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Would be moored more or less the same way deep-sea oils rigs are. The main difficulties, as I understand it, is the unique stresses and forces of the turbine on

Would be moored more or less the same way deep-sea oils rigs are. The main difficulties, as I understand it, is the unique stresses and forces of the turbine on platform stability. I can see why an image of these moving back and forth is appealing, it will almost certainly make more sense to have dedicated craft responsible for it (even if they were not fixed to the ground). The very sorts of stability you need would work against it being an efficient transport.

usrusr 3y ago
That's why it would be so nice to just forego the static stability you need for an air turbine: a sailboat gets all the stability to push its sail into the wind from its movement. It's like the lift of an airplane that is completely gone without movement. So you put up sails (or a powerful traction kite), get to speed so the keel provides the lateral lift you need to not just drift downwind and engage the hydrogenerator to skim off some off the energy.