@tallakt your explains make sense.
True. The kite rotation for rope-drive transmission is slowed down to 2/3 in a similar way as Makani’s wing is slowed down to 2/3 due to the turbines aloft drag, in a comparable way as yoyo is slowed down to 2/3, if I am not wrong.
On a previous message on Rope-drive transmission - #8 by PierreB I evoked some planning to make the rope-drive to go faster than wind speed, without making any change about efficiency.
The no market Hypothesis - #9 by Kitewinder :“We won’t loose efficiency with height as our belt is static in the sky, only friction with air is slightly increased ( 1.2 mm belt travelling at around 40 km/h )…”, so about 11 m/s with a wind speed probably lower, perhaps about 7 m/s wind speed for 100 kW Redirecting.... So it looks possible a gear increases the rope speed.
If it is implementable a faster rope-drive leads to a lesser torque and a faster and smaller ground generator.
The rope-drive transmission has a main advantage: a continuous power, so a management of only one flight mode instead of two for yoyo.
Yoyo has a main advantage: the simplicity, saving material.