Skymill Energy, Inc., aka SkyMill Energy, Inc

• Gyrokites/conversations/messages/11   Discuss the corporation and its works.
• Principals:  Grant Calverley, president.       David Lang, team member.
• NetFootprintSKYMILLENERGYINC      On January 26, 2014, "3,490 results"
• In 2009: Field show-and-tell of some hardware prototype at High-Altitude Wind Power conference near Chico, CA.
• In 2010, a presentation: http://technology5.net/s/skymill-energy,-inc.-w707.html    SkyMill Energy, Inc., A Practical Approach to Tap the Power of High-Altitude Wind, Airborne Wind Energy Conference, September 29, 2010.   PDF    Scott Webster, apparent delivery.
• Patent application
• "Manufacturer/Proponent 5NG01" shows at ArmyProperty.com
• [ ] Date of David Lang joining the company?
• Dave Lang is carefully modeling the involved AWES.
• The sky’s no limit    PDF document is an illustrated (artist conceptions) essay by a PES writer. "...particularly in India and China. Our short-term goals include the developing and selling the concept as a persistent high-altitude platform with civilian and military uses.”  And, "...however, they have failed to discover the key rotary airfoil innovation that makes the SkyMill system practical on a commercial scale,” *
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• * Differently, others had found the rotary motion for AWES before this corporation even started. Evidence is in the literature. ~ JoeF, 25Jan2014
• The company seems to be betting on failure tolerance, scalability, and capacity factors to set it apart from contemporary competitors.  We have seen no certified studies on these aspects on this or other companies' projects.  ~ JoeF, 25Jan2014
• Competing companies are exploring lifted (HTA and LTA) HAWT where the autorotating blades are blunt to the wind and not canted as in the gyrokite scheme.  ~ JoeF, 25Jan2014