Can tallest wind turbines on lighter masts be also an alternative to AWES?

[Windy_Skies]

@PierreB

Perhaps by stacking the tori (torus pluriel) and inserting the tube into the central hole.

There are no tori. The original concept has inflated “cells.” A lattice tower could have tensairity beams making up the lattice.

@PierreB

would like to know how flywheels, extreme pressures, helium or hydrogen inflation, are managed.

Those are all unnecessary add-ons to the main idea, an inflatable tower, so are distractions.

More useful distractions would for example be the materials you would choose, the desired strength of the beams, their internal pressure, the tensile strength of the materials, resistance to wear and UV radiation, and so on.

And why an inflatable tower is interesting: the height you can make a tower is dependent on the specific strength of the materials you use. That means that a wooden tower has a higher theoretical maximum height than a steel tower for example. Perhaps an inflatable tower has a higher limit still, while being mostly air, so while being relatively inexpensive.

@Windy_Skies

The new structural concept Tensairity: Basic principles

The maximal bending moment in the middle of the beam is given by standard beam theory M = \frac{q*L^2}8

6 COMPARISON WITH SIMPLE AIRBEAMS

The Tensairity beam is ten to one hundred times stronger than a simple airbeam with the same dimensions and pressure. Or to put it differently, the pressure in a simple airbeam must be ten to one hundred times larger then in a Tensairity beam to withstand the same load.