Hello Pierre:
I will say I had that same idea of Earth providing crosswind separation decades ago, and even thought it could probably be developed into some formal rule for wind energy, that it requires something providing crosswind distance, and the Earth itself is an obvious pre-existing and handy way of achieving that distance, which in a regular wind turbine is achieved first by blade stiffness, then, once spinning, that plus centrifugal force.
I think your confidence is perhaps in advance of any evidence to justify it.
What you’re talking about amounts to a short-throw, reciprocating version of the cable-suspended sideways laddermill that was tried decades ago at a windfarm in Tehachapi, and quickly abandoned. Except, like a vertical-axis wind turbine, the network in the photos we’ve seen uses more material, ostensibly to aim in all directions at once.(?) And of course it will not enjoy high-aspect ratio blades, no high-speed airfoils to extract most of the available power, no steady-state operation, no specialized exposure of high-speed airfoils across the wind, which is the basic requirement for wind energy.
I do not see a kite network that has been shown to fly, in this case.
I do not see a kite network that has exhibited any tendency to pull in one direction or another, at all. Not even close. Not even a suggestion.
I have seen no movement of any kind from this “kite” network, period. Not even a promising wiggle. Nothing.
It does not look like a network of kites at all. It looks like a network of cloth triangles, with no way to fly them, or control them. If they are “kites”, have we seen one fly yet? Why not? It looks like they would get in each others’ way if somehow magically arranged in a dome.
Certainly we’ve not seen any movement that could be used to pull any cables or pull trains up the sides of a crater located below.
The only way we’ve seen it airborne at all was it was briefly tied below an actual kite (You know, the kind you can fly? Holding onto the string?)
Speaking of “laddermill”, remember how it was so celebrated, before one was ever built? How ingenious it was said to be? And to this day, nobody has still ever bothered to build one.
So, with that as an example, in my opinion, rather than celebrate THIS supposed wind energy breakthrough as “Brilliant”, “Advanced”, or even as a network of “Kites” at all (which it does not appear to even be), you might want to wait until someone actually DOES build an ACTUAL network of KITES that CAN move, and that CAN pull cables or otherwise power generators. What you are looking at here is a nothing-burger if I’ve ever seen one. A wish-list of a magic carpet from the fiction section of fantasy-land.
You don’t have anything shown to pull, be controllable, move in any way, OR EVEN FLY AT ALL(!!!), and you’re celebrating a “Brilliant” and “Advanced” puff of hot air, that has never been seen in real life, and for all you know, never will. If you ever see a shred of evidence that this is a good idea, then you might consider calling it at least “possibly useful” or “slightly promising” or “a potential first step”. And that’s AFTER it has been DEMONSTRATED to DO ANYTHING AT ALL!
I really can’t imagine the mentality of calling it anything more than “another empty promise”, when, as you know better than most, it is really nothing more than an extension of 14 years of continued all-talk BS, never resulting in significant power output, ever, so far, and counting, no matter the magnitude of threats to the contrary that never materialize…
The main story never changes, the details just magically disappear, then are replaced with whatever the latest fixation or excuse is.
Show us something real, not the latest fiction from the same old source.
