WaveNET – the Floating, Flexible Wave Energy Generator

Zothecula writes: Scotland's Albatern is putting a new, modular spin on renewable energy generation. WaveNET is a scalable array of floating "Squid" generator units that harvest wave energy as their buoyant arms rise and fall with the motion of the waves. Each Squid can link up to as many as three others, effectively creating a large, floating grid that's flexible in every direction. The bigger this grid gets, the more efficient it becomes at harvesting energy, and the more different wave movements it can extract energy from. Albatern's 10-year target is to have 1.25 kilometer-long floating energy farms pumping out as much as 100 megawatts by 2024.

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[Applehu Akbar]

There may be amore important reason to develop wave energy. In most parts of the UK, shoreline erosion is a serious problem. Any technology that saps the energy of incoming waves is a good thing for countries with this problem.