Slow Chat II

[PierreB]

@dougselsam

No launchings, no landings, nobody even has to be here, it just does what it does, whenever it needs to do it!

@dougselsam

But what about the actual availability of the AWE system to capture all that energy? What if the energy is there, but no AWE system is ready to produce electricity from it at all times?

One question about AWE is not so much whether the concept of higher winds at higher heights is valid, but what good is it, if nobody can come up with a system that can harness all that wind, all day, every day?

So, like most "alternative’ wind energy devices, AWE systems have their own repetitive talking points. but the question in AWE is not so much the existence and high availability of the wind resource, so much as the intermittency and non-availability of the actual AWE SYSTEMS.

This appears to be a fundamental criticism of AWE for electricity production, and of the inherent problems, especially as this section of the commentary comes after a similar criticism of vertical axis wind turbines which now have a long history of unhappy experiments.

There will still be boat traction and other kite sports.