Awesome Tips How the Ocean Could Power Our Homes
We spoke to the co-founder and CEO of Eco Wave Power to learn about how their floaters convert waves into energy.
We spoke to the co-founder and CEO of Eco Wave Power to learn about how their floaters convert waves into energy.
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Wonder if they could be installed on the sides of cruise ships.Then,they could power the ship and maybe serve as lifeboats,if the ship goes down.
Those are going to rust and get destroyed by the waves.
To make it cost efficient it need to operate for decades without much maintenance.
Salt water is a very difficult environment. But their system is simple and use standard component, maybe it’s cost effective in certain locations.
Movement of units can contributes to material fatique over time. Eventually, the supporting structure will cracked up/collapsed
I didnt see any floaters, usually brown in colour, eaten by surfers
Wave Energy megawatts 👍
Someone tried the exact same thing here in Wollongong Australia… FAILED.. Why?
Well, like all yachts and ships… little things grow on what is beneath the water… so they get slipped, bum clean, and back in water…
those floats would need to be taken out of the water, to get their bums cleaned, using co2 blurting machinery…
And because of the underwater Growth they would be heavier, and less efficient..
Like Paul C. Sachse Jr. said, looks quite probably a maintenance huge regular cost. And I add to that, what about tides? No explanation is given on that, but they seem to be fixed structures. Consider 2 metres water level difference there times a day and one wonders how the system can perform and thus influencing eficiency.
Awsome idea!
When waves are smaller, a wave generating chamber could create larger waves by filling and releasing water passively using a free moving vertical butterfly valve system.
Industrial civilisation is unsustainable, sorry. The sooner we adapt to that reality the less traumatic the transition will be. Many will profit from grifting onto the denial of that fact, unless we destroy ourselves first.
Looking forward to this technology coming to Wichita, Kansas.
Egyptian Red Sea is not good enough. No big waves. Egyptian Mediterranean is certainly a good place to have.
can you possibly get your camera people to hold the camera steady for long enough to actually see it? and if they can do that, can you get your editors to not cut away to a different shaky shot after 1.5 seconds?
I love to see this technology tested in Wisconsin, along the shores of Lake Michigan.
what does the phrase "renewable energy" even mean? The energy itself is just that – energy. It's not "renewable" no matter how you split it. The device isn't "renewable" either. Its gonna rust out and be tossed in the landfill soon as well. Modular nuclear powerplants are where its at. I like the idea of harvesting energy from earth processes, but their usefulness extends to edge cases. We either need to develop highly efficient sources of mass power (i.e. nuclear) or go back to horse and buggy. Seems anything in-between is just 6th grade science experiments.
Ten years ago I had the opportunity to achieve a study to optimizing a wave energy converter quite similar to this one, but we could not get financiation to build it. I am glad that our idea was not so crazy and someone else can bring it to the reality.
Someone's gonna complain that they're eyesores and ruin it for everyone.
Seems like little gain for what it takes but not sure
While it looks neat, I'm sure it's instantly dwarfed by nuclear.
Seriously, we need to go back to nuclear. The modern, safe kind.
Anything to get away from fossil fuels, especially oil
I'm down for having those things. 50% ain't too bad. They said one floater powers 10 households. What if those households have electric cars? And can we use the electricity for electrolysis instead so that we can make clean hydrogen from the water also.
The floaters look like they are metal. Seems like they should be made of fiberglass since sea water is so corrosive to metal.
way too bulky and looks like we would have to recycle cars to build these. I think current tech used to harvest water energy is good enough
I’d love to see more of them!
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Great keep going
So is CNET trying to steal the ‘N’ from the Apple News logo? lol
Maybe there is hope after all 🙂 what an innovation
Awesome. Can't call it a floater though.
You could put them off the east and left coast of America
People will love it
cool
Hydraulic oil fluid leaked into the water. Another brilliant idea from the greenies.
During this whole video, no one mentioned how much energy these things are actually producing or how much it costs in $/kwh. Until you see those figures, you can consider this greenwashing.
Can’t we just get Gooble Boxes already?
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Floating Point Operation, literally