Is "AWE" already "commercially viable"? - off topic discussion split from [Makani shutdown]

Good; that should be a strong basis for going forward.

All are invited to add to lists of how tethered fluid kinetic energy-harvesting machines are called in the literature by inventors, developers, consumers, hobbyists, dreamers, science fiction authors, reporters, promoters, sellers, historians, authors, scientists, physicists, technicians, engineers, government authorities, aviation authorities, users, pilots, entrepreneurs, tinkerers, machiniists, futurists, AWEIA, popular press, scientific literature, progressive forums, ……

aerial RATs
aerial WECs
airborne ram-air turbine
airborne wind-energy conversion systems
airborne wind energy generator
airborne wind energy systems
airborne wind turbine
air device
AWEGS
AWES
BAT
buoyant air turbine
electrical kite
energy drones
energy kites
energy kite systems
energy transfer system
flying electric generator
flying electric generator
flying energy generator FEG
flying generators
flying turbine
flying WECs
flying wind drones
flying windmills
flying wind power plant
flying wind turbine
HAWT high-altitude tethered wind turbines
high altitude wind energy systems
high altitude wind system
high flying turbine blimps
industrial kite systems
kite
kite energy devices
kite energy machine
kite energy machines
kite generator
kite hang gliders
kite power system
kite propulsion device
kite propulsion system
kites
kite turbine
kite turbines
LATWT low-altitude tethered wind turbine
man-lifting kites
meteorolical kites
paragliders
paravanes
power generating kites
power-generating kites
power kite
practical kite
practical kite systems
renewable-energy kite
renewable-energy kites
renewable-energy kite systems
scientific kites
skysails
sky sails
tasked kite system
tethered airfoils
tethered aerogenerator
tethered atmospheric energy harvesters
tethered energy device (TED)
tethered energy device system
tethered energy drone
tethered energy drone systems (T.E.D.S.) (TEDS)
tethered energy fans
tethered energy harvesters
tethered fluid deflectors
tethered fluid energy-producing machines (AWES with “air” implying broadly fluids and fluid-like media)
tethered flying wings
tethered hydrokinetic energy harvesters
tethered media deflectors
tethered media energy harvesters
tethered undersea kites (TUSK)
tethered vanes
tethered water turbines
tethered wind energy
tethered WECs
tethered wind deflectors
tethered wind energy generation system
tethered wind energy generator
tethered wind energy systems
tethered wind energy turbine
tethered wind-powered aircraft
tethered wing
tethered wings
tethered wings energy generators
tethered wings energy harvesters
traction air device
traction kites
levopter
levopters
wired airfoils
working kite
working kites
working kite systems

… many more (will place others)