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  1. Re:Tides by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on World's Largest Wind Farm Gets Green Light

    Wave/Tidal power IS being used

    http://www.wavegen.co.uk/what_we_offer.htm

    There is also a large project in Chile using wave-powered electricity generation. It's a growing technology, it just hasn't been widely embraced yet.

  2. Wavegen Built a Wave Power Station in 2000 by section321a · · Score: 1 · on Wave Powered Generator to Power Homes

    Wavegen, a company based in Inverness, Scotland, built a commercial waver power plant on an island off the coast of Scotland in 2000. As of 2003, it was still in operation.

    The plant works on the "oscilating water column" concept. This BBC news story from 2000 explains how it works.
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1032148.stm

    Here are additional links.
    http://www.wavegen.co.uk/what_we_offer_limpet_isla y.htm

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/2666853.stm

  3. Science Project by programgeek · · Score: 0 · on Wave Powered Generator to Power Homes
    I did a science project on this stuff in chemistry this year while looking for an alternative to power supplies which are based of oil and such.

    Some links on Wave Energy
    http://www.darvill.clara.net/altenerg/wave.htm
    http://www.wavegen.co.uk/
    http://www.technorati.com/tag/wave+power

    Yeah, can you beleive getting information on this stuff is as easy as googling it?

  4. Re:What I want to know is by ackthpt · · Score: 3, Informative · on Alternative Energy: Power Via Coastal Wave Motion.

    Well, there's been a project like that in the Thames River near London, if it's still there, for a couple decades. I don't know what it's called, but this is hardly a new idea. Here's one site on the subject.

  5. Re:Location, Location, Location by precize · · Score: 1 · on Wave Driven Generators

    They are developing an offshore varient, according to this page. They are calling it the "Powerbuoy". I don't know about it being underwater.

  6. Tidal generators are the stuff dreams are made of by Anne+Marie · · Score: 3 · on Wave Driven Generators

    What the press release doesn't make clear is that Wavegen's generator has actually made its schedule: the 2000 rollout was promised back in 1998. How many technologies do you know which have made their window like that?

    What the press release also doesn't mention is how Wavegen's generators don't pose the same ecological threat that other generators have historically posed: the chief alternative is a "tidal fence" which completely blocks off the channel in the same way a dam blocks off a river. And like with dams, tidal fences can disrupt the migration and spawning patterns of fish and other sea creatures, who shouldn't be forced to bear the brunt of human progress upon their tuckered little bodies. Wavegen's generators, as you can see from the diagram pose no such risk.

    Now, let's just make sure we don't steal too much momentum from the moon and have it crash into the earth. That would put a real damper on any ipo.