Brilliant idea for ocean based power generation on front page of the Financial Times yesterday

[Pluvious]

Imagine a super heavy floating ocean buoy bopping on the surface of the deep ocean, with its extended underside "tail" in the shape of a funnel - its up/down motion pushing water up into the top sphere, building up high pressure to push out the water through several turbines

Quite a brilliant concept - the full scale prototype was quite amazing (see video)

Homepage:
https://panthalassa.com

Live test (ten months ago):

[NNadir]

1. We never run out of ideas to destroy ecosystems for...

...so called "renewable energy."

It's surprising to end up here on the left in Ayn Rand heaven.

[ihaveaquestion]

5. You think this will destroy the ocean ecosystem somehow?

Or are you saying the opposite in some obtuse way I'm not understanding?

[GB_RN]

13. Gotta Admit...

I’m as confused as you are. Charitable possibility: Perhaps he/she didn’t read the whole thing and misunderstood what was read.

Cynical possibility: Trolling? 🤷‍♂️

[magicarpet]

2. I want one of these for my bathtub,....

.... I think I need a bigger bathtub ?

Alternate energy is the solution to forever wars with the resultant maiming and killing of our young men.

[ChicagoTeamster]

3. They could also put windmills and solar panels on it creating even more energy

[Auggie]

4. Awesome

I'd rather know these are at work in the ocean than oil rigs.

[Maninacan]

6. Solar

No moving parts! If i can do it anyone can.

[Prairie_Seagull]

7. Lets say for the sake of argument that

the CLIMATE CATASTROPHE is a 4 alarm fire as things stand right now. We need all (including the best scientists and engineers) thinking of solutions. If that comes with a big payday then so be it. This is not a time to pinch pennies.

It's a 4 alarm fire, on the planet.

[Sogo]

8. Really inspiring!

nt.

[JT45242]

9. Was hopeful about this until I looked beyond the video to who is backing it ...Peter Thiel and other trump humping nazis

Per the Oregonian https://www.oregonlive.com/business/2026/05/portland-based-ocean-energy-startup-gets-140-million-investment-from-billionaire-backers.html

The funding round, which will support continued development of prototype devices and development of a pilot manufacturing facility in Vancouver, values the company at $1 billion. It was led by billionaire Peter Thiel and includes a number of other prominent investors such as John Doerr, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff’s TIME Ventures, and Paypal co-founder Max Levchin’s SciFi Ventures.

And it goes from cheap energy for everyone to data centers for oligarchs.

'So depressing to think that this apartheid pushing dickhead is behind this.

[Zackzzzz]

10. Forgive me please, It may be I don't understand the process.

But do we have to worry about the curious fish that live in the ocean
being sucked up and pulverized?

[moreland01]

11. Dang! I was really hoping to see

it actually sending energy back to terra firma. They offered 2 ideas for actually transmitting the energy back to humans who live on land, but they didn't get that far yet in their development of the project. I wonder how far out into the future this is. So amazing. It must be so exciting for these engineers.

[mitch96]

12. Ok what am I missing here, I went to their website and did a google search. I cannot find out how they

move the electrical energy produced by the device to shore...One is mentioning using it as a device to power on board data centers. Hummmm

I always thought it would be neat to use tidal energy to power turbines...LIke the Bay of Fundy
The bay water rises and falls oveer 50 feet twice per day..
Dat's a lot of liquid...
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