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Kite Energy Fundamentals and Applications
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Kite-Energy Glossary
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  • babyAWEindustry M2726
  • backcountry kiting
  • backing wind Its opposite is veering wind.
  • backlash
  • Bainbridge bainbridgeint.com/
  • bait-ferry Kite system that captures the kinetic energy of the wind to power the transport of fishing or other animal bait to a desired location. See: http://mullerskitefishing.com/ Also, in logging, kite systems carry logs to target locations.
  • balance
    • balance in kites
    • balance line
    • balance mass

  • balanced kites In AWECS, the having of more than one kite with an initial trunk tether while branched tether permit a variety of branching of working kite units stay in balance so that destructive interference does not occur during production of energy for useful works. The balance may be simplistic or very complex. Scores of fighter kites have been balanced even though they have highly erratic motions. The Roto-kite or Rotokite has soft balanced kites in rotational balance for yo-yo energy-production method. Also, two kites balanced in timing for one going out while other depowered coming in are balanced smartly by controllers and kite-control units. Rigid kiteplanes may be controlled for balanced rotation branched from a single tether with turbines on the kiteplanes. A doctoral student is revisiting in 2010 the challenges of AWE balanced kites: Reinhart Paelinck Peter R. Payne recited in his patent in Fig. 3 the means of keeping two kites in balance while being flygens and having their short tethers emanating from a single point on a main non-sweeping tether. See also: dancing kites The AWE Community is invited to advance the "dancing kite" file for all. Click image for full instruction.
    See: M2699 and its following posts. See also: M2704 and its following posts.

    Note:     The use of the adjective of "balanced" has other uses in kiting. Elementary symmetrical balancing of a kite's lifting body is one such use; upon balancing left and right weight and/or aerodynamic performance, one may say that one has a balanced kite (up to those parameters).
  • balancers Various balancers are used in kite systems.
  • balancing a kite What are the ways to balance a kite system?
  • balancing an AWECS
  • ballasted boom in TipB
  • ballasted lever
  • ballasted paravane is like an air LTA kytoon M434
  • ballistic pendulum
  • ball bearing wiki/Ball_bearing Notice the difference: spherical rolling elements are used in "ball" bearings; other shapes of the rolling element, say cylindrical or conical shapes provide other realms of bearings. Roller bearings is the general term. See also cylindrical roller bearing, ________
    • ball bearings play an increasing role in some AWES
    • ball-bearing tip refers to an easily rotatable tip of a hang glider
  • ballonet wiki Yes, just one "o" in spelling.
  • balloon, balloons [literature also has balloon with one "l"] and kytoon, kytoons
  • balloon boy | 1933 | image |
  • ballooning
  • Ballooning on Mars
  • ballute, ballutes
  • bamboo
  • banners
  • banner towing
  • bar, bars
    • cross bars
    • longitudinal bars
    • oblique bars
  • barge , barge holding sets of hydro turbines tugged by kites
  • Barrage balloon (kytoon type, kite balloon type). These were bridled and were LTA kite balloons. Upon some wind, the kiting principle played to counter some of the blow-down.
    • News in 1941
    • WWI : France, Germany, Italy, England
    • WWII :
    • balloonet type
    • dilatable type
    • The U.S. Army Barrage Balloon Program
      By James R. Shock
    • wiki/Barrage_balloon

  • In 2011: BHL

    BarretinaHyperLite neat steps, Pere!
    Single-skin-partial-second-surface canopy wing, an echo of Barish Sailwing P2S technology!
    ...destined for manned and unmanned explorations in kiting and free-flight!
    SSP2S PG: Single-Skin--Partial-2nd-Surface PG

    Barrentina HyperLite, Barrentina Hyper Lite (BHL)

    In 2012:
    BatLite http://vimeo.com/45830391 1er vuelo de altura del BATLITE 1.8 de ADRENALINE PARAGLIDERS BatLite 1.8 ( = Adrenaline Paragliders' version of the simple surface BarretinaHyperLite), flying high! July 2012.

    BHL JAP building

    Published onOct 30, 2012by

    "Making-of" Video, of BHL JAP Singleskin Prototype.Detailed information about this project on Laboratori Dエenvol. laboratoridenvol.com/
    This video is not an instruction, it just shows some steps of a possible building process.
    Enjoy and feel free to leave a feedback.

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  • beam construction
  • beam (mechanical structural element)
  • beam (stream of photos, rays, light beams, plasma beam, )
  • beam stiffening energykitesystems.net/BeamStiffening/index.html
  • beam theory (dynamics and statics)
  • BEAN In his discourse he brings in another major acronym: BEAN :: Bearingless End-braked Autogyro Node. Also another of his key acronyms is STALK STALKs See: Free Rotor by Colin Jack. An acronym in his patent. Stack To Altitude LinKage In his discourse he brings in another major acronym: BEAN :: Bearingless End-braked Autogyro Node
  • bearings
    • thrust bearings | SampleTB1 | Timken TBs |
    • axial load
    • radial load
    • cylindrical roller bearings
    • magnetic repulsion bearings
    • repulsion magnetic bearings
    • self-aligning roller thrust bearing
    • thrust ball bearing
    • slewing bearing
    • bearing load scenarios: | Art1BL |
    • tapered roller bearings, taper roller bearing, | SampleTRB1 |
    • (? helicopter transmissions)
    • fluid film thrust bearing
    • pseudo-levitation
    • Magnetic bearing device Kesatoshi Takeuchi (application for patent)
      Drawing Consider this for swivel on rotary arch kites and rotary arch ribbon kites.
    • axial magnetic bearing
    • active magnetic bearing systems
    • homopolar magnetic bearing
    • non-contact thrust bearing
    • Magnetic bearings, where the axial thrust is supported on a magnetic field. This is used where very high speeds or very low drag is needed, for example the Zippe-type centrifuge.
    • roller bearings
    • needle bearings
    • thrust bearings
    • self-aligning spherical thrust bearings

  • beat-ups
  • Beaufort Scale
  • Beaujean
    Dr J. M. E. Beaujean, Joseph Marie Elise Beaujean; company: Bogey Venlo B.V. in Venlo, Netherlands. Civil engineering. AWES concept of 2012 announcement. AWES6109 and following. Discuss there.
    Same: Drs. J.M.E (Sjef) Beaujean, Sjef Beaujean Contact. Eurospiraal B.V. For some mindset behind his move toward huge AWES, meditate over his spiral for transport of large prefabricated pipes and complex cables, etc. Floating Spiral Method. eurospiraal.com/articles/OPT+pic1.pdf
    eurospiraal.com/articles/pipeline_gas.pdf
Editorial: Consider a complex spiraled hull holding water turbines; tug it out to sea and fly traction kites to pull the full device broadside while making electricity and manufacturing chemicals including hydrogen. Products could be stored in another spiraled complex and towed to ports for release of the products.
  • behavior switching agents
  • belay, belaying, belayer wiki/Belaying
  • Bell, Alexander Graham
  • belly-band or bridle line of a kite
  • bending
    • bending stiffness
  • Benhaiem, Pierre.
  • Bensen, Igor Bensen (typo is the o use: Benson).
    • kite gliders, gyro gliders, giro gliders, giro kites, gyroplane, gyro copter, auto giro, auto gyro, autogiro, autogyro, giro copter, etc. He used the control method that was evident in at least 1908 in Breslau with pilot hung from wing behind A-frame, the control method used by Spratt, ski kites, and hang gliders. The Breslau use was cable-stayed triangle with pilot hung from behind the A-frame. Bensen used several morphs of the control method, one of which was ornamentally directly a triangle control frame with pilot hung behind the frame. Mechanix Illustrated, August 1954, see issue.
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  • belly band (part of a kite's bridle)
  • Benjamin Robins
  • BES or EBS Consider if BES was intended: Bose-Einstein Statistics (BES)
  • best kite for power generation is a myth, as niche purpose will have its own strong contenders
  • best practice AWE
  • Berck-sur-Mer | wiki ||
  • Bethell, Ray. Amazing KITE Flying! Ray Bethell
  • Betz, A., "Das Maximum der theoretisch mo'glichen Ausnutzung des Windes durch Windmotoren," Zeitschrift fur das gesamte Turbinenwesen, Heft 26, Sept. 26, 1920.
    • Converting wind's kinetic energy to another form of energy slows the wind.
    • Betz limit, Betz law, Betz' limit, Betz' law wiki "Three independent discoveries of the turbine efficiency limit: The British scientist Lanchester derived the same maximum already in 1915. The leader of the Russian aerodynamic school, Zhukowsky, also published the same result for an ideal wind turbine in 1920, the same year as Betz did.[2] It is thus an example of Stigler's Law."
    • math.le.ac.uk/people/ag153/homepage/Gorlov2001.pdf
      • "The most interesting finding of our analysis is that the maximum efficiency of the plane propeller is about 30 percent for free fluids. This is in a sharp contrast to the 60 percent given by the Betz limit, commonly used now for decades. It is shown that the Betz overestimate results from neglecting the curvature of the fluid streams. We also show that the three-dimensional helical turbine is more efficient than the two-dimensional propeller, at least in water applications. Moreover, well-documented tests have shown that the helical turbine has an efficiency of 35 percent, making it preferable for use in free water currents." Gorban, Gorlov, Silantyev
    • Betz' Limit
    • Lanchester-Zhukowsky-Betz limit
    • Betz' Law
    • A proof: http://www.mstudioblackboard.tudelft.nl//duwind/Wind%20energy%20online%20reader/Static_pages/betz_law.htm
    • Wind-Energie in 1926.
    • Albert Betz
    • For a given fluid energy-harvesting system there is an upper bound to the percentage of the fluid's energy that may be harvested.
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  • Bft Beaufort Wind Scale Developed in 1805 by Sir Francis Beaufort of England. wiki/Beaufort_scale
  • BHL See Barrentina HyperLite kite and gliding kite (paraglider)
  • BHWE Bundesverband H?henwindenergie e.V. i.G.

    BHWE Bundesverband Windenergy ; 2013.

    • BHWE Bundesverband H?henwindenergie e.V. i.G.
    • Guido Luetsch, president, German Airborne Wind Energy Association.
    • Founded: _2013 on date: ??_________
    • e.V. stands foreingetragener Verein= registered association Note.

    • BHWE Bundesverband H?henwindenergie e.V. i.G.

      (German Airborne Wind Energy Association)

    • News release of Feb. 18, 2013 about Sept. 9 and 10 and 11 of 2013: AirborneWindEnergy/message/8595

    • First president: Guido L?tsch

    • First association members? __________________


  • bicycle parts List
  • bidirectional
  • bigAWE
  • big ears (paragliding term)
  • Big Wind similar to Big Oil or Big Coal. Big Wind is the playground for AWECS. Indeed, some are aiming some AWECS for mining the energy in hurricanes.
  • bike ratchet hub
  • Bill Ola Rasmussen
  • billow shift
  • biolocomotion [See also propulsion kinematics, metachronal rhythm, ]
  • biologically inspired control Al Furey
  • biplane
  • bird Fond name for an aerodynamic object. E.g., each version of the grounded and airborne SpiralAirfoil Airborne is referred to as a "bird."
  • bird kills
  • BISMAC bio-inspired shape memory alloy composite
  • bistable
  • biz bluff
  • biz stealth
  • bladder

  • bladeparafoil
  • blade, blades Rotor blades. Turbine blades. Whisper H-40 blades. rotor
    • tip of a not-there blade Rod Read: AWES6290
    • Number of blades in HAWT, AWE or tower-held? Theory? Correlations with end use? Reynolds number, cut-in, hysteresis, form-factors, materials, handling, scaling, speed-limiting, cultural-preferences, budget, purpose, life of project, initial costs,
    • blade-tip AWES paradigm has severe challenges AirborneWindEnergy/message/8283
    • blade technology How to make blades for HAWT?
    • blade-throw distances Upon failure of a wind-energy turbine of any sort, what is the amount of space and distance required for setback from vital settings in order to address parts where they should not be? For AWES, the range for wing and tether fall is to be considered.
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  • Bladud. King Bladud. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bladud
  • BLC boundary-layer control
  • blended wing
  • blimp Blimp basics .
    • blimps
    • blimp turbine See also: kytoon turbine, Magnus-effect kytoon turbine, Magenn blimp turbine
    • blimpy
  • B lines video1
  • blipmap, blipmaps | start article | | | |
  • BLM brushless motor
  • block and tackle wiki Supply1 Supply2
  • blocks
    • standup blocks StandupBlocksPHOTOS
    • pulley blocks
    • block
    • double block
    • triple block
    • fast eye block
    • snatch block
    • wire rope cheek block
    • wire rope deck block
    • swivel-eye block
    • center-board block
    • Pulley Block with Latched Hook
    • upper pulley block
    • lower pulley block
    • phys.unsw.edu.au/~jw/blocks.html
  • BloomBox Bloom Energy Server. Bloom Energy Fuel Cell. Note: Fuel is an input. A type of fuel-cell. Company: Bloom Energy.
  • blowcarting
  • blown wings
  • blowout
  • blow-over wind on balloon or kytoon that blows the balloon or kytoon far downwind to an undesirable altitude
  • BM Burning Man wiki Home
  • BOREAS
  • Borsheim M231 John Borsheim, president of American Test Engineering Corporation (ATEC) of Austin, Texas.
  • boundary layer
  • boundary-layer constrained devices

Earth or a planet's atmosphere boundary zone

  • boundary layer control BLC Perhaps better: boundary zone control.
    • Many contrivances have been explored to affect the boundary layer flow on wing; some of these methods may play in control of AWECS lifting bodies for control, lift, asymmetrical flight, adjustments for balance, increasing energy production, ...
  • boundary layer control system (BLCS)
  • Boundary zone. Boundary-zone thickening by objects roughen the surface of the earth. Objects that project upwards deflect the wind and thicken the boundary zone as the object blunt the wind and damp some of the wind's kinetic energy. AWECS are more of that projecting of roughness.
  • Bouquets of kites
  • bow line
  • bowline (knot) wiki
  • bowtie | kite system might be forced into a bowtie configuration as a result of turbulence, some failure, control, Generally a bowtie would be an unwanted event. However, leave open the possibility of deliberately setting a system into bowtie for some reason. Notes are welcome.
  • bracing line Lyle and Richard team on Rotary Kite in 1976
  • brake
  • brake lines
  • branch
  • branching
    • term for high jumping (jump up to a branch, jump over a branch) ... primitive flying
    • term for structure of kite tree pattern where lines branch out to wing elements; this may be repeated for several levels of branching. At a junction may be a split to two, three or more further branches.
    • term use for the cascade of bridle or tether lines to a wing in a kite system, as in gliding kite paraglider. There may be one level, two levels, three levels, or more levels. Branching permits the use of smaller diameter lines while a bridling of a wing is effected; the wing may be just canopy or airframed wing. Example .
  • break
  • breakaway, runaway, flyaway
    • breakaway AWES AWES7239
    • breakaway kite, breakaway kites
    • breakaway kite system
    • mitigations for breakaway kite systems
      • killability
      • Multi-lines to multi-anchors AWES4461
      • wing morphing for spoiling or gliding
      • wing destruction
      • cutting tether for tether drop
        • cutting tether near wing; drogue tether falls
      • v
  • breakdown
  • breakdown cost
  • Brearey kites and gliders [Sometimes misspelled to Breary, absenting the second e ]] Fred Brearey, F. W. Brearey
  • Breeches buoy
  • breeze
  • breeze generator
  • Breukels, Jeroen bigsight.org/jeroen_breukels
  • bridge rectifier Art1 Vid2
  • bridle
  • bridle lock Phrased used in patent: US3918663
  • bridle matters
    • correctness
    • balance
    • control
    • line pattern
    • cascade
    • branching
    • v
  • bridling
  • bringing down giant kites
  • Briza Technologies Hovering Wind Turbine Technology. Hillsborough, New Jersey. HWTs "It is also particularly attractive applying HWT offshore in deep-water sites for the production of hydrogen fuel," said Briza. "Multiple large arrays of HWT can be affordably anchored to the ocean floor to generate multi-megawatts, and hydrogen can be locally produced and collected in a platform through a network of underwater pipes." Jan. 2005. Ref1 [ED: It seems as though their former website is inactive. The holdings seem to have been purchased by another company. News is invited.]
  • broad gauge (rail) Rails are proposed in various AWECS. wiki
  • bowsprit
  • Bruce foil
  • Brush, Charles F. Windmill generating electricity 1887-88 RefGen1
  • Brushless DC electric motor
  • Bryan Roberts
  • Bubble Wrap (tm) wiki
    • Use in wings and AWES structures? AWES6591
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  • buckling, unbuckling,
  • buckling load mitigation of buckling
  • Budapest kite, Buda kite, Buda Jewish kite ---- was fact in 1904.
  • buddy system in kiting, in hang gliding, in AWES operations
  • buffet
  • buggy, sail
  • Buggy Town
  • Bukur, Thomas J. Rotary Flyer patent
  • bulk electricity
  • bullet sled Ed Grauel Bullet Sled Ref1
  • bullroarer (sometimes found "bull roarer" Some vibrate without rotating continuously about its long axis, but some do rotate continuously about its long axis to be itself then a rotating flip wing ... a foundation for flip-wing rotor kites, rotor kite rotating ribbon arch kites. Some are tethered on cords. Some are not tethered on cords.
    • bullroarer effect
    • For the continuously rotating flip-wing sort of bullroarer we have two aerodynamic effects: 1. Basic Bernoulli airfoil lifting that dominantly forms flipping moment, and 2. the involved circulating air forms an air cylinder where on such air form is a secondary effect of Magnus effect. ~JpF
    • Some videos of the tethered bullroarer
    • Swivels or not on a tethered bullroarer?
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  • bull wheel, bullwheel wiki
  • Bungee Cord, the quarterly newsletter/magazine of the Vintage Sailplane Association in the USA http://vintagesailplane.org/newsletter.shtml BUNGEE CORD - Voice of the Vintage Sailplane Association.
  • bungee cord wiki/Bungee_cord (Sometimes: bungie cord or bungy cord) shock cord, (Occy strap / Octopus strap in Australian common usage) Energy may be stored in the bungee cord; release of that energy uncontrolled may cause injury or death. Uses are many. Glider launch (unmanned or manned).
  • buoyant lifting body
  • buoy generator
  • Burning Man (BM) wiki
  • burst strength
  • buzz
  • buzzing
  • BVI-Necker British Virgin Islands-Necker Island AirborneWindEnergy/conversations/messages/12131
    http://www.neckerisland.virgin.com/ Richard Branson's private island
  • BWB Blended Wing Body
  • BWE Bioinspired Wind Energy
  • BWEA, British Wind Energy Association
  • BZ Belousov-Zhabotinsky BZ CA three-dimensional Belousov-Zhabotinsky-scroll cellular automata (3D BZ CAs for short) BZ-CA, BZ CA,
  • BZ reaction wiki [[ Could this be an analogical model useful in understanding or visualizing vast dense latticework AWECS? ]]

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