Anchors
to kite-energy systems, AWES, kite systems

We note that "kite" as "tether-coupled wings" has "anchors" being  "wings" resisting or reacting to wings in an opposing wing set. Anchors may seem fixed to some reference frame or moving in other reference frames. Free-falling anchors are seen in kite hang gliders, kite paragliders, fugitive kites, etc.   Moving anchors are seen in towing vehicles or towed vehicles, say kited freighter ships or kiteboarders.  The tension in a kite's tethers arrive from opposing forces; the most typical ancient scene is a hand resisting the pull of a wing that is converting the wind's energy to mechanical energy; the critical player sets: W1,T,W2  where W1 is the anchor set of wings, T is the tether set, and W2 is the other wing set.

Discussion place:  AirborneWindEnergy/conversations/messages/11667

• The claw tie-down   www.claw.com
• kite anchors, kite mooring
• Gambions         airbornewindenergy10629
• Water bags
• Sand anchors
• Soil anchors, soil kites, soil plows, soil-set bags
• Water drogue anchors
• Free-flight anchors
• Opposing wing as anchor  FF-AWE
• Cluster anchoring
• Spread anchors
• Permanent anchors
• Temporary anchors
• Testing
• Certification
• Engineering
• Soil engineering
• Moving anchors
• Human body as kite anchor (moving, fixed, free-flight)
• Soil kites as anchors to kite systems
• Water kites or paravanes as anchors to kite systems
• Wings as anchors to kite systems
• Dogstaking http://kitelife.com/forum/topic/4251-more-rev-dogstake/
  • http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/AirborneWindEnergy/conversations/topics/10140
  • Consider safety secondary anchors
  • Consider crossing lines to get back to normal control.
• Ganged minor anchors for forming a main anchoring
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