Traditional wind turbines are becoming increasingly efficient and are being developed more and more.
However, after more than 15 years of intensive research, AWE has stagnated despite some notable occasional advances.
AWE has the advantage of high-altitude winds, and paradoxically, too much diversity of methods against it, which struggle to succeed, all of them have the disadvantage of having to ensure both flight and energy production.
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This last point is often raised. But, in an initial period, harnessing high altitude wind seems to have been a trigger for AWE. If we combine these two points, we could suggest that AWE is something mobile for high-altitude winds.
So here’s a suggestion: use a live wind map to find the wind where it is, rather than waiting for it to arrive: that’s what AWE could do.
In this case, the ground stations could be trucks moving from one charging point (the electricity produced being fed into the point) to another depending on the wind conditions.
AWE should add a resource rather than rather than trying to subtract a portion from traditional wind energy.