‘Artificial Blowhole’ Generates Wave Energy for 1 Year
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The UniWave200, a device that converts wave energy into electricity using an artificial version of a blowhole, just completed a one-year test producing energy off the coast of King Island, Australia. We talked to the CEO of Wave Swell Energy, the company behind the project, to find out how it went, what they learned, and what comes next.
0:00 Intro
0:27 How the Artificial Blowhole works
1:05 One year progress report
2:32 Environmental impact
4:00 Benefits of producing clean power
4:46 Outro
How this ‘artificial blowhole’ aims to make wave energy mainstream
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All these Renewables are great if you’re willing to significantly reduce living standards!
Anyway amazing
Could the electricity produced be doubled by adding a turbine (water resistant) on the blow hole as well as the suction side?
It’s the most ineffective way of getting energy.
You seriously have to get a diesel powered $5 million boat to go out and service the bloody thing.
With a turbine that small there’s no way it produces a large enough charge to make it viable…
Lets head to the comments to see what the REAL Experts have to say. Shall we?
As some others have commented, apparently this system averages 40kW of output for around 20 hours a day.
For reference, that’s the equivalent of about 160 kW of solar panels that generate electricity for 5 hours a day (~800 panels, which is roughly $200k).
To store the 800 kWh that this system would generate each day (to then use over the remaining 15 hours, you’d need 600kWh of battery storage, which is about 50 Tesla Powerwalls (~$500,000)
So if this unit could cost under a million, it just might have a future to replace solar/wind + batteries in some coastal areas. Otherwise, it sounds like it would be easier to just buy the solar and batteries.
already made some notes on how it can be made better for a more effective pull of the water sucking air in the turbine, lttle stuff to the tunnle it self but besides that really placement is everything on this you can turn it two inches one way and it does nothing and turn it the other and suddly you have a 52–53 % energy efficiency pull. i can help do the same on one or two percent here and there but in long runs that adds up to more power in turn more money abd development for thoese who very well need this.
im not anyone special just i know what your doing and i used to use red cupa doing the samw at the beach. people thought it was cool how no matter the waves size i got a water spour to shoot up. pressure. and that has a whole world of tricks, ever heard of the telsa water value, think that mans gift then is for yall now it help it greatly.
Will be excellent when scaled up and paired with solar. Most of the time when your solar panels don’t work during the day its because of clouds. Clouds mean weather. Weather means more waves.
Would a massive fly wheel and a piston work as a wave genorator?
I have created a bong using that a same concept and it’s efficiency is second to none. My bongs can power the world
two words: NUCLEAR ENERGY
We’re better off developing thorium nuclear power plants.
Interesting tech, I would be concern with the amount of rusting parts that could be seen, but also could it be built into the sea wall?
I have a design for a wave energy generator. I need help getting it to the correct people.
Your key measurement is a useless number.
2:17 why does this shot look so fake?
me ex wife had an ‘Artificial Blowhole’ .….…..
High voltage and water…what could go wrong?
Got waves crashing round 100% of Britain take away the beaches you’ve still got 75% of the coast line that is rugged.
They could have some thing like that on the shore where the waves crash. That creates energy
What a con. That expensive, concrete monstrosity efficiently produced only about two hundred dollars of electricity per day. At fifty percent efficiency, that means there is only four hundred dollars of energy to even be had. This is pollution, not technology.
This is a terrible idea. Anyone who’s been around a marine invioment knows the maintenance or aging of the vessel is a factor, not to mention hurricanes. But built into a seawall or breakwater that’s going to be built anyway sounds intriguing, the turbine on the top of the wall could be serviced much easier. A long line of them with no short-term maintenance on the wall.
Why not put a turbine on the intake of water so that way they could capture energy from both strokes
Hey, how efficient is nuclear energy? How clean is it? Oh, ok.
This is great. I like this better than wind and solar.
95% of the work’s done but they are still pushing hard to tame and squeeze that one blow at 1:25 that holds they key to free energy.
This is cool. Non-stop 24x7 40kw generator. Seems like two units side by side would be able to generate full-time inward pressure for the turbine rather than half-time.
You can always count on people debating prototypes like idiots.
I’d like to see more about Geothermal energy in general and in the EU specifically. I do believe Geothermal has a future in the US as well, but that is highly dependent upon how long it will take people in authority to pull their collective heads out of their own behinds and lock their own greed into a nice closet someplace.
Still nowhere close to the efficiency of fossil fuels.
How can so many professionals have it wrong.
how much did you generate vs. cost?/ How long would you expect a unit to last/
Lots of weasel words, and no concrete data.
The cost of this was 100 million +
They are called “oscillating water columns” and they are quite old
Considering this is still a prototype i wonder what addition would the production model have?
Optimized interior? Optimized shape and size of turbine?
This tech has a KEY beneficial characteristic — minimal contact with Sea Water!!! So they get the benefits without corrosion problems…
Did the presenter really say the availability of solar was 90%? I am an huge solar energy fan, but let’s not exaggerate.
1:10 Efficiency is totally irrelevant. It doesn’t matter if it captures 1% of the wave energy or 100% of the wave energy, unless you are in the situation where you have run out of waves. It’s not like a non-renewable resource where if you make it more efficient you can use less oil. What matters is how much total energy it captures for how much cost, and how consistent that generation is, i.e. does it generate all the time or only on rough sea day, so you need backup batteries and / or generators.
waterwheels
how loud is the uniwave 200?
The use of large boulders hollowed out with this blowhole technology for generating energy has many uses and would make the shoreline look more natural and might be cheaper . Off shore it could be used to generate hydrogen of ammonia and collected by ships .
what would a fifth grader with a back of an envelope say?
Genius way to design a OWC and dodging the problem of wave frequency and bandwidth by storing potential energy.
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