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the system overview slides in... part II? pretty sure there is a top level avionics layout in there.

The tether was indeed medium voltage, but the motors and controllers were not, through use of a fairly novel stacked architecture. There were still hard problems to solve there, bu…

There isn't a large amount of energy stored in the tether catenary or elasticity. Any hardware to recoup it probably wouldn't pay for itself. Offshore, there can be a lot of energy…

The Airborne Wind Energy section is general, and discusses energy kite performance in a broad way - the tether drag was well predicted and wasn't a surprise for our prototype. The …

System scale is a crucial component of a cost competitive energy system. I lay out the argument for this in the early part of my section - Airborne Wind Turbine Performance - of th…