.
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kPower's MVP AWES Standard
KiteSat7
is a robust MVP AWES design based on TRL9 COTS components. Its small,
but actually useful for remote charging of phones and increased
messaging distance. Its also been tested to power nighttime AWES hazard
lighting.
kPower
however, will not make the mistake of chasing a novelty market, so we
only did a small production-prototype run, and moved on. KiteWinder
took another kPower architecture, Kitemotor1 ("Portland KiteMotor") and
made a nice product, but has no doubt stalled commercially and almost
surely long ago laid off its production staff (Katie wondered how it
might be going).
eWind's
TED hardly even seems to be an all-modes pre-production AWES prototype.
The MVP claim is presumed false, based on what is visible in recent
eWind video. eWind is either deliberately or naively misleading the
public with its TED MVP deliverable claim. Where is the reliability
data?
