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Founded in 2008 by JoeBen Bevirt    

2011:  Santa Cruz High grad pitches business plan to Davenport: JoeBen Bevirt wants to buy shuttered Cemex plant for windmill manufacturing

2010:

• Joby Energy from Bonny Doon CA to South Point HI

• Entrepreneur Wants People To Commute By Electric Plane, Jetson Style

[ ] What is happening with the quarterly newsletter after Q3od2010?

• http://newsletter.jobyenergy.com/public/q3_2010/img/autonomous_flight.jpg

• Mercury 5  in 2010: http://suasnews.wpcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Mercury-5-300x159.jpg

• Interview (some biography)

• DDWFTTW sponsor along with Google.

• Joby Energy, Inc.

• Chairing AWEC

• News article: http://www.theengineer.co.uk/news/kite-turbines-generate-more-power/1002903.article 

• His tweets

• "flying windmills"   Flexible Thinking  By Brian Andrew   in Stanford Magazine

• Erik Vance writes about   High Hopes

• JoeBen Bevirt non-AWE patent applications

• Predicts 2012 or 2014

• Thomas Grimley

• "Joby & Makani's flygen concepts require camber or rotation reversing for high turbine efficiency as they do both thrust & power extraction without reversing airflow.

  Sky WindPower's concept won't have to camber or rotation reverse, merely change from generation to motoring blade pitch setting (from neg to pos pitch), as its turbines reverse airflow.     ds "  M495

•  Archan Padmanabhan, speaker at conference
• San Francisco Chronicle:  Paraphrased:   Joby Energy may launch AWECS from mountaintops.

   

The company seems highly focused on jet stream utilization AWE, but is morphing stance to consider lower-altitude AWECS.

Commentary:

"Joby Energy envisions flying AWE from mountaintops.
 San Francisco Chronicle

• "Bevirt's Joby Energy company is now working on generating wind energy using giant kites on mountaintops and a sporty electric aircraft with several propellers that hovers like a helicopter." Source. 

• Commentary so far:

  • The "propellers" may be powered and then pitch changed for autorotation for generating electricity, I suppose.   JpF
     

  • GPS is being preferred by Joby for positional data (but RADAR is better AWE CoopIP) from Tweet-feed.     ds
    
    Disambiguation: Prior Terrain Enabled Wind Power (TEWP) usage preferred over later Terrain Enhanced Wind Power. Proposing Terrain Enhanced Wind Resource (TEWR) to replace confusing TEWP usage." ds   Discussion is open: Perhaps there some distinctions to be made, so assets won't be lost.   See M1182

  • Wikipedia entry at High altitude wind power:

    • 2010 March 1-3: Three HAWP companies had booths at ARPA-E Technology Showcase, Gaylord Convention Center, Washington, DC. Investment and showcasing by HAWP entities: Joby Energy, Sky Windpower, Makani Power directed visitors to each other's booths.
      
      2010 March 6. Eight airborne wind energy technology entity leaders in USA held a telephone conference and decided without objection to propose a modification to bill HR 3165[45]; the primary line-item proposed modification entered to a congressional member was the inclusion of "airborne wind energy technology."