Topic
Blocking the Sun's Light by Kite
Shading, shadows, views blocked, ...
  • Shade                   See also topic:  Shade
  • Labor
  • Plants
  • Animals
  • People
  • Manufacturing
  • Evaporation
  • Thermal-generation systems
  • Multiple-use systems
  • Electricity generation
    • Wing PV surfaces
    • Shade alternation for thermal effects
    • Pumping. Groundgen
  • Lower air conditioning energy expenditures
  • ?
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March 7, 2020, post by Joe Faust
AWES incidental shadows?

A machine in the air for days and more will on average block sunlight and moolight. The shadowing might be a core intentional result or an incidental result. My note here concerns incidental shadows cast by AWES of the energy kite systems types that intend to be flying consistently in one land area. Will the incidental shadows injure neighbors or animals?  Will the shadows be at a frequency that triggers brain problems, perhaps epileptic seizures?   wiki/Photosensitive_epilepsy   Will the shadow patterns bother the peace of residential neighbors or disturb commercial laborers?   Will animals be disturbed?
March 7, 2020, post by Joe Faust
Deliberate shading by AWES?

You bring in the “shade” activity sector. Good on you, Pierre. Yes, I have looked at shade from AWE machines and continue to care about that activity sector; such is not to promote that sector above or below other activity sectors. But, as you know and mention, shadows can become important for many reasons, but may be overlooked and neglected in other circumstances.

In the same vein, during the day, some AWES patents care about using wing surfaces for converting solar energy to electricity; note that the AWES lift the surfaces that are involved in such PV technology. Mention has been made of lifting surface above clouds to get better insolation. Similar PV on towered wind turbine blades have been mentioned in the literature.

Thanks, Pierre, for composing some possible shade stats. Discerning what to measure concerning the shading activity sector is what you have furthered; but surely we are not done with discerning just what to measure about AWE shading activity. Shade time or duration? Frequency and its possible health effects of on-off cycling. Benefits of shade installations from AWES, Incidentality? Labor productivity changes from shading service? Scaring of pests? As you note: agriculture benefits? Size and dependability? Some neighbors to some AWES may get very disturbed with unwelcomed shade cycling; stealing their sunlight, disturbing their pets, disturbing their peace, changing the status quo of the area’s lighting patterns, Not all neighbors will accept AWES shading in good spirits, I guess.

So, it looks like there could be two general shade activity sectors: 1. Incidental shade from most AWES during some of their operation times. 2. Deliberate shading wanted by customers or consumers. Data reporting concerning both sectors could become part of the Per-Year AWE-Sector Activity Shares reporting.