Where do you get conductive tether from?
I thought this would be the easy part…
Who supplies conductive tethers? Any links please?
Somebody must be making some useful conductive tethers because they’ve been trialled in AWES.
Closest thing I have to hand is electric fence polyprop wire … but that’s only 1 wire
Makani report has
The tether comprises a mechanical load-bearing core of pultruded carbon fiber rods, surrounded by a bedding layer, a layer of spiral-wound insulated electrical conductors, and covered in an aerodynamically fluted jacketing material.
The physics of it is similar to a braking cable, which is governed by the capstan equation. (Cable Mechanism Maths: Designing Against The Capstan Equation | Hackaday) So as long as you add enough slack to the wire to account for the lengthening of the dyneema rope when it is under tension, the wire can still slide freely when the rope is under tension, you don’t include too many turns, and there aren’t any pinch points, I think this should work, which I think is counterintuitive.