Pierre: Once again, you’re great at finding real information.
Yes, this video is interesting, but disappointing from a power production standpoint.
I’m realizing, this general class of wannabe wind energy devices need to be powered just to stay in the air and complete a single pattern. OMG.
And to think it all started out with kitesurfers saying “We know how much power kites produce!”.
You’d think, with all the computer modeling available, this lack of average output would have been predictable. Maybe they should have tried it at 13 or 14 meters per second. Then again, maybe it would not handle windfarm-class windspeeds very well and break, or burn out its motors. still, wind energy is produced all day long and a majority of the total energy collected is not from super-high winds.
Climate protection, energy transition of the future, revolutionary technology, it’s all there. In kw/h, what does that give?