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Kite, high altitude and airborne wind energy: New Laddermill Video from Delft, New international conference
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Kite, high altitude and airborne wind energy. Wednesday, 2 March 2011. New Laddermill Video from Delft, New international conference. TUDelft flying high, Next AWEC conference in europe. Quick post today, here's a new video showing the great progress being made at TUDelft. They've made good progress on the kites working with Mutiny, you can clearly see the modified attachment points and bridle on the in-flight video. This video also shows the teams first autonomous controller deployed on the kite. Harnes...
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Kite, high altitude and airborne wind energy: Airborne Wind Energy on TV and at TED
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Kite, high altitude and airborne wind energy. Sunday, 30 January 2011. Airborne Wind Energy on TV and at TED. Great exposure for Ampyx, SwissKitePower. After a protracted blog-silence whilst I finished my phd thesis (now submitted! I'll now be updating the blog again whenever there is news to report. 2011 should be an exciting year for Airborne Wind Energy, with more new startups, established energy and engineering firms moving in and some exciting projects in the pipeline. 21 March 2013 at 05:24. Harnes...
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Kite, high altitude and airborne wind energy: 3MW Kite generator in build ?!
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Kite, high altitude and airborne wind energy. Tuesday, 3 August 2010. 3MW Kite generator in build? World's most powerful kite turbine? Just saw this video today featuring the Kitegen. Project on the Italian TV show 'Superquark'. At about 2 mins 45 and 4 mins 50 you can see the system that featured in their last CGI animated visualisation in actual construction. Note that I actually have no idea if this actual build is supposed to be running a 3 MW generator, but this article. Would a tower not be simpler?
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Kite, high altitude and airborne wind energy: September 2010
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Kite, high altitude and airborne wind energy. Tuesday, 14 September 2010. Good funding news both side of the Atlantic. Ampyx, Makani secure governent support. Two more sets of funding have been announced this week, Ampyx Power, the Dutch spinout from TUDelft, who have been working on their rigid wing, ground based power generation concept (see pic) since '08, today announced new EU funding, to continue their autopilot development and the scaling up process. Image property of Ampyx Power BV. Still have ab...
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Kite, high altitude and airborne wind energy: February 2010
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Kite, high altitude and airborne wind energy. Thursday, 11 February 2010. CMNA power, new startup. Another US stealth startup, another marine kite company. Only a quick note today, but in one of my sporadic googling sessions I found a new start-up. And I also found out about another marine propulsion startup. It looks like I'm going to have to update that graph sooner rather than later! The power producer is called CMNA power, their site. Is amazingly tight-lipped ( boring! Tuesday, 2 February 2010.
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Kite, high altitude and airborne wind energy: January 2011
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Kite, high altitude and airborne wind energy. Sunday, 30 January 2011. Airborne Wind Energy on TV and at TED. Great exposure for Ampyx, SwissKitePower. After a protracted blog-silence whilst I finished my phd thesis (now submitted! I'll now be updating the blog again whenever there is news to report. 2011 should be an exciting year for Airborne Wind Energy, with more new startups, established energy and engineering firms moving in and some exciting projects in the pipeline. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Kite, high altitude and airborne wind energy: Windlift Progress, new student project
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Kite, high altitude and airborne wind energy. Thursday, 2 September 2010. Windlift Progress, new student project. Still have about 10k words to go on the thesis but the end is in sight and seeing as the wind hasn't picked up enough yet to go testing I thought it might be time for a quick post. I also found this website. This video shows it being tested. Having seen the scale, You can see how it was affordable as a student project! They have an interesting way of doing the steering at ground level. This b...
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Kite, high altitude and airborne wind energy: Another University Project, Cool Skysails Video
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Kite, high altitude and airborne wind energy. Monday, 13 September 2010. Another University Project, Cool Skysails Video. No time to write much today but here's a video from the group at Rowan University. The kite doesn't appear to be instrumented and I can't see a camera so i'd guess that the control is either passive or manual? I'll update this post if/when I find out. On an ever so slightly larger scale, here's a video taken from a small airplane of a Skysails. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Kite, high altitude and airborne wind energy: January 2010
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Kite, high altitude and airborne wind energy. Sunday, 31 January 2010. Kite visual tracking progress. Tracking kite position in real time by camera. Here is a little clip showing some basic kite tracking software that I wrote. I'm upgrading it now for improved accuracy and an orientation estimate. Big Day for UK renewables tomorrow? I'll post the details here as soon as they come out. Sunday, 24 January 2010. Growth in high altitude wind. Explosive growth in high altitude wind energy. Big news from China.
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Kite, high altitude and airborne wind energy: August 2010
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Kite, high altitude and airborne wind energy. Tuesday, 3 August 2010. 3MW Kite generator in build? World's most powerful kite turbine? Just saw this video today featuring the Kitegen. Project on the Italian TV show 'Superquark'. At about 2 mins 45 and 4 mins 50 you can see the system that featured in their last CGI animated visualisation in actual construction. Note that I actually have no idea if this actual build is supposed to be running a 3 MW generator, but this article. Would a tower not be simpler?
