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KiteLab
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Santos KiteLab link set
- Kite Electricity Generating Systems
- Methodology
- Kite types
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AWE February 2009 images, vids
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Update report from KiteLab with
exciting video. Feb. 25, 2009
- ...? more to come and
flipwing
, Soft Wing Mill, Soft Wing Mill See also:
M42
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Tether-Tripod
- June 2009
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Passive-control on lifter-kited Dutch-roll power cycle
- KiteLab is now a partner of
GVEP, a major UK charity
supporting alternative energy equity in the developing world.
5 Feb 2010
Single-Line Rotary-Power Demonstration
It has long been thought that a looping kite could directly drive a crank
on the ground by a single line, but demonstrations were lacking. Last
wednesday, in high wind, KiteLab Ilwaco made the idea work.
The looper was but a crude foam panel wing with a tri-bridle setting its
CP & AoA. Any parafoil power kite can be rigged similarly. The inside wing
tip was strung up to a tree, but a pilot kite would have served. The crank
was a heavy bent wire with a plastic spool as a bearing. Fingers on the
crank-shaft served as a De Prony brake to feel power seemingly just as
vigorous as if a solid turbine & drive shaft were employed.
This is close to The Grail, a simple way to make a "flying turbine tip"
drive a generator on the ground by a single line to one anchor point.
There are two basic requirements for this mechanism. The crank axis must
point right at the center of the kite loop circle & the crank be rigidly
held so as not to slop about.
The next single-line rotary power experiments will use serious power
kites, looping under pilot kites, to drive real loads. KiteLab Ilwaco has
previously shown effective rotary power by three lines & reciprocating
power by one line.
ds for CoopIP |
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