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Alternative Energy: Power Via Coastal Wave Motion.
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.
feel this energy
Exactly what's new?
Put two or more linkend fliating vessels into the sea, and tap their relative kinetic energy. This has been on the drawing bord since 1980, and in the water since 199x...
Baaaaad submittter, now go back to the cave.
//Wegge
grr. I browse at 1 so I won't see crap like that. Can somebody mod that back where its supposed to be? Thanks.
Why don't you take a class and do the math yourself?
CA is screwed on power costs because your governor waited til power costs were peaking before he signed long term contracts, now the energy providers are making good money off the state (and your utilities are making bare minimum, thats the penalty of deregulation and the payback for the long term monopoly they had)
And for you eco-freaks that want to complain about oil companies, how many of you drive a solar vehicle? Or a hydrogen vehicle that gets H2 from solar? When hydropower becomes available, you bash the oil companies and then whine about the fish spawning in the river or the coral that will be scraped off these wave generators.
If you want to be so environmentally friendly, shut down your plastic-containing computer and go sit in the woods naked since some fossil fuel was used to make your clothes or heaven forbid nuclear energy!
Until you're ready to go back to the level of egyptian or early greek civilization, work to support clean low cost energy and minimize your use of the dirty stuff.
But don't sit there with your big monitor and the incandescent (WASTEFUL!) lamps and your big screen TV with the 300W surround sound system and bash oil companies. Go vote with your dollar. Install solar and live off the grid.