AWE Sector

• September 2010: Welcome expert in mathematical modeling http://www.uta.edu/math/pages/faculty/liao.htm
• June 2010
  • www.yogenstore.com Use it in an AWECS. Scale up.  YoGen®
  • Airbine™   
  • http://www.ultracapacitors.org/index.php?option=com_content&Itemid=64&id=29&task=view
  • 2nd Generation Wind, AWE grant, Bart van Dissel
  • 2004 exploration by Peter Lynn

May 2010 progress: 

• AWE Journal started.    Full.      AbstractsPublic
• AWE Journal   guide for authors page started.
• AWEIA join form initiated.  www.aweia.org
• AWE Patents monthly announced.
• AWE Notes monthly announced.
• AWE Glossary featured in an announcement.
• AWE Quarters announced and outlined. Quarterly for AWEIA.
• AWE Companies started: Airborne Wind Energy Companies  will list AWEIA company members including supply chain companies.

• Publications for AWEIA members:

  • AWE Sector     (members receive passkey of two parts in lowercase; avoid use of spacebar) 

    • AWE Glossary (members are encouraged to add terms with supporting notes and links, especially to support their AWECS interests) 

    • Scores of ever-growing folders of files 

    • Calendar 

  • Monthly PDF format presented in AWE Sector

    • AWE Patents

    • AWE Notes   

  • AWE Quarters  Each quarter, publish a PDF and send it to AWEIA members via a web link set in an e-mail.
    Reports to be included in the quarterly:   

    • President's message  

    • Safety 

    • Airspace governance 

    • Agreements 

    • Installations 

    • Contracts for installations

    • AWE companies

    • Voting results on issues  

    • Link to polls on issues 

    • Technology

      • Traction (ship, boat, yacht, sport, land, special tug works; niche applications as sawing, grinding, launching gliders, drag cleaning nets, plowing soil, scraping land, pulling vehicles, pulling objects, etc.) 

      • GroundGen   (all scales) 

      • FlyGen (all scales) 

      • Fixed offshore  

      • Free-flight (single aircraft, coupled aircraft)

      • Lifted-cable transportation

      • Scales (micro, miniature, toy, sport, residential, nomadic, commercial, utility, national, free-flight)

      • Niche applications of working kites and working aerostats (bird scaring, advertising, lifting hang gliders, lifting water, lifting skydivers, and more)

      • Tether

      • Line handling

      • Generators and motors

      • Controllers

      • Materials

      • Energy storage 

      • Inspection 

      • Systems management 

    • Education  

    • AWECS management 

    • AWECS skilled-worker positions development 

    • Customer service 

    • Committees 

    • Financial  

    • Progress of AWEIA 

    • National AWE organizations 

    • Membership  

    • Accidents, analysis, and lessons

    • Standards 

    • Records 

    • Announcements 

    • AWE community beginnings and endings

    • Links 

    • Job offerings

    • Advertisements 

    • ...other

  • Airborne Wind Energy Companies   This publication lists AWECS companies and AWECS supply-chain companies that are members of AWEIA. This publication is present in HTML format for the public.

  • AWE Journal    Refereed-by-peers articles. Copyright is held by AWEIA and by authors.   AWEIA presents the AWE Journal to members; copies are sold separately to non-members for a low fair price to cover order handling.. Abstract of the articles are presented in public.  Add articles as they are approved. Put this in section in AWE Sector.    Have abstracts in public, but sell copies via PayPal at the abstract public page.

  • UpperWindpower trade organ for the AWECS industry

• Almost daily Notes by members of the AWE community
  Send your note:     Notes@EnergyKiteSystems.net     Notes are grouped by months. 14 months of notes.  Send more on any note's topic for our organizing for all. Thanks for growing the Notes files for all.

• TU Delft Course  There is a question open about Lecture 4: is that complete with one slide? Question is sent to Jeroen Breukels.
   

• Cat I & 2 sUAS AWE Training (Kite Pilot School)
   

• Free Rotor   Colin Bruce Jack
   

• Patents (2009 collection)
  (a coming new project is underway that will vastly advance and extend the growing asset with real time commentary posting available over patents of high interest to the AWE community. Send in your preferences.)

  Incomplete dated list of AWE Patents    PDF document we made: three pages with title, inventor, and direct links to the 37 patents.
   

• Airspace 

• Articles

• Tethers [ Temporarily, this is in subscription folder: Access: AWE Sector] "The magic of a tether is how great tensile force is transmissible between points with minimal mass and cost. " Notice: There are two versions of the article; each version has interesting gems; the two versions are presented side-by-side HERE.

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Some recent added items in the AWE Sector where subscribers post directly on topics. 

• Dr. Kim Jongchul    and his work toward seawind use of wind at 1481 m ASL for parafoiled tracted ships that would generate energy to supplant the world's needs for energy.  See his papers for sure.    M1157  
  Wind power generation with a parawing on ships, a proposal
  J. Kim ^a, C. Park ^b,*
   ^a Korea Aerospace Research Institute, 45 Eoeun-dong, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, Republic of Korea
  ^b Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Department of Aerospace Engineering, 373-1 Guseong-dong, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 305-701 Korea, Republic of Korea
   
• A water analog to a developing AWECS
• Trans-Fusion AWE     ~~ TFAWE
• Discuss David Sarria Jimenez of Spain
  Must see and study.
• EnergyBird    M1051
• Plottner rotor kite
• Tethered rotary kite
• Link resource of kites

• Ever-growing AWE Glossary being built by all interested companies, leaders, authors, inventors, scientists, engineers, kite experts, historians, and more.
  All are urged to send paragraphs and links expanding term footprints in AWE glossary:
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