Honorary deceased nominees for AWE Founders' Circle
of airborne wind energy industry
(to be confirmed by vote of AWEIA International members at some future moment):

• George Pocock
• John Etzler
• David Hammond Shepard
• Francis M. Rogallo
• Domina C. Jalbert
• David Barish
• Richard Miller
• Paul MacCready who worked at what may have been the first radiative 21st century AWE industry conference years ago (there were meetings for AWE in the 1970s birth where the infant AWE industry went to sleep for a long nap ... with brief cries in the intervening years... and significant dancing and traction branchings)
• Peter R. Payne
• and many others.
  
  Please send nominees to Editor@UpperWindpower.com  or post such nomination on this thread. 

My view and rate of knowing indicates that present discussions on AWECS has yet to uncover all of what our fathers put on the table for our present consideration.

JoeF

Following anticipated safeguards in the manufacturing and recycling spaces,
what might be the solutions for encasing and veiling fibers and strings and cords made of CNTs?

Posted: February 15, 2006
Safety of carbon nanotubes can be dramatically improved 

Also on topic are some leads in the current article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_nanotube#Toxicity

JoeF

Will the NASA oversight review include glases at free-flight AWECS?

Having not towers and not tethers-to-ground within a world-around international system of free-flying tethered two-kite system (TTKS) might be an end-point of some visionaries' AWECS solution where the earth's upperwindpower is mined for the benefit of all people.  

http://energykitesystems.net/0/JoeFaust/AWE/twokitefreeflightAWECS.jpg

Joe provided a very interesting link on BilGatesAndKenCaldeira.See "I have spoken with several people in several companies and they all seem to think different things are the main impediment.

My understanding is that one of the big impediments is tether mass, and there are big tradeoffs with mass of the conductor and insulation versus how high up you can go. It might be that we would require something nearly magical to make such systems really work economically." See also DaveS' post about the danger of nanotubes:so tether mass (and drag) stays a big problem for very high altitude.

See:"The other thing we should recall is that if we were to meet future power demand by this source exclusively, we must intercept more than 1% of natural flows. I think when we get above a 1% change in a natural system, we need to be concerned about large scale unintended consequences. Remember, global warming is basically a 1% problem – 1% warming of our 288 K planetary temperature. (That is one reason why solar is so attractive – with solar we are talking about capturing 0.01 % of the energy that hits the ground.)"

PierreB

http://www.energykitesystems.net/KiteGen/index.html 

Reporters are invited.       

Dec. 2010: "The Stem itself is a product with a wide applicability, but also a good step in the direction of the KiteGen carousel concept.  Our Carousel concept is the still misunderstood answer to most of the concerns that I can often read;"   Massimo                     SomeImageLeads 

A first rough very incomplete timeline file has been initiated.

Each AWECS team could give their own Timeline to this Timeline cause. 
And send additions and correction!      Who on your team is caring for such matter?

Be so invited to have someone on your team chronicle all progress and history of your efforts and experience. A copy of your timeline and updates are welcome to be posted in this forum and copy sent to Editor@UpperWindpower.com     

Just linked:    

Extract from http://seekerblog.com/archives/20100311/ken-caldeira-and-bill-gates-on-\ (Joe provided this link some days ago).What is your opinion about it:

"The other thing we should recall is that if we were to meet future power demand by this source exclusively, we must intercept more than 1% of natural flows. I think when we get above a 1% change in a natural system, we need to be concerned about large scale unintended consequences. Remember, global warming is basically a 1% problem – 1% warming of our 288 K planetary temperature. (That is one reason why solar is so attractive – with solar we are talking about capturing 0.01 % of the energy that hits the ground.)"?

PierreB

"The name "KiteGen" has been coined at Politecnico di Torino, well before the foundation of KiteGen Research s.r.l., and it has been the name of the first research project, funded by Regione Piemonte and coordinated by Politecnico di Torino, aimed to investigate high-altitude wind energy using power kites."  Note in 2010 in the following linked final thesis of 2009.

Clipped quote from:  Lorenzo Fagiano in his Ph.D. thesis, which see.  9 Mb, PDF document.

He decided to face the possible confusion by using instead of KiteGen the term HAWE for high altitude wind energy.

Title: Control of Tethered Airfoils for High–AltitudeWind Energy Generation

Six modes of AWE synergy

1. Forum     We are 80 formally registered in a public discussion program with rapid AWE development as an aim (RAD).  
   
2. KiteEnergy        This is a private list used for very occasional e-mails that are short and sent using blind addresses.   Many of these persons choose to stay off of certain other lists as they grow their AWE interest.
   
3. Founders' Circle ... closes midnight PST on December 31, 2010.  Let me know the name of anyone who seems to be part of the synergy that is founding the AWE industry internationally. Send team names to Editor@UpperWindpower.com   At the moment we are over 400 persons; contact and tag information will not be adjacent to the publication. Think stone wall with etched names for the people of year 7000 to stumble upon as they wonder about roots of the year 2011 AWE industry.    At the moment, this circle holds just over 400 persons
   
4. Who's Who in AWE International?         (WWAWE)
         http://www.energykitesystems.net/WhoAWE/nominate.html   This tool may be used to enter historical or current information on those who have inputs to the growth AWECS. Recognition will be given by AWEIA International.      The e-book WWAWE will be published by UpperWindpower.   Nominating persons will not be disclosed.   Nominate someone, pehaps yourself!  
   
5. Contacts:   We each have our private contact list.  These contacts help us  forward research and development of AWECS.
   
6. Yet to gather persons:    AWE industry will have a footprint in nearly every village and city on earth to tap wind for a bit energy by use of tethered aviation technology at some scale from tiny to huge. 

JoeF

Recherche avancée."Kitegen" seems to be available.It is possible laws for other countries are identical.According to international rules (OMPI) under right of priority,after a first application (probably in Italia) you have a delay of 6 months to make applications for other countries without possible oppositions.

Pierre Benhaïem 

No tether to ground:   
The FF-AWECS with two HTA kites  at ends of one tether is one family of tethered aviaiton; see former posts. Here we punctuate Wayne's differential LTA kites on one tether for FF-AWECS:

2010 May: "And my personal life-time's ambition is to make a craft that could fly anywhere by the difference in the velocities in the air at low and high altitudes. The wings could be made to be neutrally buoyant to where one could float at 5000 feet say and the other at 2000 feet."  ~~Wayne German.  Source.    

Free-Flight AWE method here above using two LTA kites on one tether; besides travel, energy excess may be mined turning the flying; the energy could be used in the system for living, entertainment, manufacturing, or power beamed to other aircraft or ground receptors.  This seems to be quite different from the R. Buckminster  simply floating cities.    Look forward to ever-up FF-AWECS being also permanent homes in the sky for some people.  Add solar-energy, swimming pools, aloft airport on the system, ...    No earthquakes felt, no floods, no aloft forest fires, ...            ~~JoeF

Wayne would operate the two aircraft at the opposing ends of the free-flight tether so as to sky-sail with tacking techniques; as needed the buoyancy of either kytoon would be adjusted during the driving sailing actions; he would sail at any time to any direction to any place on earth or other planet having atmosphere. Tethered aviation without fossil fuel!  Move as many people or as much material as desired to all points earth or sea.

Wayne's friend has this patent on a slightly different matter where one of the kites is actually a water kite, that is, the hull of the water boat as kite, which click through

And Malcolm Phillips invested further to instruct: (click through image):

The colorful gift wrapping did not give a clue to what was inside the box.
Opening the box came after reading the top note, which read:

"You have been wanting to get outside to do some exercise; and you have a wish
to charge all the batteries around the house. So, I found this item in AWE SuperStore
for you!  You will be able to do some great exercise and fresh air while cooperating
with the wind. You and the wind will charge the many batteries."

Opening the box, here is what was found:
A sand anchor and a platform holding a Sprag clutch shafted to a generator; there was an electronic controller, a charger, and a place to plug in the rechargeable batteries. And a kite with its tether.

And some instrucitons: "Have the tether be set through the clutch as indicated in the diagram; launch the kite; once the kite is stable, sit on the platform and begin the fore and aft motion as pictured. You will be pulling in the kite  and driving the clutch; then you will let the wind pull the line through the clutch even while you resist some; back and forth, back and forth. You will be charging the batteries during the pull stroke; and the wind will be charging the batteries during the let-out stronke. Enjoy. Burn calories. Feel great. Reach better fitness. Reduce your electric bill. Be part of the reductionof fossil fuel use. Let the whole family do the same with this exercise-charging system."

 Windlift Testing 3  
Testing of the Windlift Model 8 system performed on December 23, 2010 in Engelhard, North Carolina. The average windspeed during the test was 10 m/s (at 10 m height).

It seems that the recovering phase is about 10 s and the power phase is 25 s.
If one listens, the sound seems that the average sound is higher during recovering phase.
It is also possible during recovering phase that the sound of the motor is high,
because of its speed of spinning; if the torque is low, then the expense energy can be lower.

What is your analysis of this recent test Joe Faust, Dave Santos, Dave Lang, Doug Selsam, Dimitri?

PierreB

Rough draft:

•  K1  Kiting giving birth to flight from early ages to Wright Brothers' kiting.
   
• K2  Jalbert, Allison, Wanner, Rogallo, Barish, Paresev, towed manned kiting,  traction sports, kiting festivals
   
• K3  The space race Sputnik-(1957)-charged introduced a synergy that resulted in increased manned kiting activity by NASA and associated companies and individuals, including hgh-speed moving moorings of tethered lifting bodies. This brought in a run of patents over the Wanner wing, Rogallo wing, Barish sailwing, Jalbert parafoil, and many versions of  what was then termed paraglider which wrapped flexible sail over frames (unlike the later use of the term paraglider). The free=flight governable parachutes increased in importance. The severe kiting in the Paresev program included release-for-glide weight-shift control (move payload mass relative to attitude of wing). Such kiting gave impetus to expanding uses of large kites, both with moving moorings and free-flight kites. Children of such investments and experience may be seen in the surge of hang gliding, traction-kiting sports, the 1970s AWECS bump, and even much of 2000s professional AWECS race. It may be said that a huge new golden age of kiting K2 was birthed by the communications of Domina C. Jalbert and Francis M. Rogallo moved along by political pressures and competitions punctuated with the need for freedom expressed in recreational manned kiting found in Igor Bensen, aqua-kiting, hang gliding, and gliding sky-diving. It is suspected that K2 will blossom to be a diamond Age of Tethered Aviation that will be perhaps a deserving winner of the K3 name; founders of K3 will be viewable in part in the AWEIA international's coming Founder's Circle collection of over 400 persons,  certainly less than the full community that will expand to tens of thousands.    The neat thing is that K1 and K2 remain alive and well even while K3 is being nursed by centers in  Belgium, Ireland, England, Netherlands, Russia, China, USA, Nigeria, Germany, France, Mexico, Italy, Spain, Japan, Korea,  and more ...

Application in process:

Giancarlo Zanetti

http://energykitesystems.net/Zanetti/WO2010015720A2.pdf

Inventor/Applicant: Zanetti, Giancarlo
Priority data: 8 August 2008.
International filing date: 7 August 2009.
International Applicaiton Number: PCT/EP2009/060311

My notes:
Specialized pumping or Yo-yo method ...   "Active" phase and costing or "passive" phase.  Study has not been done to find what novelty the application might hold.  Others are welcome to discuss Zanetti's application.

My tip for the application was a link in an article:  NASA studies issues for very high altitude wind power generation and the latest on Kitegen's 3 MW prototype    Monday, December 20, 2010 12:23  where the author missed the opportunity to lead readers to the AWECS community generally. TWIND and KiteGen and NASA  received some play.   http://www.twind.eu/en/basis.php  has art that seems repeatly in part in the subject application.   Yes, there is a tight association with TWIND on the applicaiton.  So, the team is consideration several versions of Yo-yo methods.     

Related:
http://www.zanettistudio.com/business/site/index.php 

http://www.zanettistudio.com/business/site/index.php?page=contatti

JoeF

A free flying balloon moves with the flow, except when the balloon is rising for falling when not neutrally  buoyant.  In the fully neutral mode, wind turbines won't develop torque. However, during the rise and fall mode, a net wind occurs and wind turbines could generate some electricity. If the balloon was interacting chemically, photochemically, or photo-voltaically in a manner to cause buoyancy rise and fall alternatively, then perhaps the apparent wind could be used in some onboard AWECS.      Why this note?  Just came across a visionary: Graham Dorrington of the University of London in a short post: Up, Up, and Away: Exploring Titan by Balloon .    

http://www.eng.qmul.ac.uk/staff/staff.php?g.dorrington

Not sure if the note on onboard wind turbines respected the primary neutral zone of no effect for wind turbines.     Am I missing something?  Is he?  Or what?

Towers cornering private property set up shield zone.  Responsibility to keep towers with navigation hazard lights, etc. persist.    Consider flying a kite while enjoying Singapore's SkyPark:

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/AirborneWindEnergy/links/Skypark_001293558585/

Every aircraft takes up  airspace while flying.   The total volume of airspace is time based; first here, then there, then there, then there; the total flight might be computed as hazard volume multiplied by the time of flight. VxT.      An AWECS does not travel far, if ground tethered sort, but it persists in time. We can be good neighbors; we all just need to know where one is Now.   Pay no excise tax; every user of airspace is costing others some immediate airspace. Passengers from LAX to London are using elemental airspace volume times the distance traveled; the VT is large.     The moving aircraft from LAX to London takes careful governance and watch. The relatively static AWECS  will cost less governance inasmuch as one can know that its block of airspace is THERE; and that the THERE does not move all that much.    Energy makers or passengers ...we will all be reaching for common benefits. The AWECS will not be sitting in the inverted airport wedding cakes, but off to the side.

JoeF 

http://www.energykitesystems.net/AWECommunityIntroVideos.html#tyPJ

#234 vid

JoeF