wave power

Looking like something out of a Fifties B-movie, it slithers and slides through the waves. But far from being a deadly predator, the 600ft-long rubber sea snake could one day be the answer to the worlds energy crisis.

Treehugger presented in February a story about a wave powered boat and its sailor (Heinichi Horie), who had the guts to go from Honolulu to Japan on a 4,800 miles trip, with a boat powered solely by the waves. Today he finished his trip, according to Associated Press.

Francis Farley, an experimental physicist (I like them much more than the theoreticians), has invented the “Anaconda” wave powered device. It can mainly be described as a large distensible tube, made out of rubber, closed at both ends and filled with water. The Anaconda tube is designed to be anchored just below the sea’s surface, with one of its ends facing the oncoming waves.

I received a message today from a reader suggesting a particular website. I read the information on that particular website, and there was presented a hybrid energy producing system by using the waves as a “catalyst” for the operation of a diesel-powered generator.

BioPower Systems from Australia thought that making an under-ocean energy collecting system whose movement resembles with the one plants have, would be much more efficient and non-disturbing to the environment.

Wave power has improved very much and it still didn't reach its full potential! more of those soon.. we have to replace oil and coal-based energy

Free energy from the seas! could you get enough of it?

Portugal is poised to open what will be the world's first commercial wavefarm, and while the coastline's formidable surf will be a source of electricity, the engineers need a decent "weather window" to be able to get their machinery out to sea. The Pelamis machines, named after the Latin for sea snake, are a series of red tubes, each about the size of a small commuter train, linked together, and pointed in the direction of the waves. The waves travel down the tubes, causing them to bob up and down, and a hydraulic system harnesses this movement to generate electricity.

Professor Jonathan Adler suggests that prize money for renewable energy innovation rather than federal subsidies is more effective. But will it work for marine renewables? Read my post to see my thoughts.