If buoys won't work, neither would barn doors I would expect....

If buoys won't work, neither would barn doors I would expect.

Besides the area is ice free during the winter.

“We get tremendous weather,” Newlun says with a knowing chuckle. “It’s the open Gulf of Alaska. It’s about the harshest winter weather conditions you could imagine. You get 30-foot waves, huge winds – in other parts of the world they call them hurricanes; we call them a storm.”

The site is ice-free through the winter, however, and Staby, while acknowledging that Yakutat will pose a stern test, says RME’s device can handle giant waves."