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History of low or high altitude AWE
meetings, seminars, conferences with any AWE scale
in focus (cross-group meetings, open seminars, workgroups, and conferences
of two or more people looking at mining the potential of winds by airborne
devices for grinding, travel, pumping, electrical generation, etc.
Note: Mining by AWE to get mechanical tug of boats, etc. is equal to
mining the winds for pumping, grinding, making electricity, etc. )
Send historical notes regarding history of AWE conferences to
Notes@EnergyKiteSystems.net
Questions:
Q1. In late 1970s were there any meetings of AWE players?
In the 1970s many inventors were producing experiments and patents.
Proposals were made to companies, investors, and government. Facts of such
meetings are invited.
Q2. Will the 2010 Drachen Foundation planning be affected by the
HAWP 2010 ????
Q3. What conferencing occurred and will occur in Europe, Russia,
China, Australia, Japan, etc.?
Q4. Did Etzler hold a conference before or after his cornerstone
essay?
“We might extend the application of [wind] power to the
heights of the clouds,
by means of kites.” ~utopian technologist John Etzler,
1833
Q5. David H. Shepard conferenced with others and also
with government on HAWP AWE. Full record of his conferencing
would be neat. There is a video of his presenting at a dinner. But what
about the text with the U.S. government?
Q6. Will there be scaled conferences?
That is, will tug commercialAWE have a
dedicated conference? Will traction powerkiting sportAWE
have dedicated conferences; they probably have already had some major
conferences. Will toyAWE have their dedicated
conference? Will there be a dedicated Low-altitude AWE
conference?
Q7. Will utilityAWE join the
dominant wind power community (now saturated with hard-towered turbine
habit) in a happy way?
Q8. Virtual-space conferences are valid structures.
What has occurred and what will occur? How formal might these
become? Do chat and e-mail tag suffice for this genre of conferencing?
Q9. Did NASA get involved in tethered wind power in the 1970s or 1980s?
Q10. What AWECS meetings were held in the 1970s and 1980s where a
substantial amount of AWE patenting was occurring?
Q## ?.
Aspects of a meeting:
announcements, date,
intentions, venue, attendees, presentations, papers, results,
references, demonstrations, .... Significance?
- Meeting-conference at AeroVironment was an early important meeting.
- Drachen Foundation on traction meeting. Details are invited.
- Possibly the first conference? Europe
with Ippolito or Ockels and others
Date: Place: Attendees:
Links to paper or reports: ([
] call for facts)
First International Workshop on
Modelling and Optimization of Power Generating Kites
(KITE-OPT 07)
Leuven,
January 30, 2007
9:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Optimization in Engineering Center (OPTEC), K.U.Leuven,
Room 00.62, ESAT-Building,
Kasteelpark Arenberg 10, BE-3001 Leuven-Heverlee,
Belgium
- Delft 2008
([ ] call for facts)
- University of Texas seminar 2008 . Notices, invitations,
facts on presentations, attendees?
([ ] call for facts)
Report1
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USA conference with David Lang, Dr. Paul MacCready,
Joe Hadzicki, and Scott Skinner, conferenced in 2006 at the important
site of AeroVironment in Southern California. . ...Drachen Foundation
([ ] call for facts)
Date: Place:
Attendees: Links to paper or reports:
- Major symposium 2009. Full report requested. J.
Breukels, M.Sc. is preparing full report. Start:
http://www.energykitesystems.net/notices/2009dec.html#KDS7dec2009
- HAWP 2009 at California State University at Chico, CA. ,
November
5-6, 2009
www.HAWPConference.com
Speakers slide sets.
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March 5, 2010. 8 a.m. PST ...USA national AWE phone conference:
E-mail collaboration and then phone conference re: HR 3165 amendments.
Decided: "airborne wind energy technology"
- Dave Santos meeting with CMNA in Texas.
CMNA
M1189 March 2010.
- In planning, another conference by Drachen Foundation.... for
2010
Date: Place: Attendees:
Links to paper or reports:
- ?? HAWP 2010
AWEConference 2010
- ??: AWE 2011 Belgium
in 2011 in
May: see forum for announcements.
ToyAWE 2011 AWEIA 2011
HAWP 2011 KiteEnergy 2011
- ??: AWE 2012
MicroAWE 2012
- ??: AWE 2013
NomadicAWE 2013
- ??: AWE 2014
- ??: AWE 2015
- ??: AWE 2016
- ??: AWE 2018
- ??: AWE 2019
- ??: AWE 2020
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