Tether energy supply system
Patent US20110180667 - Tether energy supply system

			Patent US20110180667 - Tether energy supply system A tether continuous energy supply system for an unmanned aerial vehicle comprising: a ground station, a ground station energy system, a spool coupled ...
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Publication number	US7119665 B2
Publication type	Grant
Application number	US 10/983,743
Publication date	Oct 10, 2006
Filing date	Nov 9, 2004
Priority date	Nov 9, 2004
Fee status	Lapsed
Also published as	Patent US20060097853 - Sound generator for a kite Patent US20060097853 - Sound generator for a kite A sound generator including a mounting clip for attachment to a kite frame. A support arm is secured to, and projects from, the mounting clip. The support ar... View on www.google.com Preview by Yahoo
Inventors	Abdallah Joe Albert
Original Assignee	Abdallah Joe Albert
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Buoyancy energy storage and energy generation system
Patent US20100107627 - Buoyancy energy storage and energy generation system

			Patent US20100107627 - Buoyancy energy storage a... An energy generation and storage system that uses a buoyant balloon suspended in a fluid and connected by a tether to a reel. The tether is taut and keeps the ballo...
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THE USE OF STATE-OF-THE-ART KITES FOR

PROFILING THE LOWER ATMOSPHERE       [is a PDF file]

BEN B. BALSLEY, MICHAEL L. JENSEN and ROD G. FREHLICH
Cooperative Institute for Research in the Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado,
Boulder, CO 80309, U.S.A.
(Received in final form 5 January, 1998)

Notice the WindTRAM that carries payload up and down the tether.

Good photos in the article.   Page count: 25.

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~ JoeF

http://books.google.com/books?id=FecqAQAAIAAJ&dq=tether%20balloon%20reel&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false

by

Alden P. Colvocoresses

Circa 1972 f

Inch-Worm Kited Transportation, Even Directly Into The Wind (IWKT)
Contact kPower, Inc. for commercial application of IWKT: Licencse: CC+ Technology License, kPower, Inc., ~ Joe Faust

This topic thread is dedicated to the disclosure and development (D&D) of IWKT

in many of its embodiments.

We already have tacking transportation of land vehicles and water hulls. And we have such as KitVes where kite energy is stored and used to drive electric boats into any direction. Well IWKT belongs to such broad family but gives special focus to a method that may have niche applications, but is just aside of the tacking and water KitVes.   Let's take a look at IWKT.

Did you get to know inch worms?  Happy fellas and gals, they seem to be; they inch along and reach and reach and reach. They use some energy to move forward. But notice that they use some of the energy to store mass at altitude; they convert some energy into potential energy to be used at later moments. The posture that has the high arch is a stored-energy phase. From that stored-energy phase they open up the head, that is, they take the brakes off the head's hold of the earth and let the potential energy of the high mass in arch to drop the mass, open the arch and move the head and mid section forward in the direction it wants to go. Fun.

Well, IWKT, has a ground vehicle as anchor to a kite system. Set the  brakes on the ground vehicle. Use the kite system AWES to store up energy in the ground-vehicle's battery during the braked parked phase. Once adequate energy is stored in the ground vehicle, then feather the kite-system wing (or bring wings down), take off the brakes, turn on the go-motor and drive directly into the wind or in any direction wanted or do other good works. Once the energy is used, then set the brakes and repeat the cycle. Go, go, go, go, go in IWKT fashion and give thanks to inch worms.

Many embodiments of IWKT will come to mind for those skilled in the arts. And descriptions of those embodiments of IWKT are invited to be posted, discussed, developed, and disclosed fully in this topic thread.  Gain special application rights for inventive applications of IWKT by disclosing novel applications, especially those that improve the lives of people and animals and plants on earth. Also, perform IWKT works on planets beyond earth.  Other works than "transportation" are implied in IWKT; use the stored energy for other works; but the novel IWKT aspect may most reside in the ground movement cycling.  The water-hull cousin seems to be covered by KitVes, in part.  And we have before covered lightly trans-ocean cyclic travel by kite where water parachutes are used as anchors while the air kite works to gain potential energy in various ways followed by feathering or depowering and gathering the water chute while the potential energy is used for flight progress gliding and soaring; such done in cycles can also have travel around the world by kite system. Again, these are aside of the tacking methods.

~ JoeF

Grab the big wind energy, store it, and then travel when the wind is in calm.

Notice in the following video how their is a waiting for the big-energy insect;

then the system grabs the energy packet. Then the system uses the energy

later to do good works:

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~ JoeF, in support of the IWKT topic, an AWES method.

We join the near-topic former topic thread:

https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/AirborneWindEnergy/conversations/messages/16295

From  http://www.google.com/makani/ "Over the first five years of development, and thousands of hours of field testing, the energy kite evolved from a fabric kite powering a generator on the ground to a high-performance kite with on-board power  "

Trying to know the reasons of evolutions  towards some method for teams.

PierreB

http://flygenkite.com 

* Tea-timers may one day chalk up a trophy note in their portfolio:

"I have had a High-Tea with my friend while aloft in a kite!"

It may be  important to appreciate that a simple kite system is a first-order powered aircraft; the wing set of the kite system is powered by the energy of the wind. A wing set of a kite system can use the energy of the wind to stay aloft, to increase or decrease the tension in the involved kite part: the tether set, to increase or decrease the forces in the involved kite-system part: the anchor set. Energy for others may be formatted for good works in the wing set, in the tether set, and in the anchor set.

The choice to put generators and motors aloft will have many reasons for niche uses. SkySails has explored an aloft tether-embedded reaction generator to make electricity for aloft driving of electrical control servos for their towing purposes. Makani and Altaeros and PierreB and Tracy and others have been exploring aloft generators to match constrained purposes. All work to fulfill some defined purpose.  When purposes expand, then flygens may or may not supply resolution.  Makani adds cost phase of power helicoptering for launching and landing; just how much that constrains final purpose space will tell in time or in analysis; the choice won't fit all purposes. Bang for buck relative to purpose will be story yet to unfold.

~ JoeF

Human-powered aircraft kiting (HPAK)

     This topic thread invites focus on human-powered kiting, an aircraft sector. The HPAK has many species; all are welcome herein. Species identification will increase and sharpened definitions will evolve in time. At first there may be fuzzy edges beckoning improved category definitions. Purposes will vary for each type of HPAK.

First, classic HPA is what might come to mind when even using the phrase "human-powered aircraft," but that won't suffice for this HPAK topic.  Of course, the classic HPA with pilot onboard could fly via tether towing in various ways where the tension of the towing line is provided by human power; and such tweak will be forming part of this topic; there are several schemes to convert classic HPA to HPAK arrangements.

Second, be ready to have the human in HPAK to be ground-based or aloft-based (either mid-tether-based or wing-based). 

Third, be open to have some HPAK be energy conversion systems for making electricity as well as doing other good works.

The HPAK has human inputting energy to the kite system to aid or effect flight for the system; the flight will be fully free-flying or partly flying and partly not flying; but with part less-than-whole flying, the system still is an aircraft system.  

So, to start:   ==========================================

Perhaps the most popular classic simple recreational kiting where a human uses muscles to resist the wing set by hand holding a kite-system's string seems top be a HPAK.  We go from that to the human facing the task of flying in a lull or in a calm; the human powers through the challenge by one of several methods: pull in the line on a reel or tug-pump the line for pumping energy to the wing or running in some direction to give apparent wind to the wing set.  Each type just mentioned may be explored carefully; consider safety, limits, purposes. Much to explore. Even explore have an aloft electric wind turbine in the wing set; have the human run in calm and end up generating electricity aloft for various uses. Etc. Have fun.  [In no wind use kPower's KiteSat to charge a cell phone aloft using HPAK play.]

Much yet to go toward HPAK.

~ JoeF

I favored stationary AWES vs  figure-eight or loop regarding stability, but it is not so obvious. For example a flowform and almost stationary kites need a tail or another device for stability. It is not the same for kites flying fast (for now I put off the question of passive or/and active control).

PierreB

So, it can be stated:

Japan's richest man just invested $7,000,000.00

in an AWES entity.

Comparison testing against Pierre's Flygen has not yet been made by me

with a kite's wing stabilized by a tail which tail is a set of blades driving an aloft electric generator; let the mother wing drive lift for the system; let the productive tail drive the generator and give wide wind-range for the complex. Tail Power!

~ JoeF

At perhaps line conspicuity stations have wind reading data (direction, speed, temperature, humidity, rates of change, ... ) sent to smarts' center for decisioning.

~ JoeF

I have a stability issue with the standard cheap parafoil lifting kites, PL9M I have been testing. They seem to have a preference for hanging on the left hand side of the wind window. Yesterday in very strong winds, the line was settled at around 10 degree up from the ground.

Instead of retying the bridle every time...
Is there a standard way to improve left right balance?

Will a weighted drogue tied to the 3 points between the trailing edge corners and bridle point help...?  It would pull more on the RHS trailing edge if the kite leans to the LHS... Does this steer a standard parafoil lifter correctly?

Would the deformation of a sliding back line weight be more appropriate than the fixed weight?

Aiming to find out soon with testing.
Cc4.0 NC BY SA...

A standard simple line &  weight balance adapter for training lift parafoils with respect to gravity would make life much easier.

Ron Zohar

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