Talk:Airborne wind turbine

message: You know, every one of these guys has a Web site and a place for investors to dump in their money...but no other coverage on the Web. If it's such a great idea, how is it that no-one is actually using it?  All the deadlines keep moving away at the rate of 1 year per year. --Wtshymanski (talk) 18:56, 3 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Over 85 entities: www.AirborneWindEnergyAssociation.org   Joefaust (talk) 18:02, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text:  It's a fan site. There were Web sites back in 2009, too. Web sites are easier to build than airborne turbines.  Does anyone have any shovels in the ground? --Wtshymanski (talk) 22:45, 28 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: What's wrong with airborne systems? 

message: The article's title ought not force the generator to be in the kite; the turbine could be causing oscillations that drive the kite left and right of the wind window to drive railed or oscillating mechanisms for generating electricity on the ground. Ground-based generators means that the mass of the generator need not be lifted to altitude...leaving the kite to flying job only.  There are many methods being explored other than the one seemingly being featured in the article so far.  There are speciawl reel methods, rail-car methods, line payout-payin methods,.. EnergyKiteSystems.net is an open-source site gathering all of the methods of airborne wind turines, kite motors, kite generators.  When the generator is on land or in the water, then large opportunities seem to be opening. Joefaust (talk) 23:36, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The one scheme that hasn't been floated yet is using an airborne wind turbine to automatically manufacture AA batteries and tiny parachutes, as a method of transporting energy to the ground.  That scheme is only a little further away than the ones with flying wires or pull-ropes (let alone lasers or microwave beams). --Wtshymanski (talk) 21:53, 21 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  Actually, the industry has been discussing charging batteries aloft and then bringing down the charged batteries in exhcange for further batteries to be charged. Further: a patent teaches the flow of chemicals up and down with changes in the chemicals aloft; the down-going chemicals are bonded to store energy to be opened later.  Similarly, the sending down compressed air has been being examined for various ground works: energy storage, drying of harvested food, space air conditioning, etc.  Joefaust (talk) 18:09, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Where is the generator: on ground or onboard in air? 

message: Many reasons: The two articles are not one and the same. Many HAWP devices are not airborne turbines. So do not merge the article. There are many airborne wind turbines operated in very very low altitudes and even at below sea level. So do not merge the two articles.  There is non-empty intersection, but poor coverage will occur if merge is forced.Joefaust (talk)
: Well then maybe this article should merge to High Altitude Wind Power, though it will have to lose the capitals and we must find some evidence that the phrase exists in the world outside Wikipedia. I don't think tehre will ever be enough content to justify a plethora of articles because no-one is actually building anything; looking at some of the patents cited over at the other article, it's cheaper to file a patent than to hire a draftsman. --Wtshymanski (talk) 17:16, 28 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  DO NOT merge High Altitude Wind Power to this article 

message: This Canadian inovation has been shipped to a US company that bought all competing Airborn Wind Turbine inventions.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tunafishes (talk • contribs) 04:41, 25 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Reference? Newpaper article, magzine article, number of the bus on which you overheard a conversation? --Wtshymanski (talk) 19:57, 6 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text:  Well, their Web page is still up, but hasn't been updated since 2009. 411.ca reverse look up on their phone number gives nothing. And a Google search on 105 Schneider Road, Kanata Ontario shows a kickboxing academy and a self-storage site.  No news on Google, though. They're gone. --Wtshymanski (talk) 20:22, 6 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Magenn Air Rotor System SOLD to USA company. 

message: Some company demonstrated a working prototype of one of these at 350 feet. Could someone who understands wind energy better than I do update the article? 140.247.154.41 (talk) 20:48, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Working prototype 

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