I got a note that you had some interest in our alternative energy report and wanted to reach out to you about your innovation and intellectual property research work. The telephone listed from our marketing response card was not correct so I simply googled your firm and found you this way. I can be reached via phone at 770-559-3397 or at irina.fays@thomsonreuters.com.

I’m curious how you are going about technology analysis and presenting this to your investors and partenrs. We would love to help you with that process.

Much thanks,
Irina

I read an email from Dave Santos that appears to be saying that your company would like to host a number of other companies — presumably mine as well — that would apply for grants from NIST under an umbrella that your company would provide. Is that true. It is my intent to make tethered wing arrays with autopilots that will be able to extract power from winds about 400m above the ground that corresponds to the peak energy density of low level jets that pass over the Great Plains. Let me know if I can participate as well, and if so how? Dave Santos has been the king of the micro kites. I wish to be king of mammoth autopiloted kites where they and their development processes are made dirt cheap and yet aerodynamically efficient.

Nice to contact you Robert. I’ve heard you name come and go regularly lately.

I was the Project Leader at the Flight Research Institute (FRI) which was a non-profit offshoot of Boeing. I lead a team that consisted of the retiree Chief of Product Development at Boeing and a retired Supervisor of Engineering at Boeing. We developed concepts whereby man will one day be able to fly without fuel by tacking in the air alone with an inflated wing at high altitude faster moving air tethered to a wing at low altitude in slower moving air. We also developed concepts whereby windpower could one day be harnessed from the heart of low level jets at 400mm above the ground in the Great Plains. At that height they would be able to tap into winds that are about 5 times more powerful that the largest and most powerful wind turbines can today. There are many other applications for this tethered wing technology, but I will not go into that now.

I look forward to hearing from you directly.

I wish you and your organization well.

Kind regards,
Wayne German

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I was in elementary school in Newport News VA. There was this guy who people thought was kind of crazy who on weekends was flying these funny kites out in back of my school.

They were funny looking trianglular things made from some sort of flexible foil-like stuff. He used a shortened fishing rod and reel to handle those little kites. And he would get then up several thousand feet into the air where and us kids would wonder at this man looking through his binoculars at his neat kites so far up in theair that they might get hit by a passing airplane.

If you haven’t figured it put yet. the man’s name was Rogallo and he was inventing the parafoil and the bat kite in his spare time. The funny foil was some of the newly invented mylar aluminized fabric.

I understand that for a dozen years or so he got $1.00 for each bat kite sold in the world and he gave the US government free use of his invention.

Please continue to be inspired by your vision and don’t worrry if some of the people around you think you are a bit “odd.”

http://www.studiofoglio.com/ in particular the Girl Genius artwork

http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/

I think their GasLamp fantasy might suit your “steampunk” desires