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July 15, 2020, post by Dave Santos
Germany site for new 6r Plant??
Site Suggestion in Germany for 6r
July 5, 2020, post by  Dave Santos
Latest 3r Variation:  Legacy Power Plant Reuse

Continued 3r variant concept refinement. Earlier steps attached. Note open center to keep array clear of the plant when laid down. Nets to be placed over ground features, to lay lines down safely along narrow corridors.

Schematic stand-in for improved versions later. Key challenges are operational, to raise and lower layers in stages by 3r circle-tow motion and halyards, and to be able to hot-swap any element during operation.
3r fractal
Coal kite hybrid schematic
Fayette dome
Fayette Power Plant reuse
Power plant reuse cell

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July 21, 2020, post by Dave Santos
The multi-r architecture can be classed as a Playsail Kite, which is conjectured to be the first kite, dating back to the Paleolithic Age, when hunter-gathers struggled with skin tents in high wind. The playsail topology is the most conservative and radical kite type.

Hambach pit should never be fully flooded, or the pumped hydro capability is lost and the AWES capability reduced. The AWES should instead keep the lake pumped out enough to accept new hydropower flow, perhaps from a higher shallower nearby reservoir.

If we have a 10GW unit-AWES concept, then ~100 plants is in principle a civilizational ecological game-changer. Creating a starting list of promising sites is timely. Hambach Pit, Columbia River Gorge, North San Francisco Bay, Three Gorges Dam, Isthmus de Tehuantepec, Gibraltar, etc..