Re: Tethered Flying Wing Wind Power

[Frederick Sparber]

Or you can attach a soft plastic tube to the bottom center of  it and have

Frank Grimer pump it full of concrete (or high pressure water?)

to make a permanent support tower.   :-)

----- Original Message -----

From: Frederick Sparber

To: vortex-l@eskimo.com

Sent: 1/8/2006 4:14:55 AM

Subject: Re: Tethered Flying Wing Wind Power

Although the Magenn "Balloon Turbine" http://www.magenn.com/products.php 

is novel, a tethered (three computer controlled

payout winches) airfoil"a lightweight/hollow flying wing"  launched by feeding

power to the multiple generators until the wind holds it up is a lot cheaper .

Battery backup applies soft landing power in case of wind failure.

 

NASA Glenn Airfoil Simulator:

 

http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/airplane/foil2.html

 

Air Density Calculator:

 

http://www.linric.com/webpsysi.htm

 

Styrofoam Density-Properties:

 

http://www.dow.com/styrofoam/ap/china/prod/prop_fab.htm

 

Patents that reference our  1973 patent, US 3,751,869 can show

how to use welded wire reinforcement of Styrafoam. Simply

plug 3,751,869 into "Term 1" and  hit "Search" at this URL:

 

http://patft.uspto.gov/netahtml/search-bool.html

 

Are Aerogels on the Horizon?

 

http://members.tripod.com/~geobeck/frontier/aerogels.html 

 

Fred