Hello again Pierre:
You are starting to sound unstable. Half the time you are spewing complete nonsense here. As Roddy has noticed, you seem to emphatically fixate on some random thought for a certain period of time, then suddenly it disappears and you are fixated on some “new” issue. It’s starting to remind me of the worst of the worst people on these chat groups, and I think you know who I am referring to.
For years, you promoted your “rotating,reeling carousel” concept.
Now THAT was your original idea (as far as I know), a solution that I never even thought worthy of even trying to completely understand. Why bother - you said you understood it and that was good enough for me. I just took your word for it. I figured, "Let Pierre worry about the details of his “rotating reeling” concept, whatever it is exactly I don’t know, and I don;t care - if it is a good idea we’ll all know soon enough. So where is one today? Was it really a workable concept? Or just a bunch of highly-insistent internet BS from one more misguided wannabe wind energy inventor? While you were fixated on that, unknown to you, rotating lenticular balloons, as a concept, had already been looked into by me.
THAT “rotating, reeling” concept was supposed to have been your big contribution to AWE, ongoing for several years. What ever happened to that? Where is your first “rotating, reeling” prototype? I guess you couldn’t be bothered to actually build and operate such an “important breakthrough”?
Then your theme shifted to endless claims that AWE was doomed, because there was simply not enough space in the sky to support it. Well, I don’t see anyone giving up because of that. Nice try though.
Now you’re trying to chip away at little details of Roddy’s and my work, acting as though, as one example, mundane and common concepts like cyclic pitch control, or a rotating balloon, shaped and positioned to provide aerodynamic lift, have never occurred to anyone but you.
You’ve been insistently claiming SuperTurbine™ and Daisy are doomed to a few meters above ground, based on the few early,small-scale prototypes you’ve seen fly.
Yet at the same time you admit solutions to sag were in my first patent. It makes no sense. And now you mention scaling laws and driveshaft sag, as though you are the first to think of them. Completely delusional. Not sure what is going wrong in your head, and I can’t shift the focus of my life to addressing it, whatever it is. I hope for the best for you. Maybe take a vacation,to somewhere sunny and warm, go for a swim in the ocean or do a little surfing. Maybe your mood will improve.
I went to college for physics and engineering. You think I never considered scaling? Scaling factors are as well-known as 2 + 2 = 4 in Engineering. How many years did Santos go on claiming SuperTurbine™ was a non-starter due to scaling laws? And suddenly you bring it up in the last few weeks, as though it’s your “new, original contribution” to wind energy?
Are you aware that the ACTUAL wind energy industry has ALWAYS been considered to be at “the bleeding edge” of scaling laws, since the first windfarms of 60 kW turbines were operating in the 1980’s? And of course, that was near here, in Tehachapi, California. I know a guy still running them profitably since they were paid for long ago, still robust and reliable. Now turbines are up to 15 MW. And people are still saying they can’t get any bigger. They said that the whole time, since the original 60 kW Nordtank turbines were first installed.
Every time since then that a newer, larger turbine has come out, it has been said that scaling laws simply will not allow turbines to get any larger. EVERY TIME. And now, turbines with a blade span of 1/8 mile are being built and run.
Your latest technology-denial fixation has been to say I somehow have never appreciated driveshaft sag, whereas it has always been at the forefront of my mind, affecting every turbine I’ve ever built, and that no SuperTurbine™ of any sort could ever overcome your typical-but-wrong invocations of the mere word “scaling”, which has been said about every newer and larger wind energy device ever built.
And all this, even though you acknowledge that even my first wind energy patent indeed shows ways to overcome driveshaft sag, including buoyant rotors, and controlling the tilt angle of each rotor. And as I told you, I have MANY OTHER WAYS that I simply have not shared with you or anyone else yet.
Do you know why my buoyant rotors in the first patent look the way they do, with blades like inflated paragliders? Because it was easy to draw using CAD, and it served to convey the concept of a buoyant rotor in a visually appealing way that anyone could understand. It was just one part of a very long patent, which was NOT a full treatise on the concept of every possible way to make a buoyant rotor.
At some point you have to just finalize a patent and send it in for examination. You can’t just spend the rest of your life turning it into an encyclopedia of every thought you may have. Real inventors save some of their ideas for possible future development.
All I can do is tell the truth. I showed you a link to a manufacturer of lenticular balloons that I had contacted ~20 years ago, and told you the reason was to explore lenticular buoyant rotors. And as you have pointed out, those exact balloons were not quite right for being made into rotors, and as I pointed out to you, with regard to the extreme G-forces on ACTUAL high-speed spinning rotors, would probably not be strong enough, and given the extreme torture REAL rotors in REAL winds undergo (like the one I can hear outside right now making full power in this impending blizzard), it is a question as to whether ANY balloon could EVER be strong enough, but the point is, I was already considering such versions of MY ORIGINAL CONCEPT OF BUOYANT ROTORS 20 years before you stumbled across the same exact idea. 20 years. If you don’t believe me, I can’t help that.
But so many things you are saying lately seem so strongly based on negative emotions and disjointed thinking, and perhaps half of your statements lately do not seem to even make any sense whatsoever, to me anyway.
Over the years, I’m usually happy to see a message from “Pierre”, whether from an AWE chat group, or as a personal email. But lately it is getting a bit tedious. It seems that every day I get multiple negative emails from you, deriding SuperTurbine™ and variants thereof, or AWE in general as a concept, often claiming that AWE is hopeless and is no longer worth pursuing, and somehow I am then drawn into what turns into hours and hours of wasted time, humoring your negative thoughts and trying to “talk you down from the ledge”.
This has been going on now for the last several months. Honestly, I’m getting tired of it. And life does not have enough “extra time” to keep doing it. I have a life outside arguing with wannabe armchair wind energy inventors on the internet.
One aspect of these chat groups is getting sucked into the negativity of Santo-esque endless and pointless “arguments”. Life does not contain enough extra time to keep wasting it on such nonsense. If you don’t know by now, that I am a GOOD source of real information, I really can’t help you. I’ve been putting up with what has increasingly turned into mostly nonsense for quite some time now, and I need to move on.
Unlike some people, I have an actual life outside of sitting at a computer trying to reason with negative-minded nutcases all day, every day. Maybe you should look into some attention to your mental health. Perhaps winter has you shut in and bored, subject to bouts of negative thinking. Whatever the case may be, I think I’ve put enough time into fielding your questions and responding to your accusations. I have no more time for it, sorry to say.
We’ve had a lot of good interactions over the years, and I hope to remember them fondly and not let them be overshadowed by this latest tirade of negativity and accusations from you. Take a break, DO something fun for a change. Get yourself into a happy state. I’m not going to be here to serve as your whipping boy anymore. I’d like to stay positive and keep doing what I’ve always done, without daily harassment and negativity. I will always consider you a friend and I hope for the best for you. We all have times of uncertainty and doubt in our lives, I hope you make it through this crisis and come out the other side intact and happy.