• Airborne wind energy (AWE) is the direct use or generation of wind energy by the use of aerodynamic or aerostatic lift devices. AWE technology is able...
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    interference with aviation. Airborne wind turbines may operate in low or high altitudes; they are part of a wider class of Airborne Wind Energy Systems (AWES) addressed...
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  • Airborne Wind Energy Industry Association (AWEIA) was founded in 2009 to serve globally companies and institutions dedicated to converting wind energy...
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  • This is a list of airborne wind energy or kite-energy organizations that are advancing airborne wind energy systems (AWES). In 2011 there were over 40...
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    A wind turbine is a device that converts the kinetic energy of wind into electrical energy. As of 2020[update], hundreds of thousands of large turbines...
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    Wind power is the use of wind energy to generate useful work. Historically, wind power was used by sails, windmills and windpumps, but today it is mostly...
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  • Makani (company) (category Airborne wind power)
    Technologies LLC was an Alameda, California-based company that developed airborne wind turbines. Founded in 2006, Makani was acquired by Google in May 2013...
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  • (WWEA) Airborne Wind Energy Industry Association European Wind Energy Association List of notable renewable energy organizations Renewable energy in the...
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  • SkySails (category Airborne wind power)
    and fishing vessels by wind energy as well as airborne wind energy systems for electricity production from high-altitude winds. SkySails Group GmbH is...
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    March 2009). "High-altitude wind energy from kites! (video)". Retrieved 5 March 2014. Goldstein, Leo. "Why Airborne Wind Energy". Archived from the original...
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    that can be explained in terms of energy transformations in the Earth's interior, while meteorological phenomena like wind, rain, hail, snow, lightning, tornadoes...
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  • Kitepower (category Airborne wind power)
    a university spin-off from the Delft University of Technology’s airborne wind energy research group established by the former astronaut Wubbo Ockels....
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    Østerild Wind Turbine Test Field. Airborne wind farms have been envisaged. Such wind farms are a group of airborne wind energy systems located close to each...
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    from airborne wind-energy conversion systems (AWECS, also AWES) or crosswind kite power systems (CWKPS). The kite system is characterized by energy-harvesting...
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  • Ampyx Power (category Airborne wind power)
    company based in The Hague whose aim was to develop utility-scale airborne wind energy systems. The company was founded in 2008 by Bas Lansdorp and Dr....
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  • sources (e.g., solar power, thermal energy, wind energy, salinity gradients, and kinetic energy, also known as ambient energy), then stored for use by small...
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    so wind power helps limit climate change. Wind power consumes no fuel, and emits no air pollution, unlike fossil fuel power sources. The energy consumed...
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  • wind energy: Wind energy – the kinetic energy of air in motion, also called wind. Wind energy can be described as all of the following: Wind Energy –...
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  • federal government. The project aims to address the key challenges of airborne wind energy technologies with the aim of supporting the commercialization in...
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    kitesurfing, kite landboarding, snowkiting, kite buggying, kite-energy systems or airborne wind energy, and recreational kiting. Foil kites are flown with various...
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    Vestas (redirect from Vestas Wind Systems)
    airfoils dedicated to generating energy by airborne wind energy (AWE). In April 2016, Vestas installed a 900 kW quadrotor test wind turbine at Risø, made from...
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    December 27, 2020. Anderson, Mark (September 15, 2020). "Exclusive: Airborne Wind Energy Company Closes Shop, Opens Patents". IEEE Spectrum. Archived from...
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  • indicator of short-term changes in earnings Airborne wind energy, direct use or generation of wind energy by the use of aerodynamic or aerostatic lift...
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    is Shawn Frayne. Airborne wind turbines may operate in low or high altitudes; they are part of a wider class of Airborne Wind Energy Systems (AWES) addressed...
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    work on the "Laddermill" sustainable energy program, he is considered[by whom?] to be a pioneer of airborne wind energy. As quoted from his Web site: The...
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    shaft or framework, either ground stationed or tethered in airborne systems. The Savonius wind turbine was invented by the Finnish engineer Sigurd Johannes...
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  • energy converter (WEC). Wind energy is the kinetic energy of air in motion; Wind power is the conversion of wind energy into a useful form of energy,...
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  • to recharge flight-driving batteries. Airborne wind turbine Küssner effect Autorotation (airborne wind energy) Clancy, L.J. (1975), Aerodynamics, Pitman...
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    applications using kite control systems, including the airborne wind energy systems of high altitude wind power. Kite types Gliding Gliding competitions Gimli...
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    surrounding plains, gives Nolan county an advantage on production of wind energy. West of Highland School, the Bench Mountain, at 2607 feet above sea...
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