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Alternative Energy: Power Via Coastal Wave Motion.

Posted by chrisd on from the manna-from-the-moon dept.

lavalamp writes "Scottish company Ocean Power Delivery has developed a sectional-torpedo-looking-thing as a means to transform the raw fury of the sea into electricity! I'm curious to see what happens when another drunk Exxon captain plows into a field of these things. They just secured a 8.6m (usd) in funding to continue research and build a large scale prototype." The company has won a contract to produce a 750kw "plant" off of the scottish coast and has an mou to produce a 2Mw project off of the coast of Vancouver Island in Canada. While this is far from being free energy, it is a pretty interesting way of deriving power from the tides. A side benefit is that surfers will finally be able to rail like their boarding cousins.

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  1. Fourthus Postus slashdotus by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    nt

  2. Re:Another drunk exxon captain? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hey, programmers are fuzzy animals too. And we crowd around slashdot 24/7 waiting to bust them for our pain...

  3. Re:Another drunk exxon captain? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Well, I'm not so sure that oil companies are better than Microsoft. Microsoft probably hasn't caused the death of anyone. Shell probably can't make the same claim.

    http://web.mit.edu/aram/Public/shell/why-shell.htm l

  4. watch this post go (-1, Offtopic) by cjpez · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    (from your sig):
    The purpose of the ninja is to flip out and kill people
    How true. How very very true.
    --
    Al Qaeda has ninjas!
  5. yeah .... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    microsoft also does not use slave labor or arrange for somebody to kill protesters. Oh and by the way "i wasnt at the helm" is no excuse for a captian. the Valdez, aside from killing many fuzzy and non fuzzy animals, also deprived many people of their livelihoods.

  6. Website design by Da+Penguin · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I don't like to post off-topic and will probably get modded down, but that website really isn't designed to well. First of all, it has frames which in general rarely work well, and it has the scrolling marquee which has the standard problems in IE where it works, and just displays improperly in netscape. It looks like they did not even test it in netscape because of the frame borders. Even in IE, they fit the text so that you have to scroll left and right to read it (on my screen at least). It is full of pdfs, which wouldn't really be a problem, but it opens it inside the smaller frame.

    <rant mode off, going back to real life... now!>

  7. Re:Another drunk exxon captain? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You are so obviously American.

  8. Re:Another drunk exxon captain? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    As a result of the Exxon-Valdez and other spills, oil companies generally don't own ships anymore (bad PR), so you probably won't see anymore Exxon spills.