Engineering


Crosswind Kites / Planes The kites that go wooooooooosh, wooooooooooooosh, wooooooooooosh. (Please someone write decent category descriptions!) CAD & Simulation Make it virtually before building it. Blade design The torque, the rps, the airfoils… Electronics Zapp. Soldering. PCBs… all that stuff… Manufacturing Making it a reality! Power Transmission conductive tethers, tethers for winching systems, rope-drives, rotating shafts, and more Math & Physics The purest of sciences go here. Lifters / Pilot kites Get the Lift! Lifting things. That boulder just outside of geostat orbit goes here. Generators & Gearing Go get that power! Electrifying! System Design Looking at the structure of whole systems. Flight Control As if anything was under control.
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About the Engineering category
Engineering
1 146 November 16, 2018
Supercapacitors increasingly preferred for wind power
Electronics
supercapacitor
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Mixed HAWT VAWT Testing rotary over lift kite line
System Design
video
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Brainwhere
System Design
brainwhere
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Autogyro with rope-drive transmission
System Design
2 59 October 10, 2020
Rotating AWE systems
Crosswind Kites / Planes
100 862 October 6, 2020
Offshore Comparison : Makani vs HAWT
System Design
31 1172 September 29, 2020
Theoretical drag of a Tether
Math & Physics
tether ,  drag
36 929 September 22, 2020
How is position tracked?
Flight Control
5 71 September 22, 2020
Overspeed protection
System Design
2 79 September 19, 2020
Intermediary Generation
System Design
7 103 September 14, 2020
Peter Lynn's Can kites be economically viable (for propelling commercial shipping in mainstream applications)
Math & Physics
61 792 September 11, 2020
For a given kite, what is the method to extract the most power?
Math & Physics
9 128 September 6, 2020
Rope-drive transmission
Power Transmission
rope_drive
61 1857 September 1, 2020
Ideas for scaling up AWES based on a tethered airborne rotor driving a rope drive
System Design
68 426 August 29, 2020
Would textile ACT Blade process be suitable for some AWES?
Blade design
7 88 August 27, 2020
Turbine Orientation
System Design
29 517 August 26, 2020
Early Makani Launching Method
Math & Physics
13 376 August 17, 2020
What are some ideas to make tethers more noticable in the day, and especially at night?
Power Transmission
28 571 August 17, 2020
Power to space use ratio
Crosswind Kites / Planes
56 1601 August 16, 2020
Tip Speed Ratio
Blade design
14 948 August 7, 2020
Calculating drag [+lectures and books on Fluid Mechanics]
Math & Physics
drag
10 445 August 3, 2020
Scaling by size
Engineering
71 1029 August 3, 2020
Makani Kite power calculations
Crosswind Kites / Planes
56 945 July 29, 2020
The UNAv, a wind-powered UAV for ocean monitoring: performance, control and validation
Flight Control
6 103 July 28, 2020
Dynamic Soaring
Flight Control
dynamic_soaring
0 60 July 26, 2020
Physics of tethered autogyros, autogyro rotors, and windmills at an angle of incidence to the wind
Math & Physics
8 250 July 24, 2020
Solidity and blade number effects on rotor performance of horizontal-axis wind turbines
Blade design
7 203 July 13, 2020
Using hydro turbine as conversion system
Power Transmission
3 230 July 8, 2020
Bryan Roberts' Gyromill (Sky WindPower)
Engineering
15 315 July 7, 2020