The field of AWE is a microcosm of the field of regular crackpot wind energy. Always looking at the magical inclusion of one disproven idea after another, whether it is counter-rotating generators, hydraulic accumulators, much-larger-diameter-than-necessary generators, cloth blades, flapping or pulsating motions, drag-based operation, on and on the list goes. Where it stops, nobody knows. Same saying regards a roulette or raffle wheel at a casino or carnival. AWE is like a casino, where everyone entering is almost guaranteed to lose money. A few people who place one winning bet and quickly leave get out “alive”. No contestant yet has discovered “card-counting” which would be equivalent to a system that actually works in spite of the dismal odds. 
I was thinking the same thing about a squirrel trap called “squirrelinator”, which can hold quite a crowd of squirrels, just like a casino hall. I built an enclosure for one to protect it from dogs and coyotes that typically drag any squirrelinator around til it turns upside-down and the squirrels escape. I was thinking of painting it with little casino signs cuz what is it but one more building offering cheap food and entertainment as bait? What happens in Vegas, STAYS in Vegas. What happens in a squirrelinator, STAYS in the squirrelinator. What happens in AWE, STAYS in AWE.