Joe I like the motivational aspect of your message, and I tend to agree with it in general, however I would like to present a few observations:
- You and Dave have always been the biggest “strutters” in AWE, the endless self-descriptions as “top researcher”, “domain experts”, etc., in terms of the number of theories, ideas, and notions presented in online forums, compared to how much sense they actually make, and how many (few) (zero?) actual useful or promising apparatus the two of you have demonstrated, based on these theories, in 24 man-years of patting each other on the back as energy-breakthrough-geniuses.
- Who ever decided AWE has to somehow be “mysterious”, complicated, profound, or beyond reach or comprehension? Maybe it’s simple, straightforward, and easy to understand, and you guys just don’t understand it and don’t do anything about it. How about that?
- To me, the claims of “quantum”-this-and-that are really just artifacts of you guys not understanding wind energy, but hoping that your lack of understanding can somehow lead to some unpredicted success with vibrating tethers etc., which is a common “revelation” among the vast unwashed public, which I am reminded of every time I see a street sign wiggle in the wind and think “There’s all Dave Santos needs to see to imagine he is a genius with another unrealized breakthrough”. All you guys really need is an unfounded theory to support your main theory that you will somehow revolutionize wind energy without ever grasping it in the first place. The whole “quantum” thing is, to me, a desperate grasping-at-straws in hopes that using big words will somehow make you guys seem so smart that other not-all-that-smart people will somehow be convinced you guys do have some breakthrough, but no actual breakthrough ever seems to emerge from all your big talk and whacky theories. Machinery operating in a coordinated, organized, effective way, or multiple parts operating in synchrony do not require “quantum physics” to understand, design, build, or operate. Imagine if there were no lawnmowers and you two had to come up with one. How much BS would we have to listen to, for how many years when the real BS you needed was “Briggs & Stratton” oh, and a blade? Sound familiar, all you need is a motor and a blade? Why make it more complicated than it needs to be? Answer: because if nobody can comprehend what you are talking about they won’t ask you to build one to prove it. So you can go on feigning “expert” status without ever having to come up with an actual solution! How about a V-8 engine? All those cylinders working together - must be “quantum”, right? Just to make sure nobody can comprehend it? Then you don’t have to build it?
- "Good works with kites? You guys never demonstrate any “good works”. How about using a kite to return an overdue library book? Or just pump some water like people have been using wind to do for thousands of years! Come on Joe, generating electricity is the currency of our modern electrified civilization. Use whatever phantom quantum wampum you wish, and generate some juice! Most everything you guys say is just posturing, comprising one super-giant excuse for not generating any significant amount of electricity or doing any other of the “good works” you like to cite. You two seem to think if you can keep things sounding complicated enough that nobody can understand it, it somehow makes you “players”. No, getting something working that at least shows promise is what it takes, not endless empty talk.
- I’ve told you this one before, a saying I heard a while back that immediately made me think of you:
“It’s good to have an open mind, just as long as it’s not so open that everything falls out!”
By the time you’re calling underground concrete anchors “wings”, I think that’s an example of when “everything falls out”. You might as well just start excavating and pouring concrete and you can “call it” airborne wind energy. Of course people will call you crazy, but you know better…
Other than that I do agree with leaving no stone unturned insofar as using analogies and whatever sources for ideas and applicable analogs.
:)))