Slow Chat III

[PierreB]

@dougselsam

Take kite-reeling, for example: After maybe a $ billion spent, and the effort of thousands of well-intentioned people over 15 years, perhaps a few days of somewhat meager power output have been generated, amounting to probably less total energy than my tower-mounted Bergey 10 kW wind turbine generates every month (worth maybe $200 at best).

That probably comes out to over a million dollars per kiloWatt-hour. And no matter how many times Pierre repeats the supposed fact(?) of over 100 kW once being generated by one such system, on one single day, perhaps a decade ago, and maybe one other day, there does not seem to be any system in regular operation, to this day, right?

Hi Doug,
I’m afraid you’re right about your entire comment.

As far as AWE is concerned, it has been an experiment that has not resulted in anything useful in wind energy.

When I praise the 100 kW I absolutely don’t mean that the thing is viable. But the other prototypes are even less so.

We can always dream about an architecture that could be successful. But we see that it is anything but obvious: how can you have something stable and efficient without a tower and without the super-sophisticated rotors that you have with HAWT?