SkySails launches #kite drive for yachts >> Scuttlebutt Sailing News http://
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Installing SkySails on a vessel costs about $2.5 million, and there are currently only two ships using it.
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Parachute Kite - YouTube https://
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Wind Talk Podcast Series - Windpower Engineering & Development http://
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"Forexample, in a 2–MW wind turbine, the weight of the rotorand the tower is typically about 250 tons [10]. As reportedbelow, a kite generator of the same rated power can beobtained using a 500–m2kite and cables 1000–m long, witha total weight of about 2 tons only."
Is this a reasonable claim?
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Get a copy of "report on the experiments" referenced in Kite Journal Fall 2004? - mshook@gmail.com - Gmail https://
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KiteGen Stem - YouTube https://
The second half explains several results
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"in a 2–MW wind turbine, the weight of the rotor and the tower is typically about 250 tons [...] a kite generator of the same rated power can be obtained using a 500–m2 kite and cables 1000–m long, witha total weight of about 2 tons only."
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" the SKS C 320 towing kite system with a towing #kite area of 320 m2 – replaces up to 2 MW of the main engine's propulsion power."
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SkySails GmbH - 2. Demonstrator (1 MW) http://
SkySails GmbH - SkySails in Airspace http://
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"In routine operations the towing rope of the 160m² towing kite of the SKS C 160 is let out to a length of approx. 280 meters, and the towing rope of the approx. 300m² towing kite of the SKS C 320 is let out to a length of max. 420 meters. "