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Topic for open discussion:
Measuring AWES
for all of its practical applications
-- SI is the acronym for the International System of Units --
Fundamental constants! Basic units!
"Specially energized cesium atoms “tick” with a specific frequency. We count 9,192,631,770 of those ticks and call the elapsed time interval a second."
  • NIST
  • wiki/Measurement 
  • wiki/International_Bureau_of_Weights_and_Measures  |  
  • Variables  | Parameters  |  Parameters of interest to investors  |
     | Aspects  | AWE aspects | Methods  | 
  • SensingKiteParameters.html  
  • AirborneWindEnergy/KiteNumbers 
  • AirborneWindEnergy/Forum/AWES9436to9488.html#message9478    
  • Comparing AWES    
  • When a complex kite system holds in its parts subassemblies that function to fulfill objectives, there will be a host of things to measure, report, compare, ... Measuring things for design, control, management, statusing, ... will ever carry some uncertainty. Communication efficiency invites using standard units for measures.

  • Special ratios, variables, or parameters defined by researchers and developers may finally be reduced to a number or resultant of fundamental standard units. 

  • Planck constant      wiki
  • What to measure regarding an AWES?  
    • Amount of electricity fed to a utility grid?
    • Mass of an AWES without including Earth.
    • Cost of a functioning AWES (hardware, software, labor, replacement, maintenance, decomissiong,  legal, land, salaries, etc. )
    • Reliability
    • Complexity   
    • Acceptance
    • Safety
    • Carbon footprint
    • Life    |  remaining life
    • Mean time between failures
    • Tether-set parameters
    • Wing-set parameters
    • Applications parameters
    • Anchor-set parameters
    • Media parameters (air, wind, soil, water, plasma, ...)
    • Status
    • Position
    • Velocity
    • Acceleration
    • Momentum
    • Altitude above ground   (AGL)
    • Market value
    • Efficiency
    • Grade for specified purpose
    • Rank for specified purpose compared to other AWES
    • Total power capacity,
    • LCOE
    • Power-to-mass
    • Power curve data
    • TRL   technical readiness level
    • Product value
    • Value in marketing, also known as customer-perceived value
    • L/D of wings, tethers, addon-parts,
    • Most-probable wind
    • [ ] Discuss?  "10x ratio of hot wing to rag wing area as rough power-equivalence (CorwinH)."  [ ] Discuss?
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