Synchronized Looping Foils under Mothras

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Synchronized Looping Foils under Mothras

An array of identical looping-foils attached to a cross-wind string mesh will tend to synchronize* and drive the mesh circularly in-plane; with a phase cycle that can be tapped for energy by the tri-tether (non-torsion) transmission method.

A Mothra could host two such looping-foil arrays in mirror-symmetry, as a balanced passive dynamicly-stable AWES..

* In a linked array, leading foils contribute extra towing energy to a lagging foils, creating an averaged output.

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