Engineering With Rosie on Airborne Wind Energy

Reality is catching up with previous rave reviews.

That said, this very (too) long video does not present anything new.

The purely engineering perspective is not sufficient to account for the possibility or not of the AWES to integrate into the environment.

We (not quite “we”) generally see what is reported in some publication (see table 1), without imagining the considerable diameters that the rotary AWES could reach, for example simply by opposing two GygaFly (totaling 130 m diameter), then going towards various PTO including that of Daisy…