We suffered through years of Mr. Know-it-all endlessly blathering about TRL (“technical readiness level”) of the various failing wind energy attempts covered in these forums. Makani has a TRL of 8, Altaeros has a TRL of 7 , blah blah blah blah blah. Where are they now???
In reality, asking the current crop of AWE wannabes to analyze the readiness of various wannabe AWE systems is like asking the kids in the mentally-retarded class to vote on which of them is most likely to win the Nobel Prize.
They can cast as many votes as they want, but what value do the votes have? What value did ANY of the “TRL” nonsense we’ve suffered over past years carry? I’d say ZERO. Which was always obvious to me, but that doesn’t stop the endless idiots…
How many years did we suffer from this nonstop nonsense of “certain people” pretending to be able to technically and numerically discern which nonfunctional AWE future-failure was least likely to be headed for The La Brea Tar Pits?