ntucker86

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   by ntucker86 6y ago

   the system overview slides in... part II? pretty sure there is a top level avionics layout in there.
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   by ntucker86 6y ago

   The tether was indeed medium voltage, but the motors and controllers were not, through use of a fairly novel stacked architecture. There were still hard problems to solve there, but ultimately the power system worked well, and out performed
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   by ntucker86 6y ago

   There isn't a large amount of energy stored in the tether catenary or elasticity. Any hardware to recoup it probably wouldn't pay for itself. Offshore, there can be a lot of energy stored in buoy motion, and utilizing this can hel
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   by ntucker86 6y ago

   The Airborne Wind Energy section is general, and discusses energy kite performance in a broad way - the tether drag was well predicted and wasn't a surprise for our prototype. The inability to turn the necessary tight paths and some de
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   by ntucker86 6y ago

   System scale is a crucial component of a cost competitive energy system. I lay out the argument for this in the early part of my section - Airborne Wind Turbine Performance - of the released documentation. A 100 kW system may prove useful t