SkySails
https://www.skysails.info/en/
- "The Hamburg-based company SkySails Power GmbH is ready to deliver the first PN-14 airborne wind energy systems" Q1/2021
- PN-14 :: "The ground stations, weighing in at roughly 20 tons"
- "The production site in Seevetal is the world's first series production facility for the innovative wind energy systems."
- PN-14 PDF AIRBORNE WIND ENERGY SYSTEM
SKYSAILS POWER N-CLASS
ONSHORE UNIT SKS PN-14 - https://youtu.be/bO4Q5sJ6n3I
- SkySailsPower
- SkySails Marine Performance
- SkySails Yacht
- SkySails Marine
- SkyPower 100 ""SkyPower100", which is funded by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi)"
- Born to Design: SkySails - Propelling Ships with the Power of Wind - SOLIDWORKS
- The Technology Video SkySails
- twitter.com/SkySailsGroup
- #message23593 project:
skypower100
- SkySails Power Video (German
Version)
- CNBC (2015), How kites can save the planet – or the shipping industry
- The SkySails Nose Tether is a "fifth-line" safety system, as well as a docking aid. As such, it could foul, but that is unlikely due to low tension, and the system would be recoverable. The Nose Tether is far more useful and secure than no fifth-line capability. ~ kPower Oct. 9, 2020
- A clever SkySails rigging detail is the Lanyard Bypassing the Weak-Link at the Control-Pod. If the Weak-Link breaks, the Kite is Retained, Killed and Depowered, with No Runaway. ~kPower, Oct 9, 2020
- RWE Renewables and SkySails Power
collaborate on kite power
27 January 2021 (Last Updated January 27th, 2021 12:43)
German energy company RWE Renewables has signed a collaboration agreement with SkySails Power to harness high-altitude winds with a kite-powered generator.
Schleswig-Holstein Magazin Sept. 14, 2020 The plant is in Klixbül. Video regarding same site: https://youtu.be/UZ82rK_RS4U Note: The "aircraft" is a SLK using a Jalbert evolute double-skin soft wing.
Pure Crosswind Load Motion
Had KiteShip continued R&D, they would likely be doing multi-MW scale output, but with less all-mode automation. The calculation was 2MW per person, as a rough labor standard in COTS power plants, and that FAA would in any case require a PIC (Pilot-in Command) for sense-and-avoid. NASA LaRC's NI based vision system (Austin) would have been the supervisory automation basis.
Expect SkySails to converge toward larger SS wings, consistent with Culp's findings and TUDelft's upcoming MSc Thesis. As a minimal surface with unbeatable scalability, the OL could be licensed, or an SS open-source NPW variant adopted.
The topological design variants below offer operational advantages over the SkySails initial reeling architecture: more continuous power cycle, no downwind cycle loss, no control-pod nor conductive tether dependence, and far less runaway risk (passive self-kill). Not all the details are clear in this schematic, like kPower's basic method for multi-line control, via heddle pulleys.
AWEC2020- SkySails First AWES Commissioned for Continuous Operation!!!
dave santos
5:46 PM (1 hour ago)
to Saul, Pete, me
It is really happening. SkySails is the historic AWES first utility-scale commercialization.
kPower has longtime friendly MOU relation with SkySails, if you pitch LarryE. We were first offered US dealership status, but we are not in AWES sales (yet). kPower holds the topological-scaling keys (with TUK) to go forward.
SkySails launching mast method is 110yr old German ship-kite art kite historian, Walter Diem, best documented. Dave Culp was anguished in 2007 to see SkySails advance, as KiteShip was strangled in the cradle; but its certainly not to late, still early. 2030 is still a ways out.
Stay tuned for TUK research in prepublication phases, with AWES calcs and sims to GW scale and beyond. Even TUDelft finally pivoting, with an MSc Thesis in the works validating giant SS wings. We always told them so...
The only bad news- still no PL Sr Newsletter Emoji
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From: dave santos
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Subject: AWEC2020- SkySails First AWES Commissioned for Continuous Operation!!!
Congratulations to SkySails on a historic AWE milestone!
See Video- https://twitter.com/SkySailsGroup
Press Report- HOME | SKYSAILS POWER
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Ed notes:
- "The project partners SkySails Power, EnBW, EWE OSS, and Leibniz Universität Hannover"
- SkySails Power GmbH, EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG, EWE Offshore Service & Solutions GmbH, and Leibniz Universität Hannover
"The use of modern UV coatings
and innovative materials with an
extremely high durability has significantly increased the lifespan of
our kites so it does not present an obstacle for the economic &
technical feasibility for us anymore."
July 6, 2020, post by Dave Santos
Skysails Confirms UV Life of modern kites not a major concern
"Thanks to PierreB for getting further confirmation of kPower's findings regarding great UV life of advanced kite materials.
Paraglider human safety margins never were a realistic AWES limit; most of a soft kite's service life remains after 500 hrs, with a gradual loss of performance that can be mostly recouped by bridle retuning and fabric resealing. Carbon-black kites are practically UV-proof, and a thrifty paraglider pilot can order accordingly.
Skysails:
"The use of modern UV coatings
and innovative materials with an extremely high durability has
significantly increased the lifespan of our kites so it does not
present an obstacle for the economic & technical feasibility for us
anymore"
https://twitter.com/skysailsgroup/status/1279045116951437314?s=21
SkySails firmly declaring its lead
Article: Airborne Wind Players Still Hoping for Takeoff After Alphabet Ditches Makani
- SkySails notes that it is ready for orders.
- Makani Power management team may still be. Shell notes that
continued backing of Makani.
- Kitepower is confident.
Article: June 21, 2018
Wind energy of the future: Research project on the use of high-altitude wind
Project partners SkySails Power, EnBW, EWE OSS and Leibniz University Hannover develop and test pilot system „SkyPower100“
- Consortium:
- SkySails Power GmbH
- EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG
- EWE Offshore Service & Solutions GmbH
- Leibniz University Hannover ... its Institute of Propulsion Systems and Power Electronics
SkySails open job positions
"Working at SkySails
Some 60 employees, representing a wide range of disciplines, help to develop, manufacture and market the SkySails solutions. Our common motivation is to provide clean energy solutions to accelerate global energy transition. Use this link to see our open positions."
"kite sizes up to 320m2 used for R&D purposes"
Some fresh graphics: https://skysails-power.com/
And how about "auxiliary power" ? HERE
WPAG :: wind-powered auxiliary generator See: PDF