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What to Lift by Kite Systems

Each type of object lifted may involve alternative lifting protocols and modifications to the kite system.
Each lifting scenario invites plans and specification, safety-critical analysis, economical analysis, trial reports, tips, projects, experiments, comparison with other means of lifting the objects involved.
What are the merits of a particular lifting project involving kite systems?

Lift items and then drop them
Lift platforms, living quarters, aircraft
Lift water to let out for fire fighting or wetting plants or people.
Lift seeds for dropping into welcoming soil.
Lift large bulky items from one place and let the item down in another place.
Lift water to cool the water; bring the water back down for use.
Lift hang gliders as a launch method.
- Lift the hang glider as the kite wing itself.
- Lift hang glider up into an already-flying kite system.
Lift landing platforms for receiving the landing of aircraft aloft.
Lift AWES wing sets into higher wind levels
Lift cameras for aerial photography.
Lift a mass for dropping to crush itself or to crush other items.
Lift pole ends and tower ends.
Lift lumber for moving the lumber from one place to another.
Lift animals out of ravines.
Lift harvested crops from one place and let the load ride the main tether back to a processing center.
Lift batteries to be charged aloft by wind or solar or both; then let the batteries back down for use.
Lift people for view pleasure.
Lift observers.
Lift food to keep the food cool in cooler upper airs.
Lift the top end of a recreational climbing rope.
Lift large catch nets
Lift first line across ravines, rivers, valleys, buildings, etc. in bridge-building efforts
Lift communications devices
Lift hoses and clothes to dry
Lift wicks to moisten the air
Lift screens for backdrops and projection
Lift extrusion devices for long fall cooling, drying and stretching of extruded material
Lift anything a crane lifts, from container ships out in the bay to dock
Lift bags of deep water through mangles to pressurise the bags and power turbines
Lift hulls to offset drag
Lift ocean sediment to use as fertiliser
Lift dredged crud from the ocean floor for clean disposal.
Lift invertedly in tidal streams:
- Pulling bags of air down...
Lift laterally in waters to
- spread fishing nets
Lift gifts and prizes to be let fall for children to gather.
Lift leaflets to be dropped for communicating guides during emergencies.
Lift seedlings to be dropped as arrows for self-planting.
Lift passengers and carry them to destinations.
Lift loudspeakers.
Lift control units.
Lift mirrors.
Lift solar-energy collectors.
Lift UV LEDs for crop lighting at night
Lift prisoners
Lift aerosol medicines for dispersal
Lift surveillance devices
Lift the back of bankers pants over their heads for thorough wedgying
Lift kite line laundry.
Lift WECS.
Lift water divers.
Lift meshes of LEDs to night illuminate broad fields.
Lift signs.
Lift banners.
Lift lenses.
Lift boats out of the water.
Lift people out of the water.
Lift fish caught.
Lift "letting-go" notes.
Lift prayers
Lift hired messages and advertisements.
Lift posters of mathematics theorems for students to view and study.
Lift sand for placement at a new position on the beach.
Lift beams being used for construction of buildings.
Lift self.
- Lift self during kiteboarding.
Lift a retail store into the skies.
Lift scientific instruments
Lift animals
Lift birds for release
Lift gliders of toy scale for release for fun or design testing.
Lift people to the top of aerial zip lines.
Lift pilots during free-flight gliding in the kite hang gliders of canopy sort and airframed sort.
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