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[PierreB]

@dougselsam

I’m not “blaming” Makani for anything except their own results.
I merely use their well-intended effort as an example of being steered in a wrong direction by “visionary” thinking, where the vision is seen as so grand that everyone forgets to examine the details, but just go forward with what turn out to be unrealistic expectations based on some incompletely-analyzed “vision”.

Makani faced a dilemma.

1. Limit oneself perpetually to small scales under penalty of never being able to sell a system of a few kW occupying an enormous space (always this problem of density, even more significant for AWES).

2. Go to the size above (600 kW, it is still well below the current HAWT) at the cost of unsolvable problems.