[jojoo]

I'm not good at nautics, but in my understanding currents slowly stop and later turn around. Most tide charts are more or less a sine wave, with different highs and lows.

So it's interesting how this 100kw was produced.

The article only says: "The business was able to generate roughly 100 kilowatts of steady electricity during demonstrations earlier this year."

So is this over a few days or just a few hours while peak flow? While currents change, their change is highly forseeable - unlike wind.

[sandpaper26]

Currents are relatively unrelated to tides, and are fairly consistent over time (with some seasonal variation due to differences in hemispheric temperatures).

From [1], "the large scale prevailing winds drive major persistent ocean currents..." Keyword is persistent.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_current

[salawat]

Everything is fairly consistent until you monitor it 24/7, and put a bunch of junk in the way to extract meaningful work.

That's when life starts taking on a surprising level of detail that no one ever stared long enough to notice before.

[stjohnswarts]

I imagine that's one goal of the project? I can't imagine that there hasn't been a shit ton of experiments with "deep" sea currents before this power experiment. I mean it's dead obvious and they wouldn't have ponied up the cash for this if ocean currents were all over the place.

[bayesian_horse]

The pods with the turbines are floating in the water, tethered to the seafloor, so they will turn in any direction the current is going.