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Comparing AWES

Evaluate and then compare ...

  • How would one go about comparing one AWES with another AWES?
  •  Testing sites
  • Contests (rules, measuring, third-party neutrality, ...), fly-offs, competitions,
  • Analysis
  • Historical records
  • What parameters will be measured?
  • Validating the values of parameters
  • Third-party analysis
  • Manufacturer's analysis
  • Accountant's perspective
  • Legal perspective
  • Engineering perspective
  • ?
Collecting potential parameters that may concern various AWES analysts
[ ] Yet: mine the white papers for the parameters that have been chosen by investigators.
  • ROI              Return on Investment
  • EROI            Energy returned on energy invested
  • LCOP, LEC      Cost of electricity by source
  • power-to-capital-cost
  • AirborneWindEnergy/message/8188      Parametric optimisation of kite structures
  • Mass per delivered-to-grid energy
  • Investment expenditures in the year
  • Operations and maintenance expenditures in the year
  • Fuel expenditures in the year
  • Electricity generation in the year
  • Discount rate
  • Life of the system
  • Carbon footprint for the entire life of an AWES
  • Carbon dioxide savings per year for the installation
  • Cost of electricity
  • Power per kg
  • Capacity factor
  • Nameplate capacity
  • Parameters in the eye of AWE investors
  • Site costs
  • Wind resource for the particular site
  • Intermittency of resource for the site of the AWES installation      Intermittent power source
  • Environmental impacts on flora, fauna, land, noise, vision, climate, weather, downwind processes,
  • Time between failures
  • Elapsed time for installing AWES at site
  • Coefficient of performance
  • Efficiency
  • Drag
  • Lift
  • Groundgen or flygen or hybridgen?
  • Tether parameters
  • Site: onshore, offshore, mixed shore, free-flight with base or not
  • Ground-crew requirements
  • Autonomy
  • autonomous survivability
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