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Artificial thermals for soaring      
Plans, experiments, concepts: all welcome. Send text, drawings, reports, etc.
Artificial thermals form a sector of artificial lift
for hang gliders, gliders, sailplanes, kites, paragliders, parachutists, skydivers, etc.

• Patents
• Examples
• Concepts
• Drawings
• Reports of experiments

• Black bodies and black surfaces
• Heat of compression
• Ambient temperature of air mass
• Opportunities on cold days
• Opportunities on calm wind days
• Opportunities in directing wind
• Geothermal opportunities
• Hot-house opportunities
• Clear-glass shrouding
• Clear-plastic shrouding
• Hot spring opportunities
• Structured nations where serial artificial thermals allow dependable transport of goods and people
• Kite energy systems using energy to heat captured air for cycled release to give thermal for HG
• Solar-energy farms
• Roofing decisions
• Sectored raised encapsulations with triggered opening of the covers
• Designer thermals
• Timed thermals
• Triggering thermals
• Thermal measuring
• Thermal visualization
• Thermal classification
• Tumbling in thermals.   Tumbling mitigation.
• Economics of artificial thermals
• Thermal shaping
• Pulsed thermals
• Thermal texturing
• Thermal separation engineering
• Electrical measures of the thermal environment
• Role of water in artificial thermal engineering (liquid, vapor, steam, humidity, air conditioning, ...)
• Giving odors to artificial thermals
• Giving treatments to thermals to provide certain kinds of thermal visualization (natural visible or special types of instruments)
• Vertical velocities of artificial thermals
• Flatland long vent
• Long sequenced venting
• White and black
• Ocean-city black roof
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