Airborne devices for generating power in a crosswind power generating phase, including a body and at least one non-planar wing. A control system directs the airborne device to follow a predetermined flight path of increasing altitude during the crosswind power generating phase. Wind energy conversion systems and methods including an airborne device, a tether, a generator, and a control system that directs the airborne device to follow a predetermined flight path including a crosswind power generating phase.
WIND ENERGY CONVERSION SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS
2015-09-10
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
Offshore wind-energy-conversion systems
Tema Archive | 1981
|Offshore wind energy conversion systems
Tema Archive | 1980
|Offshore Wind-Energy-Conversion Systems
AIAA | 1981
|Offshore wind energy conversion systems
AIAA | 1980
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