88nodes (year 7)
$767Kannual revenue
1.6MkWh / year
3deployment tiers
1protocol
Three-tier underwater swarm fleet diagram
In-pipe · ducted · kite

Swarm architecture

Three tiers, one fleet. Scouts map the resource. Harvesters take the high-current sites. Kites extract energy from the slow flows nobody else can reach.

The architecture →
Five underwater turbine architectures cutaway
OpenFOAM · NACA · BEMT

Technology

Horizontal-axis propellers, ducted venturi rotors, kite-principle velocity multiplication, flexible-foil vertical axis, oscillating hydrofoils. Textbook physics, deployable hardware.

Inside the rotors →
Axial Labs Vancouver workshop patent-style illustration
Vancouver, BC

Engineered here

Designed at Axial Labs in Vancouver, manufactured in BC using the same CNC and marine composites shops that build our in-pipe turbines. Deployed in the Salish Sea.

About AXL Energy →

The Fleet, by the Numbers

LayerUnitsOutput / unitTotal annual
In-pipe tubular propeller (AXL-T)453 to 15 kW$607,000
Ocean scout (flex foil VAWT)201 to 5 kWresource map
Ocean harvester (ducted propeller)1520 to 50 kW$100,000
Ocean kite (velocity multiplier)820 to 30 kW$60,000
Total (year 7)88$767,000

All revenue figures reflect the year 7 target deployment. See the roadmap for the build sequence and deployments for site-level detail.

The Thesis

Most of the moveable water in the world is already moving. Tides pull through the Salish Sea four times a day. Cold glacier melt drops thousands of feet through municipal pipes on its way to your tap. Slow currents push through passes and inlets that nobody has ever tried to tap because a stationary turbine would not pay for itself.

We do not build dams. We build small, smart turbines that go where the water already is. In the pipe. On the seabed. On a tether flying figure-eights through a current too slow to bother any other operator. The swarm is the product. The protocol is the glue.