AWE cannot fail as “a sideshow” in energy. Kite Sports have clearly already succeeded.
Nor do I think extreme-scale Kite Network AWE will fail either, but if it does, it will be due to social failure, not inherent physical impossibility. I have not “finally” admitted this, but have been consistently declaring this all along.
The Holocene Extinction may mean human extinction and even the death of all higher lifeforms and ecosystems. We should work hard on AWE therefore.
How many times did you pester people for being “off-topic”? Come to think of it, “Off-Topic” was one of your favorite “technicalities” used to nitpick and censor us, and if memory serves, was one more reason often given for the pervasive and incessant censorship on your old forum. (And you lie and say there was no censorship - what a joke! Who could make up crap like this? Nobody but you!)
You have no business complaining about censorship, ever, after the endless censorship and endless nitpicking of every word of people’s well-intended posts on your old forum. You guys DO lie. You guys DO exaggerate. You deny reality on a daily basis. I think you should just shut up about now, Virtually everything you say is an outright lie. Even your talk about wind energy is so ignorant - you think you know everything and yet 90% of what matters goes right over your head, and I’m not about to bother explaining any of it to you. Your results speak for themselves.
Your talk here is ridiculous and anyone reading this should be cautioned that you are trying, as usual, to create an artificial reality that is nonfactual, designed, in your mind, to make you some sort of authority, as though everyone should believe your piles of interdependent lies, and people should somehow be forced to obey you and your incessant trouble-making demands.
Guess what? Those days are over! You don’t have any authority to tag-team people with your buddy, and steam-roll them with your wall of ignorance and lies anymore. No more!. Nobody has to do anything you say now. You have no authority here - you are just like everyone else. And, as I said, your results speak for themselves - pretty much nothing. Mostly just posturing, lying, making things up, and generally making trouble, or at least trying to.
I’m sure glad I’ve got a life besides caring about your ongoing nonsense. Lately it’s been a ski and snowboarding vacation. So far this season I’ve spent most days in the mountains. Nice to get up, up, and away, into the pine forests and the snow. What a contrast between the thrill and adventure of skiing and snowboarding every day, going 70 MPH+, catching big air, swooshing through the woods, to come down here and find more AWE BS from you-know-who, in my stupid computer. All I can say is, dude, get a life.
Doug, I am complaining that Rod is willfully off-topic, while representing Moderation power that enforces topics capriciously.
I have never applied Moderation powers, and may object to off-topic distraction without doing anything more.
Electric Longboarding a lot myself, if your call that “a life”. I doubt you do 70+ mph. How do you measure?
What are you waiting for to moderate him? You no longer manage to moderate/censor as in the old forum?
Thankfully, I never have moderated anyone. The point is Moderators that forcefully move or spit topics of others, but allow themselves freedom. Let Rod go off-topic if he tolerates others to as well.
Yup, par for the course, you are complaining about someone being “off-topic” That was one more reason you and Joe censored everyone - with Joe at the actual controls apparently, but with you two tag-teaming everyone. Ridiculous.
And you don’t believe I ski over 70 MPH because it is one more field where you are a know-nothing. I ski only on World Cup Downhill Racing Skis, or Super-G skis. I am a former racer and instructor. It is common to clock us using either radar or i-phone apps using GPS. It is common for us to be in the 70’s MPH on well-groomed, flat, steep, double-black-diamond runs. Even my girlfriend clocks in the 60’s. No more risky or difficult than riding a motorcycle down the freeway. I even break 80 mph occasionally. Not a big deal when you are an expert with the right equipment. Just like wind energy.
In other words, you transferred this task to Joe.
No Pierre, JoeF is his own person. Again, the burden of proof is on the accuser.
Where is the 80mph+ proof? You say wind energy has to have proof.
80mph+ is the claim.
Like I said, you know nothing about the topic of skiing. You asked for something. I just happened to have this pic on my computer. At least it should give you an idea.
I started skiing when I was 5.
And apparently never got very far along in the sport…
I started when I was 4 and never stopped.
We’re no longer using bamboo poles, leather lace-up boots, and cable bindings.
I grew into alloys, composites, step-in bindings, etc., living in Colorado. What makes you think otherwise?
Let us know when you have evidence of 80mph+. That is impressive.
That you would question 70 MPH from a fast skier. Not that unusual. 80 is easy on long, open trails, when there are no people around to hit. Not for crowded days. Best on a weekday with empty slopes.
I only question whether you can prove 80mph+ “just like wind energy” claims you demand proof of. Did you start on New England bunny slopes? You have come a long way then.
When did you start kiting and why not keep at it?
I have no reason to further verify how fast I ski for you. The screenshot I immediately sent you in response to your inexperienced demand for verification of what real skiers routinely know, that freeway speeds are easily attained on wide-open slopes, should be enough to end your idle curiosity as to whether my statements are valid. The data I sent was from an app with a slow response to instantaneous speeds, on a slow day, from the slower, smaller side of the mountain where we usually ski.
Measuring my speed is not a fixation for me. I did just happen to have a screenshot confirming freeway speeds for you however,.
Let’s not pretend, once again, that you can rescue your lack of results in 12 years of supposed wind energy research by nitpicking some skiing data I happened to have at my fingertips in an instant response to your request. I don;t make a habit of recording it anyway. We may often have a pack of us skiing together at high speed on an uncrowded day and one person has an app running. Doesn’t matter.
What you are attempting is one more of your endless diversions from your originally-stated task at hand: replacing your dreaded “windtowers” with your wonderful “power-kites”.
Now if you told me you were producing a kiloWatt, and I demanded some evidence, and you immediately found some data from a day that was not so windy, showing 800 Watts, you would find yourself, for the very first time, with a teeny bit of credibility. Despite your recent statements deriding the measurement of wind power, measured power output remains the standard in wind energy.
Maybe you should make up your mind whether you are in favor of your stupid pretense of having any association whatsoever with some “Paul Gipe” certified third-party verification, or whether it is sufficient for you to simply claim that you can “estimate” some stated-by-you-with -zero-verification high potential possibility of output from flying a kite. I don’t think the standards are based on some idiot in the internet claiming he flew a kite or stirred up some sand from the beach using blue tarps.
I think you should just go away.
12 years of your empty claims are quite enough.
They have nothing to do with my valid claims of skiing fast.
I am one of the two fastest skiers at the resort I frequent.
Everyone there who is interested knows this.
The other is an instructor there who happens to weigh 260 lbs and therefore has more mass compared to his wind resistance.
But let;s not pretend this is relevant to your own complete lack of anything remotely approaching any significant output at all, let alone some mythical (for you, not me) third-party certified measurement.
Uh-oh my girlfriend is saying I have to go - we’re getting ready to head back up to the mountains. Gotta beat the crowds.
Have fun wallowing in your ignorance and continued lack of results.
If you could prove that you ski 80mph+, you would not settle for 66.8. You probably did start skiing New England bunny slopes, if you guess Colorado skiers are comparatively “inexperienced”.
AWE is more about kite skills than your skiing claims. You could try to fly a power kite and see if you like it.
By combining power kites and skis, no more lift tickets and standing in lines. A whole new world opens skiing uphill-
YOU are obviously inexperienced, by your naive comments.
Yeah we had a great time skiing again today,.
You remain a lying wannabe, always trying to deflect the reality of your lack of results, now attempting to change the subject.
I saw a sign on the side of a bus a couple days ago.
It said “Improve Your Life, Make Good Use of Your Time”.
That seems like sound advice.
Is this a good use of my time?
I don’t think so.
It is a New Year.
Sayonara amigo.
Downhill snow skiing experience we both share. I was serenely confident you could not easily back up your 80mph+ claim, but claim away.
Perhaps we also share cross-county snow skiing and water skiing experience (that I have at least). Where I have clear advantage is in kite experience. You are not so experienced, not eager to learn, that cool branch of wind power.
You think skiing uphill with kites is changing the subject. It brings your skiing claims back to AWE. You have no experience or special knowledge skiing with kites, which is even done on sand. I do. Anders Ansar of Sweden is our recognized expert.
No one has preserved more of your rambling messages than JoeF, whom you falsely accuse. Yahoo deleted them, while Joe preserved them and even fixed search for you. Enjoy.
