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Sweden’s CorPower has announced “breakthrough” results from Atlantic ocean testing of its full-scale floating generators, which cleverly time their motions to amplify smaller waves while protecting themselves against dangerous storm conditions.Continue… Continue reading Video: Wave-amplifying generator bounces twice as high as the swells
Wave energy remains one of the least-exploited clean energy options, with huge potential as part of a green energy grid. Finland’s AW Energy is preparing to field a contender at scale – the Waveroller – which sits on the sea bed generating up to 1 MW.C… Continue reading WaveRoller sea-floor generator approaches commercial deployment
Ships can become mobile wave energy converters, say Chinese researchers, using “heaving oscillators” that draw power from heaving, rolling and pitching movements as they move through the sea, while also acting as motion dampers to improve safety.Contin… Continue reading “Heaving oscillators” use wave power to extend shipping range
Researchers at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have developed an unusual way to harvest wave power, with a gently rolling cylinder designed around the triboelectric effect that causes static shocks after you walk on certain carpets.Con… Continue reading Fur-lined double-barrel generator harvests energy from slow waves
Sweden’s Eco Wave Power has been proving its relatively simple, jetty-mounted wave energy devices for at least 10 years now, and has now inked a conditional deal for a 77-megawatt installation in Turkey – the world’s largest wave power plant.Continue R… Continue reading Eco Wave Power signs concession for world’s largest wave power station
This remarkable desalination device, made from 170,000 recycled plastic bottles, runs on mechanical power from waves as it floats in the ocean, and creates up to 13,000 gallons (53,000 liters) of fresh water a day – while discharging far less concentra… Continue reading Wave-powered buoys vastly reduce the ecological cost of desalination
Scotland’s AWS Energy has reported results some 20% better than predicted for its Archimedes Waveswing, a prototype wave energy generator that’s been undergoing ocean-based testing at the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) in Orkney for the last six … Continue reading “Telescoping can” wave energy device beats test predictions by 20%
Irish company OceanEnergy has already tested its oscillating water column generators at significant scale in Hawaii, and it’s just signed on to a four-year project to test, validate and commercialize its biggest unit yet off Orkney, in Scotland. The OE… Continue reading Giant, megawatt-scale wave energy generator to be tested in Scotland
The UniWave sea platform is an artificial blowhole that harvests energy from ocean waves. Independent analysts now predict it’ll create some of the cheapest renewable energy on the market – and some of the most reliable and predictable, as well.Continu… Continue reading Blowhole wave energy could soon be world’s cheapest clean power
A new class of elastic energy converters is emerging, with the ability to capture energy from a variety of different motions. The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is pushing to deploy them, first in a series of strange, bendy wave energy des… Continue reading Elastic, robotic generators open up strange new energy capture ideas