Airborne Wind Energy: It’s All Platypuses Instead Of Cheetahs

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Kite-based wind generation was first proposed in the 1940s, the seminal power potential paper was published in 1980 and it was first demonstrated in 1986. So why isn’t there a single production system or even an a quarter-scale production prototype in existence today? Each of the combinations of design choices inherent in trying to capture

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