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IEEE
pronounced Eye-triple-E A non-profit organization, IEEE is the
world's leading professional association for the advancement of
technology. Many of its members are providing solutions for energy
kite systems. More than 375,000 members
including nearly 80,000 student members in more than 160 countries.
Ikhana
The aircraft has been named "Ikhana" (ee-kah-nah), a Native American
word from the Choctaw Nation meaning intelligent, conscious or aware.
Ikhana
is an uninhabited aircraft system: Predator B unmanned aircraft system
adapted for civilian missions purchased by NASA.
IKAROS was launched by the H-IIA F17 from the Tanegashima
Space Center at 6:58:22AM (JST) on May 21 2010.
intellectual property (IP).
Consider for AWE community a Patent Pool, which see
M164
interest
intermittency, wind intermittency
intermittent
intermittent kite energy
intermittency of wind
intermittent gearing
intermittent source
intermittent wind energy
internal ratchet mechanism
Internet marketing
of kite systems, of AWES, of energy kites, of sport kite systems, of
hobby kite systems, of scientific kite systems, of purposeful kite
systems, of kited wings, of kite solutions,
On a wing that has an airfoil that is arched, then
the curve on the underside is the intrados. Some extend the term to
identify the skin that materializes that underside curve.
In architecture an intrados is the interior curve of
an arch. The term is especially applied to the inner or lower curved
face of the whole body of voussoirs taken together.
Pour les voiles constituées de caissons. L'intrados est le dessous
de la voile.
L'extrados est le dessus de la voile.
A thin sheet curved convex up has an upper side and a
lower side; the curve of the lower side is the intrados; some uses move
further on the term and identify the material skin for that underside as
the intrado or intrados. Similarly for the upper curve as extrados with
some moving the term into a use that identifies the material skin of the
curved item as the extrado or extrados.
An idealized curved line has extrados and
intrados; such idealized line has no material skin. A wing that is
curved has a top curve and a lower curve; the curves are sometimes
referred to as extrados and intrados, respectively. If material skins
are used for those curves, some identify the material skin used as
extrados and intrados, respectively. Dropping the "s" is done by some
users: extrado or intrado, respectively.
The XXLite's upper surface curve is an idealized
curve; the material forming he skin of that upper surface may by some
users be called the extrados or extrado. The XXLite has two sectors to
its airfoil in the lower region; the frontal sector of the airfoil in
the lower region has a curve when loaded in flight; such curve is
skinned using contiguous material that flows to the top surface; the
skin on that lower surface frontal section may be referred by some users
as the intrados or intrado of that wing for the frontal lower sector.
Then the wing has a large aft lower curve that is the intrados of the
wing for that larger aft section of the wing; the material skin of that
aft intrados, if already specified as the skin of the extrados, then one
may say that a second skin is not used for the aft sector of the
intrados; some will say then that there is no intrados for that aft
section of that wing; but indeed the curve is there and the skin is
there; it is just that the same material skin is used for both the
curves: the extrados and the intrados, if one neglects to see that the
actual curves are actually finely distinct. The ordinary goal of
the distinctions is to sort that in the aft section of the wing, only
one material sheet of cloth is used to effect both the extrados and
intrados; that sheet of cloth has an upper side or upper surface and a
lower side or lower surface; those surfaces have curves to them that are
finely distinct. For related matter, see KFm airfoils.
Kline Fogleman airfoils.
inventive kite
| patent kites would be a proper subset of inventive kites;
strictly, some patent kites are not absolutely inventive kites, but have
received some nod toward novelty in some patent office; a concept of
locally inventive kite might resolve here. |
inversion (of mechanism)
inverse
inverse propeller
inverted kite (e.g. in
water, the paravane would be set to "fly" toward the bottom)
Patent
ionocraft
wiki
See many videos in YouTube under "Lifter
ion" Claims of the device working in a vacuum have been disproved.
Ionocraft require many safety precautions due to the high voltage
required for their operation, and also the risk of premature death from
heart or lung disease due to the inhalation of their ionized air
product, ozone.
iPGS innovative power generation system (at
UC Davis, California, USA; Professors Platzer and Sarigul‐Klijn)
ISO (the
International Organization for Standardization)
ISO (International
Organization for Standardization) is the world’s largest developer of
voluntary International Standards.
ISOAWESTC open
provisional technical committee working on standards potential
acceptable to ISO for AWES industry matters. ISOAWESTC
was born on Dec. 6, 2012.
Isotropywiki
directionally dependent. See differently: anisotropy
In kite energy: wings face
apparent wind (anisotropic), or wings can be radially symmetrical (isotropic)
Vast isotropic arrays working multiple tethers is getting high plaudits.