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[[Image:Braking Wave.jpg|300px|right]]In [http://seasteading.org/seastead.org/commented/paper/infra.html#Wave_Power the book] is a nice collection of ways to get energy from waves.
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[[Image:Braking Wave.jpg|300px|right]]In [http://seasteading.org/seastead.org/book_beta/Power.html#wavepower the book] is a nice collection of ways to get energy from waves.
  
 
* [http://www.freepatentsonline.com/4216655.html Patent for a wave-operated power plant] with more links to other patents.
 
* [http://www.freepatentsonline.com/4216655.html Patent for a wave-operated power plant] with more links to other patents.

Revision as of 18:28, 21 March 2009

Braking Wave.jpg

In the book is a nice collection of ways to get energy from waves.

  • The energy you can get from waves is (according to Wikipedia):

Wave Energy.png

ρ = water density (1020 to 1029 kg·m-3 for Seawater)
g = gravity acceleration (9.81 m/s2)
H = wave height

Videos

The West Wave Project
Wave Hub, 10 miles off Hayle on north coast of Cornwall
Pelamis Wave Energy Converter
By Pelamis Wave Power
CETO - SeaPowerPlan invention
Hypalon bladders are affixed to a piston that moves inside a tube secured to the seabed.
Google Tech Talk
On wave energy and Pelamis

Links


Energy
Hydrothermal · OTEC · Wave Power · Currents · Osmotic Power · Energy Storage · Micro-grid · Biofuel · Wind turbines · Kites · Photovoltaics · Nuclear