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What is the Shell Game in energy kite systems? Shell has rubbed KPS and Makani? Else? Next step for Shell? Under what shell will the IP be found? Is the Shell Game being played against the big steps made by KiteGen?
What energy is airborne wind energy (AWE)?
AWE definitions “airborne wind energy”
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What are definitions of “airborne wind energy”?
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AWE faces the use of wind energy by flying things (artificial or natural, live or dead, tethered or untethered) for accomplishing secondary effects (grind, transport, charge batteries, pull items, give lifts, etc; some categories of AWE deal with making hydrogen or other chemicals; some categories of AWE deal with generating potential energy by water pumping, or making electricity for small or larger needs.
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People in commercial and military aircraft that use onboard ram-air turbines (RATs) have airborne wind energy using resultant winds to gain advantages.
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People in soaring and hang gliding and paragliding have airborne wind energy to effect advantages of time-in-air. Their awesome AWE provide recreational and commercial activities.
*** Factions within the wider AWE world may not have time to give coin to other factions of AWE, but lessons in one faction may well help the advance of AWE in other factions or categories.**
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Indeed, the wings and kited wings of AWE come in a vast number of sizes and shapes and materials.
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People and workers in sub-categories of AWE might promote their sub-category defintiions of AWE in ways that neglect the larger AWE spectrum. E.g., AWEIA might neglect the full spectrum. Or traction workers might neglect the full spectrum. Or recreational kiting might neglect that they are part of the AWE spectrum, though they convert wind energy to effect the good of health and recreation and exercise in many ways.
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AWE (activity): what AWEIA does: airborne wind energy: use wind by living or artificial things to achieve secondary effects.
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Kiting in any setting is part of AWE.
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Commercial airlines and ships at sea tht plan to use wind or water currents against their wings (hulls too) in order to effect a good are AWE man ifestations.
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Ballooning spiders (they actually kite in free-flight) are AWE participants.
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Airborne wind energy - Wikipedia does not yet encompass the full meaning of AWE.
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“Airborne wind energy is energy harvested from wind or other fluid flow by things flying in the air, tethered or not, that is used by nature or man to effect secondary effects of pulling, lifting, transporting, driving generators, etc.”
What is “paravane energy” ?
Paravane Energy, a category of AWE
(PE, in context)
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Energy water kites convert water flow energy for doing good works, sometimes including the generation of electricity.
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Minesto is one company among many developing paravane energy to serve human needs.
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An artist David Tudor touched a primitive paravane space for art sake.
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Some have estimated that we are in an infant stage of paravane energy.
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Notice that AWES patents exist that deal with kited air wings and kited water wings in integrated energy systems, i.e., touching the dynamics that are involved in FFAWE (free-flight AWE). ’
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The adventure of PE may be discussed in this topic.
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Images general: ParavaneEnergy
How do we differentiate old Wind Energy from AWE? This broad definition seems to compass all of Wind works.