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This is a follow up to the reports of a kite power collection system developed in the Netherlands and implemented in Ireland.
I attempted to find citations about parents in the US Patent Office web site, but a simple search using kite and power produced too many citations. I then tried advanced search with "wind and power and kite" but still got too many citations. This system ** must ** be patented, but it may be patented in Europe, with parents in the US later.
In any case, it is going to take more than my first attempts to find patents that must have been filed on this system. Too much money has been invested for the case to be otherwise.
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This post is inspired by one of Void's topics: https://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=11189
In the new topic, Void reported on discovery of electricity produced by bending ice.
In the context of ** this ** topic about wind, and specifically the report of kites used to generate electricity in Ireland, it occurred to me that trees flex in the wind, and perhaps there is a way to capture electric current from that motion.
To take the kite example... The kites (apparently) present a broad surface to the wind when they are pulling on the generator cable, and they present a thin face to the wind when they are being pulled back to the start position. An artificial "tree" might be fitted with vanes that operate in a similar way, so that they are broad to the wind for the outward excursion, and rotated to be thin for the spring action return.
Power would be collected (somehow) on the outward excursion.
Artificial "trees" like this could be deployed in the path of hurricanes, so that energy might be collected when the supply of wind is abundant.
No doubt rotary windmills of various kinds could be deployed in a similar fashion, if they can be designed to withstand hurricane winds.
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