Airborne Wind Turbine: A turbine in the air without a tower

By Fouad Sabry

What Is Airborne Wind Turbine

An airborne wind turbine is a design concept for a wind turbine with a rotor that is supported in the air without a tower. This allows the wind turbine to take advantage of the greater wind speed and persistence at higher altitudes, while also avoiding the expense of tower construction and the requirement for slip rings or yaw mechanisms. There are two possible locations for an electrical generator: on the ground or in the air. The ability to securely hang and maintain turbines hundreds of meters from the ground in heavy winds and storms is one of the challenges faced. Other challenges include transmitting the electricity that has been gathered and/or created back to land and interfering with aviation.

How You Will Benefit

(I) Insights, and validations about the following topics:

Chapter 1: Airborne wind turbine

Chapter 2: Aircraft

Chapter 3: Unpowered aircraft

Chapter 4: Aerostat

Chapter 5: Balloon (aeronautics)

Chapter 6: Savonius wind turbine

Chapter 7: Hybrid airship

Chapter 8: List of energy resources

Chapter 9: Allsopp Helikite

Chapter 10: Airborne wind energy

Chapter 11: Unconventional wind turbines

Chapter 12: Tethered balloon

Chapter 13: Tethered Aerostat Radar System

Chapter 14: Laddermill

Chapter 15: Kite types

Chapter 16: Kytoon

Chapter 17: Unpowered flight

Chapter 18: Makani (company)

Chapter 19: Aerostat (disambiguation)

Chapter 20: Crosswind kite power

Chapter 21: Kitepower

(II) Answering the public top questions about airborne wind turbine.

(III) Real world examples for the usage of airborne wind turbine in many fields.

(IV) 17 appendices to explain, briefly, 266 emerging technologies in each industry to have 360-degree full understanding of airborne wind turbine' technologies.

Who This Book Is For

Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information for any kind of airborne wind turbine.

• Language: English
• Publisher: One Billion Knowledgeable
• Release date: Oct 15, 2022

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Copyright

Airborne Wind Turbine Copyright © 2022 by Fouad Sabry. All Rights Reserved.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means including information storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the author. The only exception is by a reviewer, who may quote short excerpts in a review.

Cover designed by Fouad Sabry.

This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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Preface

Why did I write this book?

The story of writing this book started on 1989, when I was a student in the Secondary School of Advanced Students.

It is remarkably like the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) Schools, which are now available in many advanced countries.

STEM is a curriculum based on the idea of educating students in four specific disciplines — science, technology, engineering, and mathematics — in an interdisciplinary and applied approach. This term is typically used to address an education policy or a curriculum choice in schools. It has implications for workforce development, national security concerns and immigration policy.

There was a weekly class in the library, where each student is free to choose any book and read for 1 hour. The objective of the class is to encourage the students to read subjects other than the educational curriculum.

In the library, while I was looking at the books on the shelves, I noticed huge books, total of 5,000 pages in 5 parts. The books name is The Encyclopedia of Technology, which describes everything around us, from absolute zero to semiconductors, almost every technology, at that time, was explained with colorful illustrations and simple words. I started to read the encyclopedia, and of course, I was not able to finish it in the 1-hour weekly class.

So, I convinced my father to buy the encyclopedia. My father bought all the technology tools for me in the beginning of my life, the first computer and the first technology encyclopedia, and both have a great impact on myself and my career.

I have finished the entire encyclopedia in the same summer vacation of this year, and then I started to see how the universe works and to how to apply that knowledge to everyday problems.

My passion to the technology started mor than 30 years ago and still the journey goes on.

This book is part of The Encyclopedia of Emerging Technologies which is my attempt to give the readers the same amazing experience I had when I was in high school, but instead of 20th century technologies, I am more interested in the 21st century emerging technologies, applications, and industry solutions.

The Encyclopedia of Emerging Technologies will consist of 365 books, each book will be focused on one single emerging technology. You can read the list of emerging technologies and their categorization by industry in the part of Coming Soon, at the end of the book.

365 books to give the readers the chance to increase their knowledge on one single emerging technology every day within the course of one year period.

Introduction

How did I write this book?

In every book of The Encyclopedia of Emerging Technologies, I am trying to get instant, raw search insights, direct from the minds of the people, trying to answer their questions about the emerging technology.

There are 3 billion Google searches every day, and 20% of those have never been seen before. They are like a direct line to the people thoughts.

Sometimes that’s ‘How do I remove paper jam’. Other times, it is the wrenching fears and secret hankerings they would only ever dare share with Google.

In my pursuit to discover an untapped goldmine of content ideas about Airborne Wind Turbine, I use many tools to listen into autocomplete data from search engines like Google, then quickly cranks out every useful phrase and question, the people are asking around the keyword Airborne Wind Turbine.

It is a goldmine of people insight, I can use to create fresh, ultra-useful content, products, and services. The kind people, like you, really want.

People searches are the most important dataset ever collected on the human psyche. Therefore, this book is a live product, and constantly updated by more and more answers for new questions about Airborne Wind Turbine, asked by people, just like you and me, wondering about this new emerging technology and would like to know more about it.

The approach for writing this book is to get a deeper level of understanding of how people search around Airborne Wind Turbine, revealing questions and queries which I would not necessarily think off the top of my head, and answering these questions in super easy and digestible words, and to navigate the book around in a straightforward way.

So, when it comes to writing this book, I have ensured that it is as optimized and targeted as possible. This book purpose is helping the people to further understand and grow their knowledge about Airborne Wind Turbine. I am trying to answer people’s questions as closely as possible and showing a lot more.

It is a fantastic, and beautiful way to explore questions and problems that the people have and answer them directly, and add insight, validation, and creativity to the content of the book – even pitches and proposals. The book uncovers rich, less crowded, and sometimes surprising areas of research demand I would not otherwise reach. There is no doubt that, it is expected to increase the knowledge of the potential readers’ minds, after reading the book using this approach.

I have applied a unique approach to make the content of this book always fresh. This approach depends on listening to the people minds, by using the search listening tools. This approach helped me to:

Meet the readers exactly where they are, so I can create relevant content that strikes a chord and drives more understanding to the topic.

Keep my finger firmly on the pulse, so I can get updates when people talk about this emerging technology in new ways, and monitor trends over time.

Uncover hidden treasures of questions need answers about the emerging technology to discover unexpected insights and hidden niches that boost the relevancy of the content and give it a winning edge.

The building block for writing this book include the following:

(1) I have stopped wasting the time on gutfeel and guesswork about the content wanted by the readers, filled the book content with what the people need and said goodbye to the endless content ideas based on speculations.

(2) I have made solid decisions, and taken fewer risks, to get front row seats to what people want to read and want to know — in real time — and use search data to make bold decisions, about which topics to include and which topics to exclude.

(3) I have streamlined my content production to identify content ideas without manually having to sift through individual opinions to save days and even weeks of time.

It is wonderful to help the people to increase their knowledge in a straightforward way by just answering their questions.

I think the approach of writing of this book is unique as it collates, and tracks the important questions being asked by the readers on search engines.

Acknowledgments

Writing a book is harder than I thought and more rewarding than I could have ever imagined. None of this would have been possible without the work completed by prestigious researchers, and I would like to acknowledge their efforts to increase the knowledge of the public about this emerging technology.

Dedication

To the enlightened, the ones who see things differently, and want the world to be better -- they are not fond of the status quo or the existing state. You can disagree with them too much, and you can argue with them even more, but you cannot ignore them, and you cannot underestimate them, because they always change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones or amateur, others see genius and innovators, because the ones who are enlightened enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do, and lead the people to the enlightenment.

Epigraph

An airborne wind turbine is a design concept for a wind turbine with a rotor that is supported in the air without a tower. This allows the wind turbine to take advantage of the greater wind speed and persistence at higher altitudes, while also avoiding the expense of tower construction and the requirement for slip rings or yaw mechanisms. There are two possible locations for an electrical generator: on the ground or in the air. The ability to securely hang and maintain turbines hundreds of meters from the ground in heavy winds and storms is one of the challenges faced. Other challenges include transmitting the electricity that has been gathered and/or created back to land and interfering with aviation.

Table of Contents

Copyright

Bonus

Preface

Introduction

Acknowledgments

Dedication

Epigraph

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Airborne wind turbine

Chapter 2: Aircraft

Chapter 3: Unpowered aircraft

Chapter 4: Aerostat

Chapter 5: Savonius wind turbine

Chapter 6: List of energy resources

Chapter 7: Allsopp Helikite

Chapter 8: Airborne wind energy

Chapter 9: Unconventional wind turbines

Chapter 10: Tethered balloon

Chapter 11: Tethered Aerostat Radar System

Chapter 12: Laddermill

Chapter 13: Kite types

Chapter 14: Wind-powered vehicle

Chapter 15: Kytoon

Chapter 16: Unpowered flight

Chapter 17: Makani (company)

Chapter 18: Aerostat (disambiguation)

Chapter 19: Crosswind kite power

Chapter 20: List of airborne wind energy organizations

Chapter 21: Kitepower

Epilogue

About the Author

Coming Soon

Appendices: Emerging Technologies in Each Industry

Chapter 1: Airborne wind turbine

A wind turbine with a rotor that is sustained in the air without the need of a tower is an example of a design idea known as an airborne wind turbine.

Airborne wind turbines are part of a larger class of Airborne Wind Energy Systems (AWES) that also includes high-altitude wind power and crosswind kite power. They may generate electricity at either low or high altitudes, depending on the conditions. When the generator is installed outside, In order to function, an aerodynamic airborne wind power system must have assistance from the wind.

In one category, the generator is suspended in the air; an aerodynamic structure that resembles a kite is connected to the ground and supports a wind turbine in order to harvest energy from the wind. In a different category of machines, such as the crosswind kite power system, the generators are located on the ground, and one or more airfoils or kites apply force to a tether, which is then transformed into electrical energy. For electricity to be sent to the ground from an aerial turbine, there must be conductors embedded in the tether or some other mechanism. Systems that depend on a winch are able to put the weight of the generator at ground level instead, and the tethers are not required to carry electricity in this configuration.

Since at least 1980, there has been a growing interest in the field of study around aerodynamic wind energy systems. The following are some examples of more projects for airborne wind energy systems:

Ampyx Power

Kitepower

KiteGen

Rotokite

HAWE System

SkySails

technology known as X-Wind

Makani Power crosswind hybrid kite system

Kite turbine ring-to-ring torque transfer that is interesting despite the windswept environment

Kitemill

A wind power system of the aerostat type depends, at least in part, on buoyancy to sustain the parts that are responsible for wind collection. Kiting effect of greater lift-over-drag forms for the aerostat may successfully keep an airborne turbine afloat; a variety of kiting balloons were made famous in the kytoon by Domina Jalbert. Aerostats can be designed in a number of ways, and the resultant lift-to-drag ratio can also vary.

It's possible to use balloons to keep systems aloft even when there's no wind, but balloons have a slow leak rate, so they need to have their lifting gas constantly refilled and maybe mended as well. The concerns with helium or hydrogen leaks could be solved by using very big balloons that are heated by the sun.

A corporation established in Ontario and known as Magenn

The company Altaeros Energies, located in Boston, utilizes a balloon shroud filled with helium to hoist a wind turbine into the air. The electricity generated by the wind turbine is then sent to a base station over the same wires that are used to operate the balloon. In 2012, a prototype measuring 35 feet long and equipped with a conventional Skystream 2.5kW 3.7m wind turbine was flown and tested.

{End Chapter 1}

Chapter 2: Aircraft

A vehicle or equipment that is able to fly by getting assistance