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  • Edeiken . Also found: Edeikin.     Steve Gary Edeiken of Venice, California at a Long Beach, Washington, kite effort: large parafoil launch accident in 1983.   Steve Edeiken.    d. Sept. 24, 1983.
  • edge
  • eddy
  • eddy-flap
  • EERE         Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)
  • effective wind
  • efficiency
  • e-flight, e-FLPHG, Helikite
  • EGR  electrical generating rotorcraft      (various types:  some are power users for launch; some are kites).  Windmill kite.
  • EHD  electrohydrodynamics 
  • EHD    energy-harvesting dirigible
  • EHG, EHGs     ..one method of FFAWE.  Energy-haversting gliders.
  • eight      Figure-of-eight pattern
  • eights     Set of figure-of-eight kite-path pattern
  • EK30 demonstrator  by EnerKite of Berlin   |   2012  
  • EKFA   Energy-Kite Farms Association    ... for those developing kite system farms, energy-kite farms, kite-turbine farms, kite farms dedicated to working kites that do practical secondary tasks, etc.
  • Ekman spiral
  • EKS   energy kite systems         www.energykitesystems.net
  • EKSS    energy kite systems sounds        M3693      ...more than musical kites
  • elastic lines
  • elastic potential energy   (in tethers, in springs, in bungees)  [other sorts of potential energy: chemical bonds, gravitational, electric potential energy,]   A kite loads its tether with elastic potential energy; a kite lifts the mass of its wing and payload and tether to form a gravitational potential energy situation.
     
  • elastic return
  • elastic tether
  • elastic tail tether
     
  • electric aircraft      wiki    
  • electrical engineers  play a large role in many AWECS
  • electrical generating components
  • electrical motor/generator      In some AWES, a motor may revert to being a generator.
  • electrical power conditioning
  • electrical resistance
  • electrical safety
  • electrical technicians play a large role in many AWECS
  • electrical units
  • electric assistive launch
  • electric drive 
  • electric grid, flutter
  • electric hang gliders
  • electric industry
  • "electricity-generating kite"       [AWE | Cristina L. Archer Interview Clips]
  • electricity        GLOSSARIES
  • electricity storage
  • electric kite          (consider various  sectors .. .)
  • electric motors
  • electric multicopters   uninhabited or inhabited
    • e-volo   http://www.e-volo.com/       VC1  on  October 21, 2011  "volocopter"   |  In 2012:  VC2 Volocopter
    • dvolo or d-volo is to have a drive unit
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  • electric potential
  • electric powered hang gliders
     
  • electroactive polymers  EAPs      wiki
  • Electrogravitics Systems        electrogravitic       Article33      wiki     (Caution)   Ionocraft
  • electrokinetic apparatus
  • Electrokinetic phenomena        wiki       (subset activity: Lifter craze:  Vid1  )   
    See also electrohydrodynamics (EHD)
     
  • Electromobility powered by regenerative energies.
    Kitricity is a choice for electromobility.
     
  • electronic speed controller (ESP)    Ref1
  • electronic system
  • electrodynamics
     
  • electrodynamic tether     Electrodynamic tethers are long conducting wires, such as the one deployed from the tether satellite, which can operate on electromagnetic principles as generators, by converting their kinetic energy to electrical energy, or as motors, converting electrical energy to kinetic energy. Electric potential is generated across a conductive tether by its motion through the Earth's magnetic field.
     
  • electrodynamic tether       wiki/Electrodynamic_tether
  • electrolysis of water
  • electromagnet        wiki
    • electromagnetic induction
    • electromagnetic release systems for kiting       Discuss
    • Electromagnetic transduction
    • electromagnetic transducers
  • electronic controllers
  • electronic rope
  • electrosphere
  • Electrostatic induction        wiki   
  • electrostatics     wiki   
  • ElectroTethers- A reel for an electrotether needs rotary contacts to convey current past itself. Such reels typically require special insulation & grounding. Winding an electrotether into many coils on a reel will cause well known impedance & magnetic field effects. High voltage, high frequency AC, & ferrous reel construction augment such effects. Inductive & resistive heating  of electrotether on the reel may be a factor. AWE schemes requiring high current VTOL from a loaded reel could be particularly problematic.      Ref1dsM1064 
     
  • Elektra Tow, LLC    |   ET   |    Mitch Shipley    | Mitchell Shipley | Mitchell N. Shipley | 32560 Lakeshore Dr Tavares, FL 32778-5004   | Elektra Tow Systems  |  Elektra Tow Syst LLC  |  Elektra Tow Systems LLC has a location in Tavares, FL. Active officers include Mitchell N Shipley. Elektra Tow Systems LLC filed as a Florida Limited Liability on Tuesday, January 11, 2011 in the state of Florida and is currently active. Mitchell N Shipley serves as the registered agent for this organization http://tinyurl.com/ElektraTowSystIMAGES    | Florida Annual Report  |  "OK, it's been almost a year now that your Quest Air team has been working with, refining, testing and using the Elektra Tow (ET) system"  |   |   |
     
  • elevated sails  (kites)   
  • elevated wind-driven power plant            By "elevated" is sometimes meant "aerial" or lifted to high elevations by way of kite or kites-balloon methods. 
  • elevators       Study within kite-system realms.
  • elevator ribbon     Space Elevator
  • ellipse  in kiting
    • HPK in two-pulley arrangement, path of the wing
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  • embedded systems
  • emergency kite operation
     
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  • EMH  electric-motor harness for FLPHG    
  • EMP   electromotive pulse             
  • EMP   electromagnetic pulse                Concern also with HEMP, high-altitude EMP
     
  • Empa      Ref1        Photos
  • empennage                             wiki            |         generalImages   |     [[ high hats, high tail ]]
  • empirical design approach
     
  • emulation
     
  • emulator        wiki
     
  • enactive switching (term formed by Allister Furey and Inman Harvey on page 5 of document.
     
  • encampment, especially kite-energy technical encampment,
  • endless loop, fan-belt, rotating tether,   for driving groundgens, operating devices, transmitting forces from one point to another,    Notice that a tether  may rotate as a whole body in an endless loop or rotate as in twisting torsionally; or both at once. The rotovator regards the endless loop where a marked point on the loop may begin low and then go high and then return to low again through pulleys.  Torsion tethers rotate about the short longitudinal centerline of the tether; the tether might be a torsion tube or torsion cable.
    See also a specialized tether for space operations: rotovator  
     
  • endless power-transmission cables     http://tinyurl.com/EndLessPowerTransmission in kite system for generating mechanical or electrical energy at ground-based generator   There are two-line schemes. There are three-line schemes where two of the lines are actually the sides of an endless power-transmission line.
     
  • endorsement of concept
  • end-to-end efficiency
     
  • energetic-synergetic geometry
  • energy                           Our folder:  energy
  • energy absorption
     
  • energy access        versus energy excess
    • Adequate energy access by all people on earth is a goal of many AWE workers.   Energy waste, abuse of energy, and abuse of environment by wasteful use of energy are core concerns for many people. 
    • Jevons Paradox
    • Work done where and when not wanted is like perfectly honorable plants seen as weeds in a designer's garden.  Hurricanes expending energy over a human city might end in fully destroying what the humans wanted.
    • consumption rebound effects
    • Limits to growth     (Club of Rome, wiki)
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  • Energy Aviation, energy aviation             
  • energy capture versus energy production
  • energy content of wind  (proportional to the "cube of wind speed")
  • energy control system
  • energy conversion, energy converting, forms of energy, Law of Conservation of Energy, mass-energy equivalence E=mc^2, energy converters, kite as energy converter, kite as AWES,
  • Energy Economics
  • energy economics
  • energy experiments
  • energy extraction
  • energy-generating kites
  • energy glider 
    • http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/DSUTWP/    Group dedicated to energy gliders and energy sailplanes. Untethered energy gliders.
    • (kite that cycles into glider phase in cycles); tethered energy glider     Tethered energy gliders.
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  • energy harvest period, energy harvesting period, energy-harvesting phase,
  • energy harvesting system
  • energykite, energyKite, energykites, energyKites, EnergyKite, EnergyKites,
  • energy kite
  • Energy Kite Farms, Energy Kite Farming, energy-kite farms, energy-kite farming, energy-kite farms, Energy-Kite Farms Association (EKFA)
  • energy kite system, energy-kite systems,
  • EnergyKiteSystems   EnergyKiteSystems.net
  • energy management
  • energy production
  • energy portfolio
  • energy return
  • energy return on energy investment (EROEI)        or ROI (return on investment)     wiki
  • energy transmission
  • energy storage                       Our folder: Energy Storage
     
  • energy storage system (e.g., raise water, compress air, split water to hydrogen and oxygen, charge batteries, charge ultracapacitors, lift mass, make and store heat,  flywheel, ... )  Energy kite systems may use the generated energy immediately or store the energy, or place the energy into a community grid.
    • CAES    Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES)    wiki 
    • PSH   Pumped-storage hydroelectricity     wiki    Sometimes: PHS for pumped hydro storage. PSH and PHS are found.
    • Chemicals
    • Flywheel
    • Lifted mass for later drop.   Kite systems may lift mass and then later drop the mass.  Soil or water may be lifted up a mountain and later dropped down an incline or pipe.
    • Flying a hang glider in a thermal puts potential energy into the pilot and wing; that energy may later be spent for gliding down the aerial inclines.
    • A person hiking up a hill is storing potential energy into his or her body; that energy may be used for rolling or gliding down the hill or aerial inclines. Falling uses potential energy of a raised mass.
    • Liquid Air (LA)
    • Thermal energy storage     |   wiki   |
    • DSUTWP   energy stored in energy sailplanes and energy gliders or energy hang gliders are discussed.
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  • energy conversion
  • energy storage         wiki
    • wiki/Flywheel_energy_storage
    • potential energy of mass at height above the center of the earth
    • chemical batteries
    • heat sinks
    • gas-pressure vessels
    • fuel
    • kinetic energy         A mass in motion is storing energy.
    • devices, accumulators
    • A kite system stores energy in gravitational potential energy and in kinetic energy and in strain energy, as well as in other forms of energy.
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  • energy-storage enhanced AWECS    ESE-AWECS
  • energy transducing physics                     wiki/Transducer
  • energy waste        
    • Will functionally infinite low-cost energy bring abuse of the environment by way of excessive use of energy?
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  • energy waves
  • energy waves
  • Energy Wing™,  EnergyWing™    Dave Santos  of KiteLab Group has firmed trademark use.  Public notice: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/AirborneWindEnergy/message/4195
     
  • EnerKite                            Alex Bormann
  • EnerKite Control Unit
  • EnerKites      (plural of devices used by company EnerKite)
  • EnerKite Experimental Power Plant
  • EnerKite
  • EnerKite   ...a project.    See Aeroix
     
  • engine
  • engine load relief             When an AWES is used to supplant what an engine is achieving in a work in such a way that the engine is relieved of powering, then the amount of that relief from the AWES is an instance of engine load relief.
  • enthalpy            wiki/Enthalpy             
  • entrainment
  • environmental impact studies
  • environmental perturbations
     
  • eolian power plants,    aeolian power plants
     
  • eolic      wiki    See also aeolic
  • eolic energy.
  • EOR    end of run.      Opposite is SOR   or start of run.
  • equilateral triangle
  • EPFL             ] Our folder:  EPFL ]
  • ePG   eHG        electric motor assisted PG   or HG.
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  • equipoise                     Walker, 1903.
  • ER      evolutionary robotics       Presentation2010 
  • erg
  • EROEI   energy return on energy invested (EROEI).    wiki
     
  • escapes   A kite that escapes from its designed hold is an escape.
     
  • ESD (Electrostatic discharge)     wiki
     
  • ESE-AWECS    energy storage enhanced airborne wind energy conversion system 
  • ESP  Ejector Safety Performance ,  ESP control bar,       Video
  • ESS = End of Speed Section        in free-flight competition task
     
  • ETE efficiency   end-to-end efficiency           ETEE       E3  

     

  • ethics in kite energy and AWE
  • Etzler        John Adolphus Etzler        1833 envisioned high altitude wind power
  • ETOPS      
    • AWE ETOPS as a generic term for issues of persistent flight of our AWECS" ~DS
    • "ETOPS is largely driven by concerns for engine reliability and distance from a safe landing place in case of engine failure. I think it would be quite a stretch to apply it to AWE except to use it as a precedent for special rules to address new concepts."    ~CC   
    • Chris,   While existing ETOPS rules have nothing directly to do with AWE, the underlying abstraction of "extended operations" is far broader than the initial civil aviation case and include our persistent-flight operations. Similarly, many aspects of existing aviation regs can be cloned or reused for rapid development of AWE. This is just basic modern enterprise design. What is proposed is to leverage the aviation pattern language and inherit many of the existing class parameters. So "AWE ETOPS" is just an intuitive new class of an ETOPS category, as a default, pending some better classification scheme. Feel free to rename AWE ETOPS, if you find the usage too confusing, but you will find the same object-oriented enterprise strategy across the entire TACO.

      We are not trying to "stretch" the existing framework and break it, but extend it logically. The existing reg framework already is highly object oriented (aircraft/pilot rating, category, class, type, etc). If we had to invent AWE regs from scratch, we would still be at square one,      daveS
        
    • Note to Chris: How about we create a new category of operations named EndurOps or PersistOps, to avoid semantic confusion with a narrow use of ETOPS?
    • ETOP is also used as a name for electrified tethered observation platform
      http://www.iai.co.il/35735-41817-en/Groups_Military_Aircraft_MALAT_Products.aspx
       
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  • ETU energy transmission unit
  • EUROCONTROL
  • EU-AWECS ever-up AWECS, EverUpAWE, EverUpAWECS
  • EUS AWES   electric utility scale airborne wind energy systems, usually assumed to be tethered kite systems, else specify untethered airborne systems for clarification.
  • EU-TEWP   ever-up terrain enabled wing power
  • EVA  equilibrium vector analysis
  • EVBs   evaluation boards  
  • EverUP,  ever-up AWECS, EU-AWE
    EverUP AWE
  • EverUP AWECS
  • ever-up terrain enabled wing power   EU-TEWP
  • ever-up tethered WECS, EU-TWECS
  • ever-up all storm TWECS, EUAS-TWECS.    TWECS that can fly in any anticipated storm and stay up for months or more.
  • EVFR           Electronic Visual Flight Rules
  • evolutionary robotics   See ER       generalStudy  
  • E-Walk      An trade name for a product by Skywalk.    skywalk E-WALK 06.10.10.mov
     
  • eWind Solutions, LLC            company
     
  • Exergy               wiki
     
  • EXIT weight = Pilots TOTAL weight including ALL equipment when flying.
     
  • exosmosis  
     
  • expedition kiting
  • experimentalAWE, experimental AWE  
  • experimental smallAWE
  • experimentalTugAWECS, experimentalTugAWE, experimental-tug AWE,
  • expert programs
  • EXTOPS   ??    .... rather see ETOPS
    AWE ETOPS as a generic term for issues of persistent flight of our AWECS      
  • extraction potential
  • Extraterrestrial
    • Extraterrestrial Imperative       by  Krafft Arnold Ehricke
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  • Exquadrum, Inc.
  • exurb   

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