PRESENTATION ON AIRBORNE
WIND ENERGY
LIFT FORCE:
The lift force is acting perpendicular to the body surface.
DRAG FORCE:
Drag force acting in effective winds direction.
CLASSIFICATION OF
AIRBORNE WIND ENERGY
As both the drum and generator can be placed on the ground, we call
this concept ground-based generation or traction power generation.
For continuous operation; one has to periodically retract the tether.
Two phase are there, power production phase is also called reel-out
phase, and the retraction phase or reel-in phase.
This allows one to reel in the tether with a much lower energy
investment than what was gained in the power production phase.