A 2010 report notices three commercial machine being build.
High concern for new-tech operation safety for kitefield workers is in focus.
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September 2009: Kite Gen Research
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Who?
Wang Seng Chee, Marcello Corongiu, Guido Ferretti,
Massimo Ippolito, Gian Mauro
Maneia,
Mario Milanese, Riccardo Renna, Ivan Sergio, Franco Taddei, Aldo
Trinchero, Leonello Zaquini
Hello,
16 March 2010
after a few mails with JoeF and the KGR staff, I summarize here some
notes:
1)
The construction site of the first not mobile prototype of KiteGen has
started yesterday (2010-03-15).
It is going to be build on the top of a hill in
Berzano San Pietro (Province of Asti - Piedmont - northern Italy)
which is a very small
town... and we are talking about a KiteGen Stem,
of course.
Thanks to the availability of wind at high altitudes
and through the Kite Gen (R), you can provide, in each area, amount of
power even greater than those of fossil or nuclear energy currently
used and this without much Specimen layout, without creating hazards
for 'man, without creating environmental damage and at a cost
competitive with current market conditions. To reach the wind at high
altitudes and exploit the greater kinetic energy, Kite Gen from a
radical change of perspective: no more heavy structures and static as
the current wind turbines, but instead light machinery, dynamic and
intelligent. In the air, to steal energy from the wind to a height of
800/1000 meters, airfoils power, highly efficient wings semi automatic
pilot. On the ground, all the heavy machinery for power generation. To
merge the two systems, composite cables that transmit traction while
controlling the direction and angle to the wind.
March 16, 2010
Historically and for gaze of investors, site construction started
yesterday for KiteGen Stem operation site.
Public funds are involved.
WindOperationsWorldwide WOW
WOW http://www.windoperationsworldwide.eu/en/who-we-are/
[Not sure yet of the nature of the connections with KiteGen] Wind
Operations Worldwide.
The site is with content, but servers sometimes are having a challenge
serving the content.
Success of the KiteGen Stem will be important for all AWEIA community.
Stem So far, their stem is
a launching-control boom, not a working lever for generation, but an
assist for a Yo-Yo method.
(See differently boom methods: Hybrid method within the larger family of wafting levers, rotating
levers, rocking arms, oscillating levers, shaking handle, and TipBoom or
Tipping Boom. The Stem method involves some out and in with some period of
non-energy production. And blow starts, and 3-D onboard sensors.) KiteGen
moves into "stem" tech
Posted by
Ugo Bardi on July 6, 2009
Power Kites
for Wind Energy Generation
Fast Predictive Control of Tethered Airfoils
BY MASSIMO CANALE, LORENZO FAGIANO, and MARIO MILANESE
DECEMBER 2007 « IEEE CONTROL SYSTEMS MAGAZINE, 14 pages.
Large file.
Language used in video: Italian: film
(394 MB, approximately 52
minutes, Italian)
of the
presentation (Italian) (PDF document) of the
KiteGen project, held in Naples on 15th May 2008,
during "Solar Days 2008" (organized by the Province of Naples).
KiteGen project: control as key technology for a quantum leap in
wind energy generators,
Canale, M. Fagiano, L. Milanese, M. Ippolito, M.; Politecnico di
Torino, Turin; American Control Conference, 2007. ACC '07; Publication
Date: 9-13 July 2007;On page(s): 3522-3528 Location: New York, NY,;ISSN:
0743-1619
ISBN 1-4244-0988-8 ; INSPEC Accession Number:
9886703 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/ACC.2007.4282697 ;Current
Version Published: 2007-07-30
KG-yoyo configuration, traction phase, recovery phase, KSU,
Kite Steering Unit, kite modeling and control, on board sensors, ground
sensors, actuation unit, KG-farm, upwind kite, downwind kite, power density,
carousel configuration, KSU1, Politecnico di Torino, Regione Piemonte, test
performed in Sardegna (IT) in September2006, test performed near Casale (IT) in
January2008, MobileGen KSU1,
Future plans
•To build in 18 months a new yo-yo prototype with a power of 1 MW.
•This prototype will demonstrate the feasibility of building in further18
months a windfarm with a power of 10 MW with energy production costs lower than
from oil.
•To build in 36 months a prototype with carousel configuration, demonstrating
all the functionalities of a 50 MW plant on a circular structure of 500 m
radius.
