Reminding AWE Community that Ali Fujino, Dave Lang (NASA, Boeing, Drachen, ret.) and Kevin Mahaffy wrote the first white paper on H2 harvested at sea by kite and shared it to Joe Faust’s original AWES Forum and Archives over a decade ago.
ENERGY & THE POSSIBLE APPLICATIONS OF KITES
NIST/TIP WHITE PAPER
Ali Fujino, Dave Lang, and Kevin Mahaffy
DF copy; go to page 65-
Discourse Issue 4 (drachenkite.com)
Hydrogen is great rocket fuel and a standard welding gas, and its uses will only increase under determined and creative engineering. JAL thinks it has found a Hydrogen Killer App as part of its Kite-Fossil Hybrid Plant concept.
First Kite Energy displaces fossil fuel in legacy plants whenever the wind is blowing. When there is no wind, fossil fuel is the backup, for baseload duty. In the next engineering iteration, onsite hydrogen generation creates just enough stored capacity to further displace fossil fuel use, during no wind, using a lot of the same boiler or turbine hardware, including blended gas mixes.
We also need to apply countless industrial processes that can flexibly absorb excess wind electricity.