Topic: Compare AWES side-by-side using a complex matrix?
  • What could be the details of a complex matrix that might compare two or more AWES?  Purpose-specified categories?  AWES dedicated to making electricity at may arrive to serve at a certain scale, say utility scale. Would system mass be a  means to discern competitors?  E.g. contestants of mass 2000 pounds or less might compete directly against one another.  Could a matrix be so designed to let fair competition occur between a 10-pound AWES and a 10 000-pound AWES?   Maybe have the AWES competitors operate for a week near each other.  Sensors, meters, records, analysts, judges, ... ?   Cost of the kitricity produced?  Include the machine, the human input,

  • What is already available to test machines?   
  • teTra wins Disruptor Award at GoFly Final Fly-Off  
  • Examine man-powered aircraft events as teams aimed to win various prizes.
  • Notice how aircraft companies have competed to win contracts.
  • Notice the robot contests.
  • Robotics Alliance Project    
  •  wiki/History_of_human-powered_aircraft   
  • firms/Competitors/Competitors-Lockheed-Martin.html   

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