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or proposed a name for the industry that is focusing
on gathering for tertiary tasks the energy in winds gathered by tethered or free-flight means?

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Our emerging industry of capturing, converting, using, storing, and celebrating the energy in wind by use of tethered systems (single or multiple tethers from land, vehicles, buildings, other aircraft) is distinguishing itself from ground-hugging compressive towered-held wind turbines.  The tethered space places generators and application parts either aloft or in the tether's-mooring region. Hundreds of tethered solutions sparkle the emerging industry; the end of such innovation is not yet seen.

Global "wind power" has a strong momentum from the ground-hugging compressive-towered tri-blade industry; there is strong lobby to keep that status quo. The billions of dollars flowing into the hard towers keep "wind power" ever dominating the term.  It is wondered if Vestas, etc., will one day open a department dedicated to tethered wind power when it finally sees the potential "up there" in the sky above the dirt.  When tethered systems strongly demonstrate attractive return on investment (ROI), then will simply "wind power" absorb the tethered technology? The Wikipedia editor space is slow to let tethering have a place in "wind power" articles; lots of stopping and deleting is going on to maintain the narrow point of view of the hard towers. Many editors are just not seeing any installations of tethered wind energy conversion devices. Our industry has yet to post photographs and drawings into the public domain where editors can reference such matter; please release to public domain some of your images and drawings; and then let us know when you have done so; thanks.

Tethered wind energy conversion systems (including tethered terrain-enabled systems) that use various aerodynamic and buoyant lifting parts to capture wind's kinetic energy into mechanical energy, perhaps to be further converted to various energy forms, distinguishes itself by being tethered. Tethering permits reach to low altitudes, medium altitudes, and high altitudes of earth and other planets. Tethering streamed energy-capture devices may occur in the tiny spaces of vats, pipes, life-form body chambers, etc.  Scales: micro, mini, toy, sport, nomadic, residential, commercial, utility, national, free-flight.  In time, specialized industries will form within scales and for specialized applications of these tethered systems.  Traction, oscillation, rotary motion, and tension have their play.  Sport capture of wind's energy by tethered devices; and ocean boating and shipping  are adopting strongly tethered traction tug kite systems; these two realms are strong horsepower installations; the power could be estimated and reported as part of the success right now; careful estimation is invited by some masters student.

A strong movement regards getting utility-scale tethered wind energy conversion systems into significant commercial readiness to attract funds from investors; this realm is only part of the ultimate future of similar technology.  In this particular realm, it is known that there are strong reasons to distinguish between the systems dedicated to low-altitude energy mining from medium-altitude energy mining from high-altitude energy mining. Fuzzy consensus yet bothers the pressure altitudes meant by the low, medium, or high terms.

At the recent HAWP 2009 conference, the organizers forwarded that anything up at any altitutude by tether was under the umbrella of "high" without regard to just how high the devices were operating.  And there was formed a committee that is to bring out things for voting. We await those developments while continuing the following polling:

Active voting form, stage one:

Legend, so far (this will increase as comments and suggestions develop):   
T: Tethered       W: Wind    W: World        E: Energy   E: Earth     P: Power 
C: Conversion       S: Systems        S: Sky         L: Low      M: Medium      H: High   
 K: Kite       V: Very      I: Industry      I: International   
A: Airborne    A: Association    A: Alternative      A: Aerial    
A: Advanced   A: Aircraft    A:  Aerostat    G: Generation

Vote and comment:
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  • Low-altitude wind power, medium-altitude wind power, high altitude wind power              
    LAWP, MAWP, HAWP #2#
     

  • Low altitude wind energy, Medium-altitude wind energy, High-altitude wind energy
    LAWE, MAWE, HAWE #3#
     

  • High altitude wind power         HAWP #2#

  • High altitude wind energy           HAWE #3#

  • High altitude wind energy conversion systems     HAWECS ##

  • Wind energy conversion systems           WECS ##

  • Tethered wind energy conversion systems      TWECS #1#

  • Tethered wind power conversion systems        TWPCS ##
     

  • Tethered low-altitude wind power,
    Tethered medium-altitude wind power,
    Tethered high altitude wind power  
    TLAWP, TMAWP, THAWP ##
     

  • HAWP:  LA-HAWP, MA-HAWP, VHA-HAWP #1#
     

  • THAWP: TLA-HAWP, TMA-HAWP, TVHA-HAWP ##

  • WE##

  • WP##

  • TWE#2#

  • TWP##

  • TWE:  LATWE, MATWE, HATWE#1#
     

  • TWE:    TWELA, TWEMA, TWEHA ##
     

  • TWP: LATWP, MATWP, HATWP #1#

  • WET ##

  • WPT ##

  • Airborne Wind Energy        AWE #5#
     

  • Airborne Wind Energy Conversion Systems         AWECS #5#
     

  • Airborne Wind Energy Industry Association  AWEIA #3#
     

  • AWE:  AWECS, AWEIA #2#
     

  • AWE: AWECS, AWEIA, microAWE, miniAWE, toyAWE, sportAWE, nomadicAWE, residentialAWE commercialAWE, utilityAWE, nationalAWE, Free-FlightAWE, FF-AWE #1#
     

  • TWECS:    LATWECS, MATWECS, HATWECS #1#

  • TLAWE ##

  • MAWPT ##

  • KES #1#

  • EKS #1#

  • KES: LAKES, MAKES, HAKES ##

  • EKS: LAEKS, MAEKS, HAEKS ##

  • SWP ##

  • TSWP ##

  • Tethered Wind International             TWI ##

  • Tethered Wind Association            TWA ##

  • Tethered Wind Energy Industry           TWEI ##

  • Tethered Wind Power Industry             TWPI ##

  • TWPA ##

  • TWEA ##

  • Alternative Wind Energy Systems         AWES #1#

  • Alternative Wind Power Systems         AWPS #1#

  • Aerial Wind Power Generation           AWPG  ##

  • High altitude wind turbines            HAWT ##

  • High altitude turbines             HAT  ##

  •  High Altitude Tethered Turbines           HATT ##

  • Tethered Wind Turbines            TWT  ##

  • Kited Energy Conversion Systems          KECS  #2#

  •  Kited Wind Energy Conversion Systems    KWECS ##

  • Aerostat Wind Energy Conversion Systems       AWECS ##

  •  Aircraft Wind Energy Conversion Systems        AWECS ##

  • Alternative Wind Energy               AWE #2#

  • Alternative Wind Power               AWP##

  • Aircraft Wind Energy               AWE  ##

  • Alternative Wind Energy Conversion Systems       AWECS ##

  • Aerostat Wind Energy            AWE ##

  • Aerial Wind Energy Conversion Systems         AWECS ##

  •  Aerial Wind Energy             AWE##

  •  Kite-Driven Wind Power         KDWP ##

  •  Kite Wind Power           KWP ##

  • Next Wind Power                NWP ##

  • Kite Power Association             KPA ##

  • International Tethered Wind Power Association        ITWPA ##

  • Earth's Wind Power by Kiting Association    EWPbKA ##

  •  World Wind Power Association           WWPA##

  •  Tethered Eolian Power                     TEP ##

  •  Tethered Aeolian Power                 TAP ##

  •  Tethered Energy                  TE ##

  • Tethered Wind International Association   TWIA ##

  • Aerial Wind Power             AWP ##

  • Drachen Wind Power        DWP ##

  • Tethered Wind Energy Systems              TWES  ##

  •  Flying Turbine Society              FTS ##

  • Flying Generator Association        FGA ##

  • Flying Generators Association           FGA ##

  •  Tethered Wind Generators          TWG##

  •  Drachen Wind Energy          DWE##

  • Roped Wind Power          RWP##

  • Tethered Tower Turbines          TTT##

  • Advanced Wind Energy Systems        AWES#1#

  • Advanced Wind Energy Conversion Systems        AWECS#1#

  • High Frontier Wind Energy                    HFWE#2#

  • Next generation Wind Energy Systems                 NGWES#1#

  • Intergalactic Wind Energy Systems                   IWES#1#

  • Stupid Flying Wind Turbines                  SFWT#1#

  • Wind Turbines About to Fall on Your Head         WTAFOYH#1#

  • Kite-borne power                      KBP##

  • Kytoon-borne power                  KBP##

  • Kited wind turbine society             KWTS##

  • Kite Energy                KE##

  • Kite energy association            KEA##

  • Wind Mining Kite Association       WMKA##

  • Altitude wind power turbines         AWPT##

  • Beyond Conventional Wind Energy        BCWE##

  • Unconventional Wind Power           UWP##

  • Unconventional Wind Turbines           UWT##

  • Tethered Paraglider Wind-Water Power Society      TPWWPS##

  • Tethered high quality wind power         THQWP##

  • Aerostat Wind Turbines        AWT##
     

  • Taken on net with towered emphasis now:  Airborne Wind Turbines       AWT#1#
    Joby Energy seems to be using AWT as generic reference for their bird.
     

  • Aircraft Wind Turbines          AWT##

  • Kite Wind Power Systems        KWPS##

  • Kite Wind Power Association       KWPA##

  • Aerostat Wind Power Association       AWPA##

  • Sport AWECS Association          SAWECSA##

  • Mini-AWE Association       MAWEA##

  • Residential-AWE Association        RAWEA##

  • Nomadic Kite Wind Power Association       NKWPA##

  • Nomadic AWE Association              NAWEA##

  • Faired-Tether AWECS Club        FTAWECSC##

  • Makani Power AWE Association         MPAWEA##

  • Sky Wind Power Association               SWPA##

  • SkyMill Association                   SMA##

  • Aerostat-Lifted Wind Power Systems Society     ALWPSS##

  • New Frontier Wind Power Society         NFWPS##

  • Kite Wind Power Systems Association     KWPSA##

  • Autonomous Tethered Flight Systems     ATFS   ##

  • High Altitude Wind Energy Mining        HAWEM##

  •   High Altitude Wind Energy Conversion Association     HAWECA##

  • High Altitude Wind Generation Association    HAWGA##

  • Tethered Aviation Association      TAA##

  • Tethered Wind Energy Conversion Association    TWECA##

  • Working Kite Association       WKA##

  • Working Aerostat Association     WAA##

  • Working Tethered Aircraft Association   WTAA##

  • Global Working Kite Association     GWKA##

  • World Working Kite Association  WWKA##

  • High Altitude Airborne Wind Power Organization      HAAWPO##

  • High Altitude Windpower Kiting      HAWK##

  • International Kite Power Association    IKPA ##

  • Airborne Wind Turbine Technology Association  AWTTA##

  • Airborne Wind Turbine Society   AWTS##

  • Airborne Wind Turbine Association   AWTA##

  • Airborne Wind Power Association AWPA##

  • High Altitude Wind Energy Association HAWEA#2#

  • Airborne Wind Technology    AWT#2#

  • Airborne Wind Energy Technology    AWET#8+?#

  • Airborne Wind Energy Technology Society    AWETS##

  • Airborne Wind Energy Technology Association    AWETA##

  • Tethered Flight   TF #2#

  • Airborne Wind Energy Community  AWEC##

  • Airborne Wind Energy Conversions    AWEC##

  • Airborne Wind Energy Club    AWEC##

  • Airborne Wind Energy Consortium    AWEC##

  • Airborne Wind Energy Conversion Systems International Industry Association     AWECSIIA##

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Your  reasons, comments, and suggestions:
 
 
Commentary:
  1. dS twice, at least, strongly recommended:  LAWP, MAWP, HAWP with comment that the three sectors are strongly deserving pointed technology.    jF: Seems to still include compression towering.
     
  2. WP alone does not express conversion of the wind's power.
     
  3. SWP is also the name of a company in our industry. Sky WindPower. Confusion might be tolerated or not.
     
  4. DSe:  Leave naming alone. Get systems flying and generating first. Name the industry later.  See: M650
     
  5. Lobby Vestas to open a tethered department and buy all IP and hire the expert tether people.
     
  6. AWE tends to neglect some important tethered terrain enabled systems.
     
  7. LP:          LA-HA, MA-HA, VHA-HA  invites derision.
     
  8. Collaboration will install names in due time.
     
  9. Kite energy systems may be moor to poles and towers for various niche reasons.
     
  10. Kite-energy system farms could have elements moored to terrain-enabled bridging cables.
     
  11. We are waaay too close to this.
     
  12. Win what we can, not what we'd like.  Compromise.
     
  13. Leave fine gradations to in-house discussions.  Public are caring about fine altitudes gradations.
     
  14. AWE:  "Airborne" == supported by the air, by aerodynamic forces.    See: M657
     
  15. Get things working first.
     
  16. How about "Alternative Wind Energy Systems" AWES or "Alternative Wind Power Systems" AWPS. My reasoning for this is that it includes everything but towered wind turbines, whether it is supported between two hills, by a kite, or an aerostat. To have something all-encompassing it needs to be generalized. 
    TO RESPONDENT: How does it exclude towered wind turbines?  Notes@EnergyKiteSystems.net  
     
  17. Most of the shown titles are not names of any business yet.
     
  18. Dan Parker signed for TWE      Tethered Wind Energy.
     
  19. Confusion:  HAWT as horizontal axis wind turbines or HAWT as high altitude wind turbines.
     
  20. Competitors for AWECS acronym, so far:
    • Aerostat Wind Energy Conversion Systems     AWECS
    • Aerial Wind Energy Conversion Systems         AWECS
    • Airborne Wind Energy Conversion Systems    AWECS
    • Alternative Wind Energy Conversion Systems  AWECS
    • Aircraft Wind Energy Conversion Systems      AWECS
       
  21. Anyone will call Kite Energy what they will for there is no unified vision.   ds   [Yet?]
     
  22. AWE best practice & truth-in-advertising will use LAWP, MAWP, & HAWP in context.
    Energetic misuse of HAWP is diagnostic of hype marketing, weak aviation culture, & poor competitive potential.     ds
     
  23. Competitors for AWE acronym, so far:
    • Airborne Wind Energy       AWE
    • Aerial Wind Energy            AWE
    • Aerostat Wind Energy       AWE
    • Alternative Wind Energy    AWE
    • Aircraft Wind Energy        AWE
       
  24. I like to use "Kites" in the name- maybe subjective, since I love kites, but it explains the principle much faster to people. Otherwise AWE is simple and to the point.
    Christoff Muller
    South Africa                      KECS        or     AWE
     
  25. LP holds with DaveL that Alternative should be in the front name in contraposition to the conventional which is mostly the towered groundhuggers.   LP specified    AWE    for Alternative Wind Energy.
     
  26. "Alternative" might bring in the following non-tethered devices that are alternatives of wind power away from the Danish direction:  WindSpire, EarthFoil, wafting fences, wavering trees pumping, sail carts, standing Savonius wings, etc.      Also, in many circles, ANY WIND is considered to be "Alternative Wind Energy" as in this titled page ....see top of browser for page title, although they text with "Alternative Energy" and then speak of wind....going heavy to the default towered turbines: http://www.palmdalewater.org/oc/AE/wind.html v
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  27. Selsam: "The word "Alternative" has become so ubiquitous as to be ignored by the reader's
    eye."  And more:  See M694       HFWE    He noticed that many AWECS will have groundstations that amount to being some kind of tower.
  28. floating turbines
  29. lighter than air turbines
  30. unconventional turbines
  31. Joby is using emphatically:   AWT   airborne wind turbine
  32. Airbine™    is taken.  
  33. Airogy™     is taken.  Notice that there is no "l" in the name.
  34. Autonomous Tethered Flight Systems     ATFS
  35. Roger C.   is in February 2010 still working on a name for the AWECS industry.
  36. Sunday February 21, 2010:   voter:   Airborne Wind Energy   AWE
  37. JoeBen Bevirt  forwarded      Airborne Wind Technology     
    in talk toward amending
    H.R. 3165: Wind Energy Research and Development Act of 2009
     
  38. Good thoughts, I like "Airborne Wind Technology". In context of a wind energy proposal and this bill it works. Out of that context it sounds like something to do with airplanes.
    I think that "Airborne Wind Energy Technology" is clearer and everyone gets the idea of what it is all about. I agree energy is a stronger word then power.   Grant Calverley
     
  39. National AWE conference call working committee to amend HR 3165 voted unanimously for "airborne wind energy technology" to be our formal entry for a modification to the bill.
    March 5, 2010. 8 a.m. PST ...USA national AWE phone conference:
     E-mail collaboration and then phone conference re: HR 3165 amendments.
    Decided: "airborne wind energy technology"

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