On Sun Jul 7, 2013 2:07 pm
dobosg 001 wrote.
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I have answered your above letter on
Mon, 08 Jul 2013 21:07:23 +0200
but it seems that it has been lost somewhere. In this letter, I
asked for your kind help because I had a vague foreboding that
there is some history that everyone knows but I don't, and I asked
you not to leave me in the dark.
As I see, since my first letter (#9504) regarding the AWEC2013
conference something happened. Since then, there are 23 letters
dealing with or connected to the conference, while before my letter
I did not find any. This letters confirm my foreboding, and gives
me some insight into the antecedents of them.
By my eyes several old wrongs and clashes can be seen, and it is of
course about business and money. It is a dangerous situation for me,
since the "fighters" usually don't like the unexposed newcomers.
But I would like to emphasize that I came to find friends and
helpers in this community. And I am going to attend the conference
because of the same reasons.
Therefore I would like to repeat my original invitation:
If any of you intends to attend the event, I would much
appreciate meeting you there. I ask you to send me an email about
it.
Let us continue with your letter above.
I have to say that I did not find it surprising that some well known
firms mentioned by you engaged in harnessing high altitude wind
energy, are not on the lists of the consortium organizing that
event. There are so many firms dealing with high altitude winds,
that it would be a simple task to recite further 10-20 firms who are
also not on the list.
Obviously, everybody misses only his own
friends, researche-fellows, business partners. To tell the
truth, it did not come in my mind, that it could be a problem. It
was enough for me seeing some well known names. E.g. Sky WindPower
Corporation (just this one to mention), being one of the firms
making the first successful experiments with autogiro-like energy
harvesting devices.This firm is also a member of the corporation
that organises the conference. People such as Professor Roberts and
Professor Caldeira, whose names have become “classical” by now,
having achieved this success with autogiro.
(And of cource a considerable list of other contributors. I beg
their pardon because not to mention their names,) The latter being
the author (together with Christina Archer) of the first
comprehensive and systematic research on high altitude winds. This
reevaluation of the data is a standard of such works even today.
(see: Global Assessment of High-Altitude Wind Power. Cristina L.
Archer, and Ken Caldeira, Energies 2009, 2, 307-319;
doi:10.3390/en20200307)
By the way, in my correspondence with Christina Archer we agreed
that though the data published in their paper are very useful for
the ongoing research on harnessing energy of high altitude winds,
the resolution of the primary data is not sufficient for the purpose
of extracting wind-shear data for evaluating the possibility of
Dynamic Soaring.
Well, Christina Archer will hold the “topic leading speech” of “Wind
& Weather”at the conference. I would like to hear her, and to
speak with her. The simplest way to do so is to attend this
conference. (By the way, I have a meeting there with Mac Brown, Vice
President of Sky WindPower. ) These antedecents were enough
garantie for me that the conference will be professional, and at the
same time a meeting of good fellows.
It was a great disappointment for me that by your opinion things are
not as nice as I have thought it, based on my own antecedents. Not
being the shareholder of AWEC Corporation, I can't answer your
question why are missing several firms engaged in
high-altitude-wind-technology and highly appreciated by you, from
the lists of AWEC Corporation. Possibly, you could ask these firms
themselves. Of course,“while there” I will do my best to find out
the answer to your question, and to try to help solving the
problems which are hindering the possible cooperation between you
and AWEC. But I do not need to be there for that, I could just ask
Guido Luetsch by email or by calling him on the phone. (Guido has
holidays until 22 Juli.) By the way, anybody could do so. But what
kind of answers can you imagin or ratheer accept, if everybody has
the right to follow his own business-interest?
Maybe, I know how to solve these problems, if they are not yet
solved. See my next mail!
Best regards, Gábor
