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Just want to know what will happen to any cables or shoreline stations during the big wind. You seem to attack anyone who questions this project. I am not criticizing it, I just wonder how hurricane proof it is. Hurricanes do effect water below the surface so don't dismiss it out of hand. I have some huge boulders ripped from the ocean floor on my property. I don't know how deep they were when Andrew deposited them. I think this project is a good idea, I just want to hear more about it before I jump up and down. As a part time resident of Fla, I would love to see my huge electric bills go down.

Let us be real about what may be accomplished in a public discussion in regards to public policy. I am not asking you to invest a dime. However, this is a viable idea much closer to fruition than many other proposals receiving millions from the government. Are there risks? You betcha. I could think of a bunch more than the know-it-alls have fired off here. The point is - if an engineering company, venture capitalist firm wants to risk capital on this idea we, as a nation, should encourage it. As long as benchmarks for production are established, and the lion share of risk capital is private money, I hope the inventors and investors get filthy rich. Or if they fail to account for some of the obvious (and non-obvious) pitfalls, they lose their kiester. That is the American way. Contrast this approach to the billions of tax-dollars spent on fusion research that has yet to yield one single watt of net power. There are investors ready when this society sends the proper message on risk and reward.