Pierre, you are replying to Santos, not John. Meanwhile, I would point out, after 14 years+ of musings about AWE possibilities, we’re struggling with even the concept of a laterally-arranged multitude of energy-harvesting wind-responsive elements? Rather than a “paper”, how about a single sentence: “You could arrange AWE elements in an array spanning a crosswind distance.” How about that? And haven’t we mentioned that many times over the years? As Tallak points out, merely repeating the obvious is not progress. To me, it seems similar to saying regular wind turbines could be placed in a row across the wind. (Like they were 2000 years ago) In the field of architecture, it would be like saying you could locate multiple houses on the same street. It’s almost the same as saying nothing at all.
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