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no need for no-fly zones > Kite turbines can fly under 30m above ground - making them the only CAA ANO CAP393 compliant airborne wind energy system.
by riffraff 5y ago
no need for no-fly zones
> Kite turbines can fly under 30m above ground - making them the only CAA ANO CAP393 compliant airborne wind energy system.
- ncmncm 5y agoEnergy available from wind goes up as the third power of wind speed. Wind speed rises with distance from the ground, up to a limit. So available power goes up as the 4th power of distance from the ground. There are very sound reasons for wanting to get your energe extraction farther from the ground.
- vanderZwan 5y agoThat is pretty great! But GP is right in the sense that to really extract a lot of energy you want to go higher into the air too, so why not make use of those no-fly zones for scaling this up?
- UncleOxidant 5y agoSure, but the higher up you can go the more wind there generally is. It's one of the big potential advantages of kite windpower over fixed blade systems.