A system that maintains the relative and/or absolute geographical positions of two or more buoyant devices floating in a body of water. A plurality of formation restoring tethers are disclosed which permit the unrestricted vertical movement of networked buoyant devices, while resisting increases in their lateral separations by providing restoring forces to oppose such separations. Tensioning mechanisms incorporated into the tethers generate the resistance to the lateral separations of two or more entities by transforming such separations into an increase in the potential energy stored within such tensioning mechanisms, the potential energy of which is released in the process of restoring the original separations and/or positions of the displaced buoyant devices.
MOORING SYSTEM FOR DRIFTING ENERGY CONVERTERS
VERANKERUNGSSYSTEM FÜR DRIFTENDE ENERGIEWANDLER
SYSTÈME D'AMARRAGE POUR CONVERTISSEURS D'ÉNERGIE FLOTTANTS
2025-06-18
Patent
Electronic Resource
English