Slow Chat

[PierreB]

I make it clear that I have esteem for the accomplishments of Dave Santos and his theoretical views on AWE.

Scaling Laws in AWES Design

Starting with Galileo’s Square-Cube Scaling Law, various scaling laws have been identified and explored in AWE domain literature. This topic is to review and add to understanding of scaling laws in AWES design, in order to predict how well various architectures can scale.

Mothra is a Santos’ giant kite from tarps:

Completing Mothra, including variants

Mothra on a ring allowing facing wind directions has been described. Its two anchors could be two winches in yoyo mode as described on Scaling by size, or two pulleys-generators as for the figure 5 above, the problem to overcome for the last being the half turn as reversible wings do not exist for what I know. Other variants can be found, comprising how build the ring and the mobile parts (winches or pulleys with their respective generators) because they undergo a huge traction from the k…