Wave Powered Generator to Power Homes

Eh-Wire writes "A Scottish company, Ocean Power Delivery (OPD) and it's Norwegian backer, Norsk hydro are set install three wave powered generators 3.5 miles off the north coast of Portugal for the Portuguese renewable energy group Enersis. This will be the world's first commercial wave powered generating system. Providing the initial three generators perform as expected, an additional thirty wave powered generators will be installed by the end of 2006. It's estimated the wave powered generator farm will displace 6000 tonnes of carbon dioxide that would otherwise be emitted from conventional electrical generating plants."

Comments

In Mexico..

[Kinky Bass Junk]

... a similar system was in place, however the locals misinterpreted it and put it in the middle of a football field.

M'y, you'r, hi's, her's, it's... you know?

[Dolda2000]

A Scottish company, Ocean Power Delivery (OPD) and it's Norwegian backer

Editor's: Im glad to see that youre capable of correcting the posters use of apostrophe's. Its too much to assume that the poster's would get thei'r grammars right anyway.

Cool finally the royal family can contribute

[Timesprout]

They are always waving. The Queens waves are a bit feeble though, dunno if I would want her powering the electric shower in the morning.

Holland is prime example

[Anonymous Coward]

We need look no further than The Netherlands for why some environmentalists think birds will get killed in wind turbines. It is a widely known an accepted fact that millions of birds every year are killed in all those dutch windmills which exist only to prop up the local postcard industry. In fact, 'Holland' is dutch for 'bird mincer'.

*cough* (if others are allowed to spout uninformed crap on emotive issues, I see no reason why I shouldn't join in the fun)

J

Re:renewable energy sources

[Tim C]

The enviromental extremest... will find any reason to complain , we have heaps of them here in Germany , I often drive past them. And have never once seen a dead bird laying around at the bottom of them , they are hardly noisy atall and generaly not that much of an eye sore

Oh I don't know, the really extreme ones can be pretty vocal and I've known a few that weren't exactly pleasing on the eye. They don't generally kill very many birds though, I'll give you that...

Cat power?

[wytcld]

Domestic cats kill millions of birds annually. Windows kill many thousands of birds who fly into them. Animal-loving environmentalists often keep cats, and live in dwellings with windows, so they can gaze out at their beloved nature. Homes without windows would be more energy-efficient. Perhaps we can harness cats for energy, but they sleep 16 hours a day.

Cats will do fine

[xant]

You just burn them, like any fuel source. ;-)