Tethered Tidal Kite Energy Converter

A tethered underwater kite — the mechanism behind real "deep green" tidal power devices — doesn't sit still in the current like a conventional turbine. Anchored to the seabed on a tether, it flies a fast figure-eight loop crosswind to the tidal stream, building up a water-relative speed many times the current itself, set by its wing's glide ratio. A small turbine riding on the kite then sees that multiplied flow instead of the raw current, and since power scales with the cube of speed, this lets a slow, otherwise uneconomical current drive meaningful power output from a rotor a fraction of the size a fixed turbine would need. This simulator renders the kite's real flight path and turbine live in 3D, with current speed, glide ratio, tether length and rotor diameter all under your control and power output, kite speed, relative rotor flow and the multiplier over a fixed seabed turbine read out in real time.