Oh, sorry - that’s a term from wind energy for inexperienced people promoting idiotic ways to supposedly improve wind energy.
OK so it sounds like your “specialist kite energy pros” are defined as either people who have developed kites in the past, but not any AWE systems, or a few AWE people who have proceeded at a reasonable scale, with limited results, and therefore have not needed large amounts of funding. It reminds me of “advanced kite networks”, and you and John and Wayne trading made-up false credentials like “former Director of Research at Boeing” which was an outright falsehood, , or “President Pro-Tem of AWEIA” as though that was ever anything but your own internal back-and-forth within “the firing squad”. Building an online house-of-cards of supposed “credentials” that all started with Wayne as “former Director of Research at Boeing” when in fact he never even worked for Boeing at all. Now it;s on to “Jalbert” so you can pretend to have invented a gliding kite, when again, that is simply not true. You contacted the guy’s living relatives. More BS from DaveS. More bragging ahead of any accomplishments, trying to take credit for something you have never done in all your years of online BSing.
In my humble opinion, calling hypothetical-yet-undefined configurations of kites as “advanced” is just a symptom of how you operate: Congratulating yourself ahead of any fact, celebrating future results with no actual results to celebrate, trying to bullshit your way to perceived success on the internet, without ever actually doing anything noteworthy. A typical example of the often-found absurdity of social media. One more big-talker with nothing behind it, like the Wizard of Oz “Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!”
Out of the whole list, I’d say Dan Tracy could actually fit the definition of an “energy pro” of any kind. Technically, he has sold a few of his devices. I like them. They represent the most simple and obvious method of wind energy using a kite, which nobody else has bothered to pursue, probably because they couldn’t get a patent on such a simple idea. So I guess Makani and Skysails do not fit, because they’re not on your list of low-output favorites who have just barely gotten anything to work, maybe still running model-air[plane propellers backwards as a substitute for rotors?
The kite-reelers at Makani were not “kite energy pros” because even though, as individuals, the personnel were getting paid to make energy using a kite, but they are not on your list of favorite small-players or non-players. The kite-reelers I guess don’t count, right? Skysails supposedly sold a few systems, but it seems nobody is using them, so they don;t count. Seems to me that the definition of “kite energy pros” is anyone who daveS favors, even if they’ve never flown a kite!
Big talk. no evidence - what else can anyone say?
