It’s refreshing to read rotary as crosswind.
The path of a Daisy kite on a rotor is exactly analogous to the programmed desired path of the Makani rig. It’s even mor crosswind than a circular yo-yo path with the downwind corkscrewing.
I do not want to constrain daisy kite rotors to short radius paths. Centripetal acceleration and bank angle encourages expansion of the rotor. This expansion should be exploited to dynamically increase swept area per unit kite as wanted.
This tweet thread https://twitter.com/rodread/status/1062283887974539264
Shows how a stack of networked kite rotors can be dynamically reconfigured with expanded rotors flying a larger swept area.
Also of note is the possibility to hoist rotors under lifting kite networks.
This massively increases the density of deployment over land area.
https://youtu.be/IlslZIg6iUQ
and
https://youtu.be/8mVj2QU_dYc
Similarly hoisting rotors inside tensile lattice volumes would massively increase the density of deployment over a given land area.
https://youtu.be/8vpTF2m4ub4