These Floaters Convert Waves into Renewable Energy 🌊⚡
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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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The side to side tension must be crazy & I wonder if they tested buoys and how that went
This techs been around for over a decade.… So what’s the issue??? Investment, governments go for large scale developments like nuclear or previously gas and coal etc as it brings in more bids for the subsidies.
Window dressing.
What an eye soar
How would this system take into account for calm days?
This system looks like a maintenance nightmare. As soon as all those greasable joints get attacked by the salt water, the efficiency would drop substantially.
Floating Point Operation, literally
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Can’t we just get Gooble Boxes already?
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.
Hydraulic oil fluid leaked into the water. Another brilliant idea from the greenies.
cool
You could put them off the east and left coast of America
People will love it
Awesome. Can’t call it a floater though.
Maybe there is hope after all 🙂 what an innovation
So is CNET trying to steal the ‘N’ from the Apple News logo? lol
Great keep going
Salt + 1 year
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I’d love to see more of them!
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
The floaters look like they are metal. Seems like they should be made of fiberglass since sea water is so corrosive to metal.
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.
Anything to get away from fossil fuels, especially oil
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.
Seems like little gain for what it takes but not sure
Someone’s gonna complain that they’re eyesores and ruin it for everyone.
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.
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.
I love to see this technology tested in Wisconsin, along the shores of Lake Michigan.
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?
Egyptian Red Sea is not good enough. No big waves. Egyptian Mediterranean is certainly a good place to have.
Looking forward to this technology coming to Wichita, Kansas.
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.
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.
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.