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Future Prospects of Airborne Wind Energy (AWE)
Uwe Ahrens NTS
The paper shall give a summary of the necessity of alliances in the industry of AWE
A short historical overview using examples of previous devel-opments of basic technology inventions and its impact to the future will underline it.
Particularly with regard to the power market the paper shall il-luminate future options and/or reactions to respect or realize. From author´s point of view, not only the different AWE con-cepts are important for a success story, because:
• The most AWE concepts promise energy competitive to fossil fuels.
• The most AWE concepts promise less use of resources compared to existing renewable systems.
• The most AWE concepts promise capacity factors up to 2-3 times of conventional wind turbines.
Important will be other factors like:
• The success will be more dependent of the ability to cooperate
• The acceptance will be more dependent of the public opinion
• The acceptance will be more dependent of the political decisions influenced by public opinion,
• The regulations
• The dependency on subsidies of either public or private investments.
If the factors of success of our AWE technology are used appropriate this will have a tremendous influence of the fu-ture development of the global economy.
The paper will show the do’s and don’ts by lessons from former basic technology inventions.
Uwe Ahrens NTS Energie- und Transportsysteme GmbH Kurfürstendamm 217 10719 Berlin Germany uwe.ahrens@x-wind.de www.x-wind.de
