Wubbo Johannes Ockels
- Wind-driven driving apparatus employing kites
- Happy Energy
- I.M. Wubbo Ockels, Happy Energy:
The Space perspective and Sustainability (video) - http://www.ockels.nl/
- http://www.wubbo-ockels.nl/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wubbo_Ockels
- https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/2b/87/1a/074bd984864829/EP0841480B1.pdf Circa 1996 ...
Wind energy converter using kites
Windkraftanlage unter Verwendung von Drachen
Eolienne utilisant des cerfs-volants
This is his laddermill proper; term evolved to be confused.
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that in earlier decades Doug Selsam notarized a description and drawing
that must be studied in this realm. Ockels did not have access to
Selsam's work.
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High altitude kite on single line has remotely-controlled model aircraft suspended from it to control roll and pitch by modifying kite shape Circa 2000
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Mast assembly as well as a sailboat provided with such a mast assembly.
- Circa 2012 with team: Airborne wind energy system
- Feb. 16, 2021, post by Dave Santos:
Wubbo's LadderMill Patent, that JoeF links to here, is a good case-in-point. The basic LadderMill idea was overlooked public prior art by Doug Selsam, in the 1970s. It was not very workable. Ever the resourceful astronaut, Wubbo continued to work the problem, and turned away from the vanity of patents. His final AWES vision, of synchronously networked kites he called a "SpiderMill", was fully open-source [AWEC2011]. Many other AWE academics have not yet made the transformative Open-AWE journey Wubbo accomplished before his untimely death
- Kite power systems in automatic operation
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